Business Unit: Chief Operating Office
Salary range: £37,600- £50,000 per annum DOE
Location: UK Remote – with travel to some of our key hubs including Glasgow and Newcastle when required.
Contract type: Permanent

Get out of your comfort zone. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team
The Strategic and Advanced Analytics function (SAA) has four key capabilities – Customer Interaction Management, Customer Analytics and Reporting, Data Science and Data Design.
Data Design supports the other functions by creating centralised data marts through regular business as usual (BAU) processes, providing data management oversight, and using our technical expertise to support key projects within the bank

What you’ll be doing

• Ownership of the Data Design BAU processes
• Working alongside the Data Design Senior Analyst to ensure the BAU processes are run according to agreed schedules, and to investigate and resolve issues
• Identifying and prioritise potential improvements to BAU processes
• Developing new BAU processes and implement these, and maintain and manage changes to existing BAU processes
• Ensuring we have adequate coverage of automated data and error checks
• Communicating effectively with the other SAA teams and bank stakeholders to support change initiatives and provide BAU updates
• Coaching the Data Design Senior Analyst
• Running the SAA Data Management Forum, with a focus on data retention, identification and documentation of critical data items, data lineage and process documentation

We need you to have

• Extensive experience of building data manipulation processes in SAS or SQL, with the ability to balance between efficiency, maintainability and simplicity
• Confidence to analyse complicated processes
• The ability to independently manage and prioritise your own workloads
• A track record of successfully coaching more junior colleagues
• Experience of testing and peer reviewing code
• The ability to holistically review problems and apply your insatiable curiosity to implement better solutions. 

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Good understanding of relevant regulations, eg GDPR, and data governance
• Experience of using Azure tools
• Knowledge of R / Python

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. 

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks. 

Advert close date is 24th January 2025.