Job ref: 196456
TPR grade: R&O Grade 8 - Specialist
About us
More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2 trillion of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.
It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.
Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.
We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.
Role
Do you have a strong passion for data and analytics, using coding languages and creative thinking to influence policy decisions? If the answer to this is ‘yes’ then we have a great opportunity for a Senior Analyst within the analytical team at TPR.
We are looking for someone who can work directly with stakeholders to lead on analytical products. You will be responsible for owning and producing one of our official statistics reports. You will also lead on key analytical projects including:
- Metric design to measure good governance of pension schemes.
- Forecasting future demand for defined contribution decumulation products.
- Understanding how the pensions market is changing and providing evidence to support the teams setting our policy on scheme consolidation.
- Supporting the analytics team migration to a new data warehouse.
You will also have the opportunity to manage a junior analyst within the team, supporting or leading on their project delivery and will be responsible for their professional development.
Responsibilities
The senior analyst role is pivotal to ensuring TPR makes evidence-based decisions. You will:
- lead and manage analytical projects, coordinating and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely deliveries, including managing expectations and engaging multidisciplinary teams
- support your direct reports on their projects, providing direction and technical support. Help them develop their careers
- proactively identify, design and deliver analysis of complex data sets to inform the delivery of the project, including making recommendations on the basis of your analysis.
- use a range of programming languages to manipulate large and complex datasets, and produce robust statistical outputs
- independently deliver a range of analytical outputs, in a range of delivery formats, each best suited to the audience e.g. statistical models, time series analysis, forecasting, scenario analysis.
Essential and desirable criteria
Essential
- Proficiency in application of R or Python, and Power BI or Tableau.
- Able to robustly evaluate data sources for suitability, reliability and accuracy for inclusion in analysis. Experience manipulating big data and quickly getting up to speed to understand the contents and structure of a complex data warehouse.
- Able to co-ordinate and collaborate with stakeholders as an analytical expert, to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Possesses strong communication skills to be able to disseminate complex analysis clearly and arcuately across TPR to a non-technical audience.
Desirable
- Basic understanding of the UK pensions industry.
- Experience in line management.
- Practitioner level knowledge of Git and GitHub.
- AzureDevOps, and AGILE or Dev / DataOps workflow methodologies.
Salary and benefits
As well as a salary between £41,383 and £52,878, we offer:
- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton
How to apply
To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 196456 along with:
- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
- a copy of your CV
- details of your notice period
Current employees in their first 12 months of employment who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention and development of people with disabilities and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.
Applications will be considered on a part time and job share basis. If you want your application to be considered as part of a job share, please apply with the hours you are available to work.
In accordance with Home Office guidance, the successful candidate will be required to provide their right to work in the UK before they start employment. Unfortunately, TPR is not able to offer sponsorship at the time. TPR is a UK-based organisation with a working location in Brighton, candidates must live in the UK to be employed by us.
The Pensions Regulator is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service.
Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory background screening checks and criminal record checks (BPSS).
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.