Data Analyst

Job title:

Data Analyst

Company

DAC Beachcroft

Job description

DAC Beachcroft’s Claims Solutions Data Analytics team provides analytics products to both internal and external clients in a wide range of areas, including performance and operational analysis, market trends, predictive modelling and fraud detection. This is an area of rapid development, with the team leading the way in making the Claims Solutions Group a truly intelligence led organisation.We are now recruiting for a Data Analyst to join the Newport team, where the successful candidate will be responsible for the analysis of business, client and market data within the Claims Solutions Group. We also welcome applications from the Birmingham.What’s in it for you?

• High levels of flexibility and a great work life balance –
• A well-rounded remuneration package (which includes private medical insurance, income protection insurance and discounted gym membership, amongst many other benefits)
• Opportunities for growth and progression including professional funding
• In person and remote social events
• Opportunity to get involved in a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, which aligns closely to our cultural principles (Determined, Clear, Creative and Supportive). If you are excited about this role and being part of our culture, but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!Main Responsibilities

• Manipulate, analyse and interpret complex data sets relating to the employer’s business and the wider market, including predictive and outcomes modelling.
• Draw valid inferences from analysis and develop solution focused recommendation, presenting them successfully to management.
• Prepare reports and deliver presentations to inform internal and external clients.
• Create data dashboards, graphs and visualisations.
• Provide sector and competitor benchmarking.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure accurate data capture, monitoring, validation and reporting within the business, and to source relevant up-to-date market intelligence.
• Working with colleagues to develop innovative analytics solutions, implement new intelligence processes and small projects.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience of data analysis and manipulation, and the ability to work with large volumes of information from disparate sources.
• Experience of using a range of techniques and methods when undertaking and presenting analysis
• Experience of using Microsoft Excel to a highly competent level
• Familiarity with a variety of data formats, including databases.
• Experience of using national statistics, census and open data.
• Experience of using applied statistics.
• Ability to communicate and present complex information in a simple, tailored and creative way which can influence senior decision makers
• Developing and implementing databases, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.
• The ability to work to deadlines and manage multiple work streams.
• High standard of written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent relationship and client handling skills. Able to deal confidently and professionally with clients and colleagues on day to day issues.
• A strong understanding of legal sector or insurance industry business context, with the ability to apply this to the analysis.

Desirable Technical Skills/Experience

• Experience of using GIS, visualisation and statistical packages
• Experience of SQL and VBA

About DAC BeachcroftWe are a leading international legal business with over 2,900 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 141 practice area rankings across Chambers UK 2023 and The Legal 500 2023 and over 230 individual lawyers ranked in the two guides.Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. Our most recent accolades include being named the top winner at the 2022 Legal Innovation Awards with two awards, bringing home two National Insurance Awards in 2023 for ‘Insurance Law’ and ‘Innovative Product’, winning ‘Legal Adviser of the Year – Public’ at both the 2021 and 2022 HealthInvestor Awards and ‘Legal Adviser of the Year – Private’ at the 2021 awards, and being named ‘Arbitration Team of the Year’ at the 2022 British Legal Awards. Regionally in the UK, we were named ‘Law Firm of the Year – Large’ in the 2022 Yorkshire Legal Awards and ‘Innovators of the Year’ at the 2022 Bristol Law Society Awards.Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit .What you need to know about applyingAt DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are. We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.We also want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our recruitment team can be contacted at

Expected salary

Location

Birmingham – Newport, Shropshire

Job date

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 03:28:22 GMT

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