Lead Analyst

Lead Analyst

London (Hybrid)

Up to £70,000

This is a great Lead Analyst opportunity for someone who wants ownership, visibility, and the chance to shape how analytics is delivered, not just maintain dashboards. You will be joining a growing function that is investing heavily in data transformation. There is real scope to influence strategy, improve reporting capability, and develop a team, while partnering closely with international recruitment and marketing stakeholders.

The Company:

A global education organisation supporting international students into university study across multiple destinations. They operate across recruitment, pathway programmes and wider student support services.

The Role:

This is a Lead Analyst role with a strong commercial lens. You will sit across recruitment and marketing, acting as the bridge between reporting, engineering and business stakeholders.

You will be responsible for:

  • Delivering pipeline, conversion and agent performance analysis
  • Owning BAU reporting and early stage forecasting
  • Improving and repurposing existing dashboards and analytics products
  • Translating stakeholder needs into clear specifications for data engineering and IT
  • Prioritising workload and managing expectations confidently
  • Coaching analysts and building team capability
  • Supporting a major data transformation programme including Microsoft Fabric, lakehouse architecture and Power BI
  • Leading reporting migration, validation and quality assurance
  • Contributing to early forecasting models, with longer term exposure to data science projects

What They Are Looking For:

  • Strong experience in analytics or BI roles with clear commercial exposure
  • End to end delivery of reporting or analytics projects
  • Confidence influencing senior stakeholders
  • Experience mentoring or managing junior analysts
  • Solid Power BI and SQL background, Fabric exposure is beneficial but not essential
  • Strong experience building data models end to end, and working in DAX

Job Details

Company
Harnham
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
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