Data Analyst

Job Introduction

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 and Leeds areas. 

Role Responsibility

• 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 the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, 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, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of 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 all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

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 www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At 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 recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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