Finance Data Specialist

Job Description

Business Unit: Financial Control, FinanceSalary range: up to circa £52,500 DOELocation: FlexibleContract Type: PermanentLooking for data evangelists!Virgin Money is all about disrupting the status quo, taking on the challenges of the future, and saying goodbye to boring banking. Were on the lookout for like-minded individuals and innovators like you to help push us forward. Were also transforming howwe work to give our colleagues more choice, control and flexibility to live and work how they choose with A Life More Virgin.Heres what it means for YOU:

• 38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if part-time)
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• A 35-hour working week
• 20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market leading Pension & Private Medical Insurance
• Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And you get these Red-Hot Rewards from day one!This role is at the more senior level of expertshere, were looking for specific experience in particular applications, coding, visualisation, data engineering, reporting and MI production. We have two roles at this level. Were looking for genuine self-managingprofessionals here - people who understand what might be possibleYou could be building new datastores, automating data transformation and reporting, creating new applications for insight or all of the above at the same time. We will mostly be working agile, with a long backlog of work that wed like to handle. So, whilstwe know what well be doing this week, its entirely like that our plans will change from quarter to quarter.Day to day, youll be doing one or more of the following

• Building new reporting applications for customers across Finance
• Preparing and creating trusted data using SAS, SQL or similar tools
• Rapid prototyping of tools that make the most of the data we can gather
• Create robust production-quality applications
• Deliver data quality improvements within and outside Finance
• Make our data controls stronger and change those of the Group for the better
• Provide continuous support for the existing services that we provide
• Building a data control framework within Financial Control
• Role modelling great data practice for our Finance colleagues
• Carry out regular data tasks
• Represent the Financial Control function in data strategy sessions
• Training non-specialists to love data the way that you do

The team youll be joining has had lots of skilled people in lots of different disciplines - ranging from former summer school drama teacher, tennis umpire, mum, SQL experts, central banking economist, singers, central bankers, football coach, statisticalmodelling experts, dad, econometricians, service personnel, rocket scientists, cooks, farmers, golfers, taxi drivers. We speak at least four languages, have been on television lots and live all over the country. Some of us work 9-5 and others dont work Wednesdays.We love working a Life More Virgin (and not always at home or in the office).The team will be relied on for technical excellence and reliable outputs so quality assurance and attention to detail are key to how we work so well together. Our outputs are seen by our exec, our board, our shareholders, our customers and the whole world.We already own a robust process that runs without fail every month and we fit perfectly into the wider reporting cycles of the Group when we need to.What we need from you for these roles are

• Specific application experience.
  • We need you to be highly proficient in Tableau/Power Bi or SAS/SQL. You will be the expert in the room and will be making decisions on behalf of us all.
• Experience of determining priorities
  • You will be expected to participate in the planning process as well as to deliver work.
• An understanding of the value of data quality and practical experience of improving it
  • We want to drive the move for the Group to better data quality management from the inside
• A love of innovation
  • Our work will largely be new and our solutions driven by value, rather than process. This will mean that often we will need some imagination.

What we would like you to have

• Experience of the Groups data infrastructures.
  • All knowledge welcome but more is better
• Understanding of existing Finance processes
  • Were looking to add to what we do and need people who recognise the opportunities
• An idea of where youd like to go next
  • Our team is a great place to stay. But it can also be the steppingstone to all sorts of other opportunities. We will be an intersection between Finance and Data, Risk and Commercial.

We would really like to hear from people for whom this sounds like nearly the right role, but not quite. If its not the role for you, well tell you, but well also try to explain why not and what you might need to do if this is to be your next role ornext role but one. Well describe the journeys that weve been on to get here and why we love this role most of the time.We do have roles at different levels, including roles where potential is more important than experience, and we do have more junior roles at the moment. Even though were using SAS and SQL, we like using new technologies and want to be the front of the queuefor the new Azure toolkit if we can. To be honest, we also quite like Excel.Inclusion at Virgin MoneyInclusion is at the heart of everything we do here at Virgin Money. Its good for you, its good for us and its amazing for our customers. We know that great minds dont think alike, so we rely on your diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgroundsto be the best we can possibly be. Got any questions about this or need some support with your application Wed love to hear from you so get in touch with our careers team at . Now the legal bitLiving A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to