Business Intelligence Analyst

Paragon Bank; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 28,000

Job description

Salary up to £28,000 - dependent upon experience

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Business Intelligence Analyst looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

Purpose of the role

The purpose of the role is to produce, analyse and interpret management information for use by all divisions across the Group.

Working within Group Finance, the Business Analytics function is responsible for data warehousing, reporting, analysing, and pricing for all Group activity. The role has a focus on delivering the Business Intelligence requirements to stakeholders across the Group.

The BI analyst will be solving reporting problems by extracting, analysing, and interpreting data from a variety of sources and producing data visualisations allowing the end user to self-serve.

Duties and responsibilities

• Design and develop automated solutions/systems to assist the business in its operation, using Power BI, Excel and the Microsoft SQL Server suite of products
• Analysing trends in the performance and behaviour of the Group’s loan assets based upon historical data
• Production of regular reporting which supports the financial month-end accounting process and the operational strategy
• Assist in projects on a wide range of Group initiatives
• Production of regular and ad hoc reporting solutions as and when requested by the business areas across the Group
• Producing analysis and insight to understand customer trends and behaviours and identify potential regulatory impacts on the Group's assets
• Provide recommendations to the business based on the results of analysis undertaken

About You

Skills

• Ability to analyse & understand datasets, and interpret and present results in a clear and concise manner
• Focus on using own initiative, and adopting a logical and systematic approach to work
• Strong commercial acumen
• Analytically focused & detail conscious
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team

Qualifications and experience
Experience within the Financial Services Industry, a background in SQL, Excel and Power BI, and a degree in a relevant discipline would be desirable.

Working hours
37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.00pm (one hour for lunch) - Hybrid role.

Training
Relevant training will be provided.

About Us

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.

Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long-term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave.

• Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate.
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees.
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension.
• Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment.
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more.
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year.
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.