Higher executive data analyst

Birkenhead, North West England, CH41 6DU : Croydon, London (region), CR0 2AQ : Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT : Durham, North East England, DH1 5TR : Weymouth, South West England, DT4 9TT : Gloucester, South West England, GL1 1DQ : Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and the Humber, HU2 8JN : Leicester, East Midlands (England), LE3 5DR : Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS : Warton, North West England, PR4 1TE : Swansea, Wales, SA7 9FQ : Telford, West Midlands (England), TF3 4LR

Job Summary

We have a great opportunity for a Higher Executive Data Analyst to join our forecasting team. This is an exciting role with exposure to all areas of the organisation, providing high quality analysis to support senior stakeholders make evidence based strategic decisions.

We offer extensive opportunities for professional growth and skills enhancement, with access to continuous learning and development, in both technical and soft skills, and considerable opportunities to apply learning and to develop leadership and strategic skills through exposure to high profile work and senior leaders.

Job Description

In this role you will work effectively to evaluate and report on external drivers and influences on HMLR’s demand and revenue, including assessing any variation against forecast and potential impact on organisational performance trajectories.

Working with the sub team lead and working closely with colleagues across the group, you will understand, manipulate and accurately analyse complex data to develop high profile reporting products and provide analytical/modelling insight for use at senior level across the organisation.

You will make complex information easy to understand for non-technical audiences, developing innovative tools to provide regular and consistent reporting outputs, within a supportive team focused on analytical rigour, automation and reproducible analytical pipelines.

This is a key role, where a wide variety of stakeholders will depend on you to deliver products with high quality data visualisation which meets their business area needs, and to draw out accurate and actionable insights from your analysis.

In this role you will work effectively to evaluate and report on external drivers and influences on HMLR’s demand and revenue, including assessing any variation against forecast and potential impact on organisational performance trajectories.

Working with the sub team lead and working closely with colleagues across the group, you will understand, manipulate and accurately analyse complex data to develop high profile reporting products and provide analytical/modelling insight for use at senior level across the organisation.

You will make complex information easy to understand for non-technical audiences, developing innovative tools to provide regular and consistent reporting outputs, within a supportive team focused on analytical rigour, automation and reproducible analytical pipelines.

This is a key role, where a wide variety of stakeholders will depend on you to deliver products with high quality data visualisation which meets their business area needs, and to draw out accurate and actionable insights from your analysis.

Person specification

To be successful in this role you will have One or more of:

• Relevant skills, knowledge and application of Operational Research techniques (OR);
• Qualifications to allow 'badging' to join GORS (Government Operational Research Service) in an analytical profession. Qualifications are a 2:1 in a numerate subject, and substantial experience of applying operational research or for GSS, a 2:1 in a numerate subject and substantial experience of applying statistics; for GDS, a 2:1 in a numerate subject and substantial experience of data science.
  
  

This Should Include

• Experience of developing MI and analytical/modelling insight.
• Experience of manipulating data and coding (using one or more of: SQL, R or Python).
• Experience of using complex data to build dashboards or performance reports.
• Evidence of at least one high profile analytical project you have managed.
  
  

We welcome applications from those people who are already badged within the GORS, GSS or GDS community.

You will have strong communication skills particularly in the presentation of analysis with impact. Have good experience of senior stakeholder engagement to understand needs and manage expectations. Experience of analytical quality assurance under time and resource pressure and a good team working ethos.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
  
  

Alongside your salary of £39,849, HM Land Registry contributes £11,544 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.
  
  

You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability and Experience.

You will be asked to complete a short application form in the first instance and sit two online tests:

• Civil Service Numerical Test (CSNT); and
• Civil Service Verbal Test (CSVT)
  
  

Should you be successful you will be asked to complete the full application form, including completing your CV when prompted

In your CV please include your work history, qualifications and technical experience, we will test your CV against the essential technical criteria.

Then Complete The Personal Statement Section (in No More Than 750 Words), Please Demonstrate How You Meet The Essential Experience Criteria

• Strong communication skills particularly in the presentation of analysis with impact.
• Good experience of senior stakeholder engagement to understand needs and manage expectations
• Good experience of analytical quality assurance under time and resource pressure;
• Good team working ethos
  
  

In case of a high volume of applications we may complete a pre-sift on your CV. Only those applications that pass the initial sift will be fully sifted.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ –once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications –this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.

The final stage will consist of a blended interview, which will be conducted as a video interview using MS Teams. We expect interviews to take place during the week commencing the 10th November 2025.

At the blended interview, you will be asked to deliver a pre-prepared presentation, and we will test the essential technical, experience and Behaviours listed in the ‘Person Specification’.

Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people.

If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category.

You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.

You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability and Experience.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

• Name : Kelly Magee
• Email : [email protected]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]
  
  

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email [email protected] in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: