Curious about data. Eager to analyse it. Determined to transform it.

Analytics & Insights Manager (Assurance)

*Internally this role is known as a Risk & Assurance Analytics Manager

£45,000 - £50,000 (+ Benefits)

Reports to: Head of Assurance

Department: Chief Operating Office

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office). We are open to flexible working requests.

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Closing date: 20 January #removed#:55.

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact as soon as possible.

Recruitment process: One competency-based interview with an exercise included

Interview date: 29 and 30 January 2025

How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

This is an opportunity to join Cancer Research UK's Assurance department which is essential to our Sustain Strategy and brings together several teams: Safeguarding, Fundraising Compliance, Health & Safety, and Retail Profit Protection & Compliance. The purpose of Assurance is to champion compliance and protect the charity by ensuring that regulatory & legislative requirements are met and understood across our 600+ shops, 2,500+ staff in our offices and labs and beyond in our community of volunteers and fundraisers which enables us to be an inclusive, sustainable, and agile organisation.

A key part of our strategy is to improve our processes, tools, ways of working, and governance so that our staff have the right tools and skills they need to do their best work, and the charity is as cost-effective and well-run as we can be. Whilst our current data sets support informing the strategic direction of the Assurance department and managing risks across the organisation, we want to do this better. Therefore, we're looking for a Reporting & Analytics Manager to help us by building up, maintaining, and overseeing the critical data reporting and analysis requirements within the Assurance team. This will involve developing and implementing a coordinated data strategy in partnership with the General Counsel and Company Secretariat function. In this role you will partner with stakeholders both across the Assurance team and wider organisation to source and translate complex data to drive insights, strategic thinking, practical solutions, and tangible action; ultimately helping us more proactively understand and better manage risk to safeguard the charity.

This is a newly created role for you to shape, meaning you'll have the opportunity to drive and influence how we deliver this change and its scope. If you are an experienced Analytics & Insights professional who has built Power BI reports and the creativity to create and improve reporting processes, & systems, dashboards, and best practices, we would love for you to join our mission.

What will I be doing?

Setting up the foundations for and owning Risk & Assurance Analytics by translating complex data into actionable insights and analysis. This role will focus on two key areas:

1: Developing, delivering, and maintaining data reporting and analysis requirements within the Assurance department:

• Partnering with teams across the Assurance department (i.e., Safeguarding, Fundraising Compliance, Health & Safety, and Profit Protection & Compliance teams) to proactively understand and manage risk.
• Leading on the design and development of automated data reporting to create a holistic overview of Assurance and inform decision making.
• Analysing, owning, and shaping large datasets across retail, incident reports, assurance, risk, legal, and compliance to identify trends, exceptions, key insights, and demonstrate performance against indicators.
• Ensuring that source data and reporting outputs are validated and accurate.
• Using analysis to format, produce, and present accessible data dashboards, graphs, charts, and visualisations appropriate to the audience
• Using analysis to tell a story that provides assurance or helps to improve risk management and compliance.
• Making decisions and recommendations to leadership and escalating where appropriate.
• Providing written and verbal reports to the Head of Assurance and other stakeholders (e.g., Leadership, Trustees, monthly people operational risk committee etc).
• Using future-based thinking to proactively innovate and develop new approaches for data manipulation, analysis, and reporting to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our risk management.
• Partnering within the General Counsel and Company Secretariat department to develop and implement a coordinated data strategy.
• Undertaking other tasks as necessary to contribute to the success of the Assurance team, the objectives of the General Counsel and Company Secretariat function, and Cancer Research UK's strategy.

2: Setting up reporting processes for Retail Profit Protection & Compliance:

• Developing and implementing data for stock management systems and counting processes for the annual accounts.
• Sourcing and manipulating large / complex datasets for transactions and stock management across 600+ stores.
• Identifying exceptions and trends while enabling effective and efficient completion of periodic Stock Take and Perpetual Inventory activities.

  • This will include setting up counts and reporting on any Stock Loss Variances.

• Managing and enhancing the Retail Audit Tracker by:

  • Collating site compliance visit reports and data.
  • Recording and monitoring the completion of outstanding actions.
  • Providing reporting on key metrics.

• Monitoring and collating incident reporting ensuring to escalate concerns and allocate incident investigations to the relevant stakeholders.

What skills will I need?

• Experienced Insights & Analytics professional who has built, developed, and maintained data reporting processes, systems, dashboards and best practices in large, complex organisations.

  • We're open to applicants from different industries e.g., Risk & Compliance, Assurance, HR, Retail, and Charities etc.

• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail with a proven ability to assess data and trends using both quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques.
• Has built Power BI reports from scratch with the technical skills required to execute data extraction, mining, and reporting.
• Significant experience producing insightful analytics with the ability to identify and draw out relevant insights to drive and influence decisions and actions.
• Strong prioritisation and organisation skills with the ability to work independently while managing multiple tasks and delivering to deadlines with strong attention to detail.
• Continual drive and creativity to improve processes, systems, and best practices.
• Has built credible and collaborative stakeholder relationships with experience influencing at all levels (including leadership) and excellent verbal and written communication.
• Comfortable working as part of a virtual/ hybrid team and highly proficient with MS Office suite.

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.

Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination

Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism

Human: Act to have a positive impact on people

Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively

We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

If you're interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we'd still love to hear from you.

What will I gain?

We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.

You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.

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