Data Analyst - Leeds
About the Role
We are seeking a data-first Data Analyst to join the team, with a strong focus on shaping and evolving our clients reporting and analysis capabilities. This is a role where your work will start small, with a strong foundation in data, and grow as you help departments unlock insights and solve problems through smarter data usage.
You’ll collaborate closely with teams across the business, particularly marketing and other commercial functions, to understand their current reporting landscape, identify gaps, and help drive better data-informed decisions. You'll also be instrumental in training users and ensuring data is delivered in the right format for self-serve where appropriate.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary (£50k–£70k) depending on experience
- Opportunities to shape how data is used across a growing and data-literate organisation
- A collaborative and learning-focused environment
- Flexibility, with a requirement to be office-based regularly to work closely with business teams
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design of data models that engineers will implement, requiring a strong grasp of underlying data infrastructure and architecture
- Build and maintain scalable, accurate, and insightful reports and dashboards (mainly in Sigma or similar tools such as Power BI or Tableau).
- Partner with stakeholders (e.g., marketing, finance, operations) to understand their data needs and translate them into actionable solutions.
- Develop SQL queries and models to support reporting, analysis, and data transformation.
- Act as a conduit between business teams and the core data team to ensure delivery of relevant, clean, and structured data.
- Provide training to internal teams to increase effective use of BI tools and self-service capabilities.
- Identify data gaps or inefficiencies in current reporting and proactively offer solutions.
- Support initiatives related to natural language querying, making data more accessible across the business.
- Collaborate closely with Finance and Commercial teams, an analytical mindset with finance or business analysis experience is a plus.
About You
- Exposure to Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery, preferably Snowflake, with the ability to query these systems directly.
- Understanding of modern data architecture concepts including the medallion architecture, staged data from external sources, event streaming principles, and Cortex/ML chains.
- Strong SQL skills with experience in building data models.
- Experience with BI tools like Sigma, Power BI, Looker, or similar.
- Comfortable working in hybrid data/BA roles, gathering requirements, working with stakeholders, and iterating on outputs.
- Confident engaging with teams across departments, understanding and articulating their reporting needs.
- Ability to lead the design of analytical models with a clear understanding of how they will be built and deployed by engineers.
- Previous experience in a Finance Analyst, Business Analyst, or similar data-driven role is ideal.
- Exposure to natural language querying tools or approaches is a bonus.
- A hands-on, curious mindset, you're not just building dashboards, you're looking to understand the “why” behind the numbers.