City of London
Lead Analyst London (Hybrid) Up to £70,000 This is a great Lead Analyst opportunity for someone who wants ownership, visibility, and the chance to shape how analytics is delivered, not just maintain dashboards. You will be joining a growing function that is investing heavily in data transformation. There is real scope to influence strategy, improve reporting capability, and develop a team, while partnering closely with international recruitment and marketing stakeholders. The Company: A global education organisation supporting international students into university study across multiple destinations. They operate across recruitment, pathway programmes and wider student support services. The Role: This is a Lead Analyst role with a strong commercial lens. You will sit across recruitment and marketing, acting as the bridge between reporting, engineering and business stakeholders. You will be responsible for: • Delivering pipeline, conversion and agent performance analysis, • Owning BAU reporting and early stage forecasting, • Improving and repurposing existing dashboards and analytics products, • Translating stakeholder needs into clear specifications for data engineering and IT, • Prioritising workload and managing expectations confidently, • Coaching analysts and building team capability, • Supporting a major data transformation programme including Microsoft Fabric, lakehouse architecture and Power BI, • Leading reporting migration, validation and quality assurance, • Contributing to early forecasting models, with longer term exposure to data science projects What They Are Looking For: • Strong experience in analytics or BI roles with clear commercial exposure, • End to end delivery of reporting or analytics projects, • Confidence influencing senior stakeholders, • Experience mentoring or managing junior analysts, • Solid Power BI and SQL background, Fabric exposure is beneficial but not essential, • Strong experience building data models end to end, and working in DAX