Analyst

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Service Area: Place Management

Department: Business Intelligence

Bath and North East Somerset Council is at an exciting point in its data journey, with our corporate Business Intelligence team at its centre. As part of the Business Intelligence Development Team and working closely with the Performance Team, you will help us find new ways of working with data. Together we will use new tools and technologies to improve our use of data across a wide range of Council services. This new post will be working primarily with our Place Management Directorate (covering a diverse range of services from waste to highway maintenance, City Centre management, and the Clean Air Zone) to help unlock the value of their data to the organisation.

Much of the Council’s infrastructure is SQL based, with PowerBI and SSRS used for analytics, so familiarity with these systems is important, but there are a range of proprietary systems used and flexibility around disparate data sources is a must.

You will undertake a range of activities, from data extraction & transformation, to data modelling, analytics, and report building. This is a career graded role and we welcome applicants at all levels, whether you are early in your Business Intelligence career or offer more experience and specialisms. Training and support will be provided at all levels as part of a skills development framework. What is essential, however, is the ability to handle work with curiosity, in a friendly team moving towards Agile working practices.

Your main place of work will be the award-winning, modern Civic Centre in Keynsham, halfway between Bath and Bristol, easily accessible via car or public transport, with a train station 5 minutes’ walk away.

Why B&NES Council?

We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:

• A competitive salary package
• A range of flexible working and hybrid working options, including flexi-time, four regional offices and home-working, dependent on service requirements
• A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions
• The Local Government Pension Scheme
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme – whatever life throws at you; we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home
• Professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
• Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including cycle to work and free entry to numerous local attractions with B&NES

Interested to find out more?

If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact James Green on 01225 395407 or at james_green@bathnes.gov.uk

To apply

Please use the online application facility.

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Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose – to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be Bold, Empowered, Supportive and Transparent.

Please explain in your application how you could incorporate these values into the role you are applying for.

As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

Interview Date: 13/03/2023

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.

As this post involves working within one of these groups, we will require a Disclosure & Barring Service check and/or subscription to the DBS online service. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.

This is a Public Services Network (PSN) role and requires all successful applicants to undergo a Basic Disclosure check and a 3 year’s verification of employment history. Please note that any start date will be dependent on the receipt of a satisfactory Disclosure and verification of employment history.

Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.