Junior Data Analyst

About Salary Finance

Working with employers, we provide a financial wellbeing platform as an employee benefit, helping employees to understand their money better, get out of debt faster and save for their future. We already have a reach of over 4,000,000 employees through our relationships with over 600 of the biggest companies in the UK. 

By improving employee financial wellbeing, we have a very real and meaningful impact on people’s lives. We remove the stress and worry associated with financial difficulties by dramatically reducing the interest rates employees pay on their personal debt, and provide them with the tools needed to start saving sooner and be more financially secure. We are backed by some of the biggest brands, including investments from Blenheim Chalcot (the UK’s leading venture builder), Legal and General (the FTSE 100 insurer and asset manager), Experian and Goldman Sachs, and funding partnerships with JP Morgan and Virgin Money. 

Launched in 2015, we have made excellent progress, and are scaling fast. We are named BITC’s Responsible Business of Year 2018, included in KPMG’s Global Fintech 100, listed top of the Forbes’ list of socially-responsible startups, and profiled by the Financial Times, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Telegraph, CityAM and the Institute of Directors. 

Your role in our mission

The Junior Data Analyst will be responsible for helping the team with the development and creation of day to day business reports and business analysis. They will work with business teams to help the business develop a deeper understanding of data and help provide insight into business performance as well as helping the business run operationally. They will work within the Business Intelligence team working with the other Analysts, Developers and Architects to help improve and build out the businesses reporting suite.

What you’ll do

• Interacting with staff to gather clear requirements and helping to prioritise these requirements.
• Create reports and reporting schemas and views to make data easily accessible for the wider organisation.
• Analytical support by coordinating data extraction from various databases and providing easy to digest interpretation. 
• Providing and maintaining clearly designed and easy to digest data visualisations, including dashboards and drill-down reporting
• Communicating the implications of the analysis to upper management and other relevant stakeholders clearly.
• Ensuring contractual reporting is sent promptly and accurately.
• Documenting reports and reporting systems and ensure existing documentation is up to date and exists for all regular and ad-hoc reporting
• Analyse data and translate findings into meaningful insights, integrating relevant business knowledge as well as learning from other projects/sources.
• Utilise data to explore and explain business drivers, performance and propositions.
• Adhere to good systems development methodology
• Ensure data integrity is maintained and checked with each new data model

About you

• You are passionate about technology and social impact, and want to help grow a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
• You are ambitious and want to become a member of a team committed to building end to end BI to transform the way a company acts
• You have an understanding of the Data Analytics function within FinTech.
• You have an analytical mind with problem solving aptitude.
• You have experience in stakeholder management, and translating technical language into business language.
• You are capable of presenting complex technical details, concepts and information in an easy to understand format.
• You have real enthusiasm to work in a fast growth startup – you will thrive if you are a self-motivated, fast-paced, action oriented, “roll your sleeves up and get-things-done” sort of person who wants to work in a small team where everyone makes a difference.
• You have a high tolerance for ambiguity and frequently changing priorities and a genuine can-do attitude.

Who you are

We embrace our differences but there’s one thing we like to share our values, so it’s important to us you are:

• fearless, and able to make the impossible possible.
• responsible, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
• dedicated and want to commit to an exciting journey even through the highs and lows.
• empathetic and truly care about every colleague and customer.
• united, because you understand we achieve more when we work as a team.
• humble, and take feedback as a way to continuously improve.
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What do you get for all your hard work?

• Company bonus scheme 💰
• 25 days holiday with an extra day off on your birthday 🎂
• Office first with up to a day a week working from home 🏢 
• Generous company benefits to include pension and life assurance and an annual allowance to spend on medical insurance, health cash plan, denplan, gym memberships 🤸
• Enhanced policies that are family and pet friendly, to include company sick pay and peternity leave 🐶
• Great career development in a fast paced environment 🚀
• Regular company socials (post covid, although we’ve got quite good at virtual ones too!)
• Volunteer days as part of our CSR program 🤝

More great perks to include weekly snacks, tuckshop, cycle to work, help to save and much more! 🍭

The interview process

• Phone call with our Talent Manager – 20 mins
• Video interview with Hiring Manager – 45 mins 
• Data & Competency Test with Presentation  – 60 mins 
• In person interview with Hiring Manager, Head of Department, Stakeholder, and / or Team –  30 mins 

We’re looking for people that will get stuck in and make a difference. We have a great collaborative, entrepreneurial team and are passionate about what we do. If you want to join a team that is changing people’s lives for the better then we’d love to hear from you.

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Salary Finance is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.