Information Analyst

Description

ASA are currently recruiting for an Information Analyst to work for a public sector body within its busy intelligence and analysis team. They are looking for a technical specialist who can deliver a variety of cutting-edge analytical products that meet professional standards to support the organisation to be risk-based and intelligence led. The role is for a period of 6 months with a possibility of extension. The company are based in the DD1 area of Dundee and are currently operating a hybrid working model with attendance in the office flexible.

Duties include:
· Produce analytical reports and products to agreed timescales and professional standards
· Produce high quality statistical publications which meet the needs of a wide range of users both within the Care Inspectorate and outside
· Provide advice on statistical and analytical methods and be highly skilled in a range of associated software
· Develop new and innovative approaches to turning large quantities of operational data into valuable information assets and managing those assets to deliver valuable intelligence products
· Delivers high quality intelligence products that provide advice and recommendations to decision-makers

Essential skills, competences, qualifications and previous experience required:
Experience
· Providing a professional service with a significant level of autonomy
· Using a range of analytical methods to gain insight from complex data
· Apply your coding skills to access and manipulate large volumes of data from a variety of sources as well as identifying data inconsistencies and ensuring data quality
· Experience in most of the following:
o statistical analysis and reporting
o data science
o intelligence analysis
o data management
o performance measurement and reporting

Education/Qualifications
· Educated to Degree level of above in a subject with a significant numeric component

Skills and knowledge
· Advanced data, statistical and analytical skills
· Experienced user of statistical, query and data management software for ETL and reporting purposes (e.g. SAS, SPSS, SQL, DAX, R, Python)
· Previous use of business Intelligence tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableaux, IBM I2)
· Excellent data management and manipulation skills
· Understanding of data quality issues and validation techniques

Required level of Security Clearance/Background Check/Disclosure:
· Standard Disclosure

ASA Recruitment is one of Scotland’s largest independent multi-sector recruitment agencies. We specialise in providing effective tailored solutions for permanent, contract and temporary employment requirements for our Clients and Candidates. We are members of the REC and are ISO certified.

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