National Highways Looking for Assistant Business Analyst at Birmingham Full Time

Your new role

Here at National Highways, we have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Business Analyst to join our Major Projects directorate. This role can be based from our Birmingham or Bedford offices with some travel as and when required for business needs and team meetings.

In this role, you will be supporting the workforce planning team/function and be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and assurance of data to produce timely performance reporting.

The successful candidate will need excellent attention to detail, with the ability to analyse and interpret large volumes of data.

What you will be leading on

1. Ensure that corporate workforce planning tools and systems are kept up to date; engage with the Workforce Planning team to process system updates to required deadlines, which in turn will support local workforce planning activities and enable accurate and timely reporting across the Directorate.
2. Proactively improve data quality; check, validate and reconcile information against different data sources, identifying and working to resolve discrepancies.
3. Work in partnership with the Human Resources team(s) to raise Service Tickets in order to support the administration and management of changes to workforce planning data.
4. Accurately manage and record changes to the approved workforce plan and the required approvals in line with corporate governance.
5. Support month-end reporting, carry out analysis and interpretation of complex workforce data against resourcing objectives, and identify trends and emerging issues to support accurate forecasting.
6. Lead on the collation and processing of weekly system requisitions awaiting approval, working with the Workforce Planning team to conduct appropriate levels of assurance and governance, recording, and tracking outcomes.
7. Contribute to the continuous development and improvement of performance reports, processes, and workforce planning services to ensure accuracy and consistency as well as high levels of customer service.

To be successful

• Previous business analysis experience working in a performance reporting environment
• Ability to assimilate, analyse and quality assure complex data from a range of sources
• Autonomous working to tight deadlines through effective prioritisation of workload whilst ensuring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to drive effective continuous process improvement to achieve organisational objectives
• Demonstrable experience of communicating with a range of stakeholders at different levels, and a strong customer focus

A bit about us

The Major Projects Delivery Services (MPDS) purpose is to make successful delivery outcomes possible through business level controls, developing professions and capability, maximising innovative thinking and being a critical friend.

About Us

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are:

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)

And finally

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