Senior Analyst Consultant

As Senior Analyst your role will include:

• Using operational analysis approaches to deliver impactful insights to their clients.
• Taking a consultative approach to your work, understanding how your work contributes to delivering a great result for clients.
• Experience eliciting requirements and defining business process in complex environments
• Using agile approaches to develop models and tools, including requirements capture, design, development, testing and management.
• Collating, managing, structuring, analysing, presenting, and visualising data.
• Deriving unique insights from data to inform senior-level decision making.
• Producing internal and external presentations and reports to summarise processes, findings, recommendations, and decision analysis results.
• Delivering high quality analysis and outputs.
• Taking a leading role in the day-to-day delivery of projects, working closely with clients and the company’s team of consultants and analysts.

The role as a Senior Analyst will require a blend of working from the office, travel to client sites, and working from home.

Our client is looking for a positive, flexible self-starter to join their team as a Senior Analyst. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in delivering analysis capability as an integral part of a small, agile and growing business.

Our client’s team of analysts, consultants and Defence SMEs work closely with their customers to deliver high-impact services and solutions. Data science and operational analysis are a key part of their company’s capability. They are growing this capability and are looking for a highly motivated and capable Senior Analyst.

Our client is looking for candidates with a strong defence background with excellent data analysis or operational analysis skills. They seek customer facing individuals with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Experience working with Dstl, Defence Digital, DE&S, Frontline Commands or UK Defence industry.

Experience /Qualifications - Senior Defence Analyst:

The following skills and experience will enable you to excel in this role:

• Operational analysis approaches and techniques
• Advanced Excel skills, including VBA
• Data analysis and data science
• Operational analysis
• Experience working within UK MoD, strong defence background.
• Stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering and process design.
• A self-starter and team player.
• Good communication skills, enabling you to work confidently with team members and clients.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to multi-task and prioritise your work.
• Attention to detail and the drive to see work through to completion.
• A positive and flexible approach to your work.
• Degree, MSc or equivalent experience

Knowledge and experience of the following is desirable:

• Decision making techniques and processes.
• Operating models and organisational design.
• Software development using Python.
• Knowledge of current software development approaches, platforms and best practice.
• Experience of Microsoft365, SharePoint, PowerBI, Dataverse and PowerApps solutions.
• Recent UK Defence Security Clearance (SC) would be of interest but is not essential.