Companies House

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Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ

About the job

Job summary

Are you passionate about data analysis?

Do you enjoy enabling effective decision making?

Are you eager to make a tangible impact to an organisation’s strategic direction and help it build a thriving and future-ready workforce?

If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you to shine as a Senior Data Analyst (Workforce Planning)!

As a Senior Data Analyst (Workforce Planning) you’ll be at the helm of transforming how we manage and develop our most valuable asset – our people!

You’ll be the mastermind behind modelling and forecasting resourcing needs, analysing workforce trends to develop workforce planning strategies, ensuring we have the right people in the right jobs influencing the growth, efficiency and long-term success of Companies House.

You'll work with colleagues across the organisation to prepare us for the future. This will help us achieve our ambition to be the best registry in the world and deliver our new legal obligation to tackle economic crime.

You'll understand our people by developing ways to reliably collate and interpret data through analysis at a strategic and operational level to not only explain the internal narrative but also to provide market and industry intelligence.

You'll determine current supply and future demand, challenging assumptions while using scenario planning to develop robust workforce plans that make an impact and deliver overarching business objectives.

You'll work with autonomy, be encouraged to be adaptable, bold and curious and challenge the status quo to ensure we continue to improve the value we’re adding to the organisation.

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.

Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work

Job description

As a senior member of the team, you will provide strategic support to Companies House as an organisation to understand future workforce requirements and facilitate the Strategic Workforce Planning function. You will do this by: 

People Analytics: 

• Confidently articulating and presenting complex data and ideas to a range of stakeholders. 
• Working across our organisation to put in place robust data architecture and pipelines.
• Producing analytical insights, using statistical techniques, to evidence findings and produce recommendations.
• Using Excel, Power BI and other programmes to carry out analysis techniques on a holistic range of people metrics. 
• Possessing an eye for detail, and a proven ability to visualise data according to good practice and in a way that ensures the findings are easy to understand and interpret.
• Informing and contributing to the design of data collection methods for internal people metrics. 
• Through analysis, determining the root cause of current and emerging workforce issues, and drive improvements and innovation. 
• Using an agile approach, creating products of value iterating improvements over short sprints of time.

Workforce planning: 

• Developing workforce planning processes, including a range of forecasting models and frameworks to capture the information needed to Strategically Workforce Plan. 
• Strategically engaging our managers and leaders to develop robust Workforce Plans where our People Data informs decision making, currently and for the future. 
• Updating internal workforce planning practices and guidance, and upskilling colleagues with emerging trends and continuous improvement to increase Strategic Workforce Planning capability and maturity across Companies House. 
• Regular reporting of our workforce narrative, including wider HR transformation through robust products such as dashboards or other suitable visualisation tools to enable a culture of self-serve for our stakeholders to access the right people data at the right time. 
• Planning, preparing and delivering external workforce planning data submissions that require in-depth analysis. 
• Working with colleagues from a range of specialisms to gather insight on resource and capability and with senior managers and recruitment to use succession planning data to help fill key positions. 
• Gathering business-wide workforce planning insights that also considers robust challenge through internal and external benchmarking/ targets, identified via techniques such as PESTLE and/or SWOT. 
• Engaging with other departments and external employers to network and share knowledge and experience and incorporating this into your work in a continuous improvement fashion. 

Person specification

We are looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview. Please refer to the bullet points in bold below when writing your personal statement, including examples to evidence your level of skill. 

• Extensive data analysis experience to be able to forecast and model the future people data based on current and historic trends.
• Extensive data visualisation and reporting skills.
• Experience of operational data analysis tools and/or languages, such as Microsoft PowerBI, Business Objects and Alteryx. 
• The ability to understand wider business objectives and stakeholder needs such as our overarching strategies and business plans.
• Strong analysis skills with proven experience in analysing complex data from multiple sources to tell a compelling story.
• Excellent project management skills to effectively manage multi-strand and cross government projects.
• Impactful communication skills to consult and influence key stakeholders and also provide support and mentoring.
• Close attention to detail as data accuracy and protection are vital - you will champion our safe data principles.
• Autonomous working to tight deadlines through effective prioritisation of tasks and workload, managing stakeholder expectations.
• Good problem-solving skills to identify clear solutions.
• CIPD qualified, or a willingness to work towards this.

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Strategic Workforce Planning and Modelling
• HR Analytics Tools and Software
• Storytelling through Analytics
• Contextualising Data with Business Objectives

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £51,854, Companies House contributes £15,022 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we’re committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices. 

Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House. 

We celebrate diversity... 

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we’re representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers. 

We are proud to be a disability confident leader. Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few. We will be happy to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing recruitmentCH@companieshouse.gov.uk 

Where will you be working? 

You will be aligned to our Cardiff office, where we are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on business need, your role and your day-to-day work activities and will be discussed at offer stage.

Current Companies House employees located in regional offices are welcome to apply. Unfortunately, we are not accepting applications from external candidates for our regional locations.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Jon Shenton
• Email : jshenton@companieshouse.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitmentch@companieshouse.gov.uk

Further information

We welcome applications in Welsh / Rydym yn croesawi ceisiadau yn y Gymraeg.

Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of appointment on the basis of merit by fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact infopoint@companieshouse.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission .

info@csc.gov.uk

Civil Service Commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road SW1A 2HQ

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