£250 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Data Analyst role is focused on optimizing technology infrastructure within a corporate banking environment. The position involves analyzing IT financial data, creating insights for rightsizing opportunities, and presenting findings to stakeholders. The role requires strong analytical skills and proficiency in data visualization tools, particularly PowerPoint. The position is hybrid, requiring three days a week on-site in Sheffield.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support analysis, planning, and execution of optimization/rightsizing tactics.
- Work with business-aligned IT functions to optimize on-premise infrastructure consumption and spend.
- Track benefits achieved through rightsizing, including cost impacts and asset re-use.
- Provide presentation materials on technology usage and optimization opportunities.
- Analyze IT financial data and present findings in an accessible manner.
- Utilize Excel, SQL, and Power BI for data analysis and visualization.
- Identify new optimization opportunities and problem-solve with the team.
- Ensure data quality and manage multiple activities to meet deadlines.
- Communicate effectively within an international team.
Key Skills:
- Strong analytical background with IT financial data.
- Proficiency in Excel, SQL, and Power BI.
- Experience with data visualization techniques and high-quality PowerPoint presentations.
- Understanding of IT services and financial management processes.
- Knowledge of IT infrastructure domains.
- Attention to detail in data quality and management.
- Ability to prioritize multiple activities.
- Good communication and presentation skills in English.
- Knowledge of IT Financial Management (ITFM) and Technology Business Management (TBM) is a plus.
Salary (Rate): £250 daily
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Sheffield - Hybrid - to Nov plus extension - £200/250 inside
Overview: We are a global function of over 500 people, and part of the wider IT COO organisation. Serving a corporate bank and its its customers. We work in partnership with the Chief Technology Office to proactively provide insights regarding rightsizing opportunities across Datacentre and End User technologies, thus allowing internal customers/business functions to reduce their utilisation and spend on technology infrastructure. We can categorize the services in the following key areas:
- Supporting the analysis, planning and execution of optimisation/rightsizing tactics, working with business aligned IT functions to optimise their on-premise infrastructure (eg servers, storage, database, mainframe, PC’s) consumption and spend.
- Tracking benefits achieved through rightsizing, including direct cost impacts, reduced datacentre space, power and carbon needs, and the re-use of relinquished assets (thus deferring additional spend).
- Provision of presentation materials relating to technology usage, charges and optimisation opportunities, comprising data sourced from internal billing systems, infrastructure inventories and utilisation reporting.
Requirements: Strong analytical background with the ability to proactively create, interrogate, interpret and draw conclusions/ next steps from IT financial data, and present in an easy to consume way. Excel data analysis, SQL, Power BI, data mapping Experience with charting and other data visualisation techniques, highly quality Powerpoint is a must. Ability to problem solve and work with the team to identify new optimisation opportunities. Understanding of IT services, financial management processes and best practices such as budgeting, cost allocations, and recharges for infrastructure services. Working knowledge of IT infrastructure domains including data centres, network/communications, server utilisation, virtual environments and storage (likely from working within an IT infrastructure function). Strong attention to detail with regards to data quality and data management. Can proactively prioritise multiple activities and ensure deadlines are met. Team player within an international team. Good knowledge of English (written and spoken). Good communication and presentation skills.
Nice to have: Knowledge of IT Financial Management (ITFM), Technology Business Management (TBM) and/or FinOps principles. Awareness of ApptioOne or similar IT cost management solution. ITIL or Service Management background. Logical data mapping experience and use of SQL queries would be desirable. Experience in financial services organisation desirable, but not essential.
For this role we need a really good data analyst, wiz with excel, sql, logical data analysis and adept at powerpoint for stakeholder presentations. There will be a strong focus on taking data from various sources, tidying it up, some small transformations (Excel level) and then into very high quality powerpoint. Working in a FinOps environment is ideal but not mandatory Sheffield (3 days a week onsite)