Data & Systems Analyst

Your team:
You’ll be working within the Business Process team that sits within the wider Publishing Operations department. We are a friendly and collaborative team, responsible for analysis and specification of development and improvements in business processes. As a result, we get to work with colleagues from across all areas of the company in order to understand their ways of working. One of our key roles is to gather requirements from around the business for how Biblio can be developed to better suit our working practices and drive efficiency.

Your role:
As the Data & Systems Analyst, you will apply data analytics expertise to Biblio, our central bibliographic and workflow tool, in order to maximise its configuration potential and help us deliver change management projects across the business.

Your key responsibilities:

• Provide data-analysis function for the Business Process team so that insight can inform change-management projects across the business

• Perform data-mapping and data-cleansing activities, as required, to support key operational projects

• Develop and apply an understanding of the data architecture in our Biblio system (including cost templates, sales and royalty templates, production schedules, print scales, and P&Ls) in order to work with the Business Process Manager to make recommendations for best practice for its ongoing updates and maintenance

• Be a key advisory for Biblio data and how it interfaces with other Business Systems (e.g., Vista, SAP)

• Be an in-house expert for key touch points between Biblio and our primary data-visualisation tool, Tableau

• Work with stakeholders to help launch a programme of automated Biblio regression testing using data-driven results

• Be an in-house expert for Biblio Digital Asset Management System: make configuration changes to the DAM application and infrastructure when necessary.

Essential experience and knowledge you’ll need to succeed:

• Excellent problem-solving/analytical skills

• Proficiency with the Microsoft suite, especially Excel (including formulas, functions, pivots, and preferably macros)

• Attention to detail and accuracy

• Effective communication and collaboration abilities

• Persuasive and passionate about data quality.

Desirable skills we’d love you to have:

• Project management experience

• Process mapping

• Influencing capability

• Experience of using Biblio at another publishing house.

What you’ll get in return:
In return we can offer you a range of great projects, a supportive and collaborative working environment as well as a competitive salary and benefits package.

Starting salary: £35,000

Closing date: 26 July 2024

Some of the benefits we offer:

• 28 days annual leave increasing with years of service + bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme
• Discounted private medical insurance
• Group income protection scheme
• Enhanced family pay and leave
• Flexible working hours and summer hours (early finish on a Friday during summer months)
• 2 volunteer days per year
• Faith day
• 75% off all Macmillan books and regular staff book sales (highly reduced rates)
• Season ticket loan/advance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on shopping, Tastecard+ and gym memberships; Christmas club savings
• Daily free breakfast and monthly company lunch

This is a full time, permanent, and will be based in our offices in Farringdon, London, with some flexibility to work from home each week.

All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to live and work in the UK in order to be considered for this role.

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