Impact Futures UK and The Childcare Company have a brand new opportunity for a BI Analyst to join the team on a permanent, full time basis.

This is a remote/hybrid working role, working from home with travel required to our Birmingham office

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our BI Team and to work for a fast-growing organisation. You will be responsible for providing reporting to our senior leadership team and business, whilst also creating bespoke reports for our directors and senior leaders.

This is a remote working role with required weekly travel to our Birmingham office.

You will be dealing with existing reports, and creating new and bespoke ones, and providing analysis on them. Currently reporting is within Excel & Powerbi, driven from our MIS and E-Portfolio Systems. We have moved to PowerBi as our data visualization tool and need an expert to carry us further along our journey.

The perfect candidate for the job will be a self-motivated and confident team member with excellent analytic skills and an out-of-the-box thinking approach. You will be comfortable using statistically robust methods to support the story telling and highlight:

Cause and effect
Trends and forecasts
Warning flags or opportunities
Relationships between data sets

You will be confident with different formats and unstructured data sets, and be eager to understand the data from different perspectives. We are looking for an effective communicator with senior stakeholders across different departments.

You will take initiative and be enthusiastic about generating ideas, completing projects, sharing knowledge or supporting teams and stakeholders. You will have strong PowerPoint skills to present the data and insight stories to audiences in a visually engaging way.

The Role

– Creating PowerBi dashboards and maintaining/developing existing dashboards.
– Preparing and analysing complex datasets
– Producing internal and external reporting streams and insight to various stakeholders/clients
– Deriving intelligence from many and varied data sources
– Maintaining and improving datasets and processes
– Responding to stakeholder queries in a fast-paced environment
–  Analysing local, national, and global trends that impact both the organisation and the industry

You’ll be joining a leading national training provider at an exciting time of growth and expansion, working in a fun and supportive environment in an organisation with a strong focus on people and culture.
Expect regular catch-ups and socials with your team, surprises in the post and company-wide social events- we’re a friendly bunch.

The Benefits
– 25 days holiday plus public and bank holidays
– 3 additional days of paid leave for Christmas Shut down
– Volunteer day
– Enhanced Sick Pay
– BUPA Healthcare Cashback plan
– Enhanced Maternity paid leave
– Enhanced Paternity paid leave
– Grandparent paid leave
– Bereavement paid leave
– Life Assurance
– Refer a friend bonus
– Birthday day off
– 3% pension contribution using pension provider NEST
– Shopping discount & cash back platform
– Refer a friend bonus
– Employee Financial Wellbeing support
– Buy an additional 5 days annual leave
– TOTUM Pro student discount card
– Employee Assistance Helpline
– Company events and social gatherings
– Appreciation gifts

About you

Essential
– Advanced Power BI user (2+ years’ experience)
– Experience handling large datasets
– Advanced Excel skills
– Experience with SQL.
– Effective presentation and communication skills
– Self-motivated with a problem-solving mindset
– Strong IT and mathematical skills

Desirable
–  Experience of CRM/MIS and E-Portfolio systems
–  Previous experience in funding/compliance or apprenticeships
–  Azure Databricks/Python

About Us
– Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are some of the UK’s largest independently owned training providers, delivering apprenticeships and vocational qualifications.
– Our expertise is underpinned by our Ofsted Grade 2 ‘Good’ accreditation, and learner-centric delivery is at the heart of our continual operational evolution to ensure our learners receive an outstanding learning journey.
– Impact Futures and The Childcare Company are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitability qualified persons regardless of their race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
– We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS check will be required for this role.