Senior Data Analyst

Salary: £44,000 - 84,000 per year

Requirements:

• Completion of A level studies is essential.
• Degree-level education is desirable.
• At least two years experience in a professional services environment, ideally within the accountancy or legal sectors.
• Experience working on large-scale projects and in project management.
• Experience in Data Quality, Remediation, and Data Management programmes.
• Strong proficiency in the Microsoft Power Platform suite, with the ability to build applications for internal use.
• Experience with Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, pipelines, dataflows, and pySpark.
• Strong SQL skills, including advanced T-SQL, functions, stored procedures, and SQL Agent jobs.
• Ability to develop Power BI reports.
• Competent in Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Teams.
• Experience with Elite3E, MS Teams, SmartSheets, and data management tools.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Purview is an advantage.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and the ability to challenge assumptions where necessary.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, organisational, and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to cope with conflicting demands, meet deadlines, and remain calm under pressure.
• A proactive, self-starting, and problem-solving approach.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and uphold our values with integrity and tact.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse and interpret requests for improvements in data-related processes and data change requests.
• Discuss requests with senior colleagues where necessary and identify business impacts.
• Advise on change management and identify when larger-scale project management is required.
• Provide high-level advisory support on business processes and data management.
• Define the mapping and synchronisation of shared reference data across systems.
• Provide solutions and proposals to support data integrations.
• Develop and maintain data quality dashboards and data dictionaries for Critical Data Elements.
• Work with stakeholders to analyse data, provide reporting solutions, identify root causes of process dysfunction, and advise on remediation.
• Contribute to the design of data models for BI, reporting tools, and enterprise reuse.
• Promote our Data Standards and Data Governance Policy.
• Contribute to process design and participate in cross-functional programme workstreams.
• Design and develop data transformation and loading processes for data models and architecture.
• Identify opportunities to improve data capture processes and system integration.
• Monitor data quality reports and work with data owners to agree remedial actions.
• Document data lifecycles and their relationship to business processes.
• Identify new data sources and methods to improve data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Create and develop wireframe solutions.
• Create and maintain database solutions using Microsoft Power Platform tools and SQL databases.
• Introduce and maintain data quality tools.

Technologies:

• Azure
• Excel
• Fabric
• Support
• Microsoft Power Platform
• MS Teams
• Network
• Power BI
• PySpark
• SQL
• Cloud
• Architect
• Business Intelligence
• Data Warehouse

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We are Saffery LLP, an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax, and VAT services. Founded in 1855, we are the UKs 15th largest accountancy firm and a proud member of Nexia, an international network of independent accounting and consulting firms. We offer a 35-hour working week, hybrid working with up to three days from home, core hours of 10-4, and excellent benefits including a contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, life assurance, flexible benefits, family-friendly policies, and eligibility for our Profit-Sharing Plan. We are committed to ED&I and value a friendly, collaborative culture where people know your name, not just your job title.

last updated 33 week of 2026