About the Role
Waltham Forest's Business Intelligence service seeks a Performance Analyst to enhance data and analytics utilization for decision-making, improvement, and priority achievement. This role focuses on children's social care, producing data and analytics solutions like strategic assessments, performance reports, and statutory data returns to ensure timely and robust information for decision-making, resource targeting, and risk management.
Responsibilities
- Identifying user needs and translating them into data and analytics requirements.
- Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders, partners, and colleagues.
- Supporting and influencing within the team to achieve agreed priorities.
- Identifying, assessing, analyzing, and mapping appropriate data for new analytics products.
Requirements
- Proven experience in an analytical role.
- Experience with analytics or business intelligence tools (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Power BI, SQL).
- Strong communication skills and experience presenting analysis to senior audiences.
- Tenacity and ambition to drive innovation and improvement in data utilization.
- Ability to collaborate and build effective relationships across the organization and with partner agencies.
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Power BI
- SQL
- Data analysis
- Business intelligence
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Stakeholder management
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Internal applications only
Salary/Compensations
- PO2 £42,771 - £45,750
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements considered
- Good Work Standard employer accreditation
About the Company
- Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
- We are a highly ambitious borough, driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, developing new and innovative ways to build our communities.
- Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded.
- London Borough of Waltham Forest is a Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employer, committed to creating a healthy, fair, and inclusive workplace.
Equal Opportunity
- Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and integral to service delivery and employment.
- The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and works hard to respond to changing resident needs.
- We use statutory duties on race, gender, and disability equality, and best practice for age, faith, and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity.
- The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: promoting equality of opportunity, opposing all forms of discrimination, ensuring our workforce reflects diverse communities, and providing fair, appropriate, accessible, and excellent services.
- Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
- The council operates an anonymous shortlisting process to reduce bias in recruitment.
- Internal candidates are considered first for jobs graded up to SO2.
- We are keen to support employees to balance working life with other commitments and will consider flexible working arrangements where possible.
