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Senior BI Developer
London
£450 - £500
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ContractLondon
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Senior BI Developer
6 Months | Outside IR35 | £450-500pd | London (1-2 Days per Week) | Immediate Start
THE COMPANY
A leading consulting organisation is seeking a Senior BI Developer to support a major Finance BI transformation programme centred around Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and enterprise data warehousing.
THE ROLE
You’ll be responsible for developing and enhancing finance reporting solutions, working closely with Business Analysts, Architects and stakeholders to deliver key reporting initiatives across Revenue Recognition, Working Capital and Margin Reporting.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and maintain data warehouse solutions and semantic models
- Design and build Power BI reports and dashboards
- Develop and optimise Microsoft Fabric solutions
- Build, test and maintain ETL pipelines using SQL and SSIS
- Develop and optimise SSAS Cubes and Tabular Models
- Support BI performance tuning and optimisation
- Contribute to CI/CD and deployment processes
- Maintain technical documentation within Azure DevOps
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Strong Power BI development experience
- Proven Microsoft Fabric implementation experience
- Strong SQL Server and T-SQL skills
- Experience with SSIS, ETL and data integration
- Strong SSAS Cube and Tabular Model experience
- Data Warehousing and Data Modelling expertise
- Experience with SSDT, Visual Studio and Azure DevOps
- Experience with BI CI/CD and deployment processes
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills
Desirable
- Experience delivering finance reporting solutions including:
- Revenue Recognition
- Working Capital
- Margin/Profitability Reporting
- Financial KPI Reporting
- Professional Services or Consulting experience

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Data Protection/Data Governance Engineer
London
£560 - £640
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Data Protection / Data Governance Engineer
3 Month Contract | Outside IR35 | £560-£640 per day
London (1 day per week)
A leading digital media and technology business is looking for a Data Protection / Data Governance Engineer to lead a critical governance transformation across a large-scale Google Cloud environment.
This is a hands-on contract focused on moving data governance from policy into practice. The organisation already has governance frameworks in place but now requires an experienced contractor to establish ownership, implement technical controls, and ensure governance is embedded across its cloud and data platforms.
You’ll work closely with Legal, the DPO, Platform Engineering and senior leadership to build a scalable governance capability that balances compliance with business agility.
The Role
Over a 12-week engagement, you will assess and improve a complex GCP estate, implement governance controls, and establish processes that enable the business to meet its data protection and retention obligations.
Success in this role means delivering practical, sustainable governance that is automated wherever possible and can be operated by the permanent team following handover.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess and remediate governance gaps across a large Google Cloud Platform environment.
- Design and implement least-privilege and zero-trust access controls.
- Review and optimise IAM, RBAC, service accounts and organisation policies.
- Work with Legal and Compliance stakeholders to translate policy requirements into technical controls.
- Classify data and implement retention standards across cloud platforms.
- Review large volumes of historical and archived data to determine appropriate retention and deletion approaches.
- Restructure and govern BigQuery datasets to support automated retention and access controls.
- Implement governance controls through Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Establish a practical DPIA process and governance workflows.
- Introduce governance standards across key SaaS platforms including GA4, Meta and Xtremepush.
- Produce documentation, operating procedures and handover packs for the permanent team.
Your Skills & Experience
Essential
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Expertise in IAM, RBAC, Organisation Policies and Service Accounts.
- Experience implementing least-privilege and zero-trust security models.
- Strong BigQuery governance and security experience.
- Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code expertise.
- Experience delivering data governance, data protection or cloud governance programmes.
- Strong understanding of GDPR, data retention, DPIAs and broader data protection principles.
- Experience working across Engineering, Legal, Compliance and business stakeholders.
- Proven track record delivering contract engagements independently.
Desirable
- Experience within regulated industries such as Gambling, Gaming, Financial Services, FinTech or Insurance.
- Experience with DLP tooling and data classification frameworks.
- Experience governing SaaS platforms containing personal data.
- Previous experience working within large, complex cloud estates.

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Business Analyst
London
£500 - £550
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Finance BI Transformation | Microsoft Fabric | Outside IR35
£500-550 per day
Outside IR35
6 Month Initial Contract
London (1-2 Days Per Week)
A leading global consultancy is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a major Finance BI transformation programme. The organisation is migrating finance reporting from legacy SQL Server and SSAS environments into a consolidated Microsoft Fabric FinanceBI semantic model, creating a modern reporting and analytics capability across key finance functions.
This is a highly visible role where you’ll act as the senior functional lead across requirements gathering, specification development, UAT and change management, whilst helping bring structure and direction to a growing BA function.
The Role
You’ll work closely with Finance stakeholders, Architects, Developers and the wider BI team to translate business requirements into scalable reporting and data solutions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading requirements gathering workshops with Finance stakeholders
- Converting business requirements into detailed functional specifications
- Acting as the key liaison between Finance and technology teams
- Defining data model, reporting and governance requirements
- Supporting the design of scalable ETL and reporting solutions
- Owning UAT planning, execution support and defect triage processes
- Designing and coordinating change management activities for go-lives
- Producing process maps, data dictionaries and requirements documentation
- Providing leadership and structure to the wider BA pod
- Supporting delivery across multiple Finance BI workstreams
Key Projects
You’ll be delivering against a strategic Finance BI roadmap including:
- Finance BI Semantic Model build within Microsoft Fabric
- Case Margin Reporting
- Working Capital Reporting
- Revenue Recognition Reporting
- Sold vs Actual Case Margin Insights
- Global Finance Reporting Dimensions
- Investment Insights and Analytics
Requirements
We’re looking for candidates who can demonstrate:
- Strong experience as a Senior or Lead Business Analyst delivering BI, Data Warehouse, Analytics or Data Platform programmes
- Proven track record gathering requirements, producing detailed functional specifications and leading UAT processes
- Strong stakeholder management across both Finance and Technology teams
- Experience leading or mentoring Business Analysts within a project environment
- Experience working on Finance Reporting, Finance Transformation or Finance Systems programmes
- Strong understanding of data modelling, reporting and analytics solutions
- Ability to bring structure and governance to a fast-moving agile delivery environment
Essential Domain Experience
Candidates must be able to demonstrate experience delivering these finance reporting workstreams:
- Case Margin Reporting
- Working Capital Reporting
- Revenue Recognition Reporting
- Margin, Profitability or Sold vs Actual Analysis
- Global Finance Reporting and Dimensional Models
- Investment Reporting, Insights or Analytics
Applicants who can demonstrate multiple examples across these areas will be particularly well suited to the programme.
Highly Desirable
- Microsoft Fabric experience
- Power BI experience
- SQL Server / SSAS environments
- Finance Data Warehouse or Semantic Model programmes
- Change Management ownership
- Professional Services, Consultancy or Partnership environments
- Experience operating within complex stakeholder landscapes

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BI Analyst
City of London
£500 - £550
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractCity of London, London
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SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
LONDON
OUTSIDE IR35
£500 TO £550 PER DAY
This is an opportunity to join a high profile Finance Business Intelligence transformation programme that is modernising enterprise finance reporting through Microsoft Fabric. You will play a pivotal role in shaping requirements, driving User Acceptance Testing, and leading change management across a critical Finance BI delivery roadmap.
The Company
They are a large stratergy consulting firm undergoing a significant finance reporting transformation. The programme is focused on migrating reporting capabilities from legacy SQL Server and SSAS environments into a unified Microsoft Fabric semantic model. Working within an agile delivery environment, they are investing heavily in modern data platforms, finance analytics, and reporting excellence. This contract offers the chance to influence both current delivery priorities and the longer-term Finance BI roadmap.
The Role and Deliverables
- Engage finance stakeholders to define business requirements, KPIs, and reporting needs across the Finance BI programme.
- Translate business requirements into clear specifications for architects and developers, acting as the key link between business and technology teams.
- Define data model, governance, and reporting requirements for a Microsoft Fabric based semantic model.
- Lead UAT design, defect triage processes, and requirement documentation to support successful project delivery.
- Design and coordinate change management activities for finance reporting releases and go live deployments.
- Provide day to day direction across business analysis activities while supporting the delivery of priorities including Case Margin, Working Capital, financial reporting, and investment reporting.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience delivering business analysis, requirements gathering, and UAT activities within BI, analytics, or data platform programmes.
- Experience working with Microsoft Fabric or a comparable modern cloud data platform.
- Ability to engage senior finance stakeholders and translate business objectives into actionable technical requirements.
- Knowledge of data modelling, semantic models, ETL concepts, and reporting best practices.
- Experience operating within agile delivery environments and bringing structure to evolving workstreams.
- Strong understanding of finance reporting, management information, or investment reporting environments.
- Ability to manage defect triage, coordinate stakeholders, and support successful change adoption without requiring hands on development skills.

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BI Developer
City of London
£450 - £500
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractCity of London, London
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SENIOR BI DEVELOPER
LONDON
OUTSIDE IR35
1 TO 2 DAYS PER WEEK IN OFFICE
ASAP START
This is an opportunity to join a high-profile finance transformation programme focused on modernising business intelligence and reporting capabilities. You will play a key role in the migration of finance reporting from legacy technologies to Microsoft Fabric, helping to deliver critical reporting and analytical capabilities across the organisation.
The Company
They are a large, stratergy orgainisation undertaking a significant data and reporting transformation. Their focus is on creating a modern, scalable Finance BI environment that supports better decision-making and operational insight. Working within an agile delivery model, they are investing in Microsoft Fabric, data modelling, and advanced reporting capabilities to enhance financial and investment reporting.
The Role and Deliverables
- Develop and enhance data warehouse solutions, including data models and Power BI semantic models within Microsoft Fabric.
- Build and maintain ETL pipelines, ensuring reliable and efficient data integration processes.
- Partner with Business Analysts to design, develop, and deliver Power BI reports and dashboards for finance stakeholders.
- Optimise end-to-end BI solutions within Microsoft Fabric, identifying opportunities to improve performance and scalability.
- Implement and support automated testing processes to improve solution quality and delivery efficiency.
- Maintain clear technical specifications, documentation, and task tracking within Azure DevOps.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience developing business intelligence solutions, including data integration and data warehouse development.
- Proven capability working with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and semantic model development.
- Expertise in SSAS cube design, development, and optimisation.
- Strong ETL development experience using SQL and SSIS.
- Proficiency with SSDT, Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps.
- Experience establishing or supporting BI continuous integration and release processes.
- Ability to create effective, visually engaging Power BI reports and dashboards.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Comfortable working in an agile environment with changing priorities and evolving requirements.
- Experience supporting finance, financial reporting, or investment reporting environments would be beneficial.

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Data Governance Engineer
London
£560 - £640
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
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Data Protection / Data Governance Engineer
LONDON
1 DAY ONSITE
OUTSIDE IR35
£560 TO £640 PER DAY
ASAP START
This is an opportunity to build a data governance capability from the ground up within a growing organisation in the online gaming and gambling sector. They have recently completed a full audit of their data estate and are now investing in enterprise-wide governance, security, retention, and privacy controls. This contract will suit someone who enjoys delivering hands-on transformation projects and leaving behind a sustainable operating model.
The Company
They are a digital-first organisation operating within a highly regulated industry, supported by a large-scale data environment across cloud platforms, databases, and SaaS applications. Data governance has become a strategic priority, with strong support from senior leadership and the board. They are looking to establish robust governance processes that protect customer data while enabling continued innovation and growth.
The Role and Deliverables
- Design and implement a least-privilege access model across GCP and key SaaS platforms, including IAM, RBAC, service accounts, and access management workflows.
- Build and document governance controls using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Create a comprehensive data inventory and classification framework, mapping datasets to agreed retention and governance policies.
- Restructure BigQuery environments to support enforceable retention through partitioning, clustering, security controls, and automated expiration policies.
- Establish a practical DPIA process, including templates, workflows, and completed assessments for high-risk data flows.
- Deliver detailed runbooks, operating procedures, governance documentation, and a full handover package to ensure the internal team can continue operating the capability.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with GCP, including organisation policies, IAM conditions, resource hierarchy, and service account management.
- Expertise in BigQuery security, retention management, DLP, column and row-level security, and data classification.
- Strong Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Technical GDPR knowledge covering retention, DSARs, DPIAs, lawful basis, and breach management.
- Proven experience implementing least-privilege and zero-trust security models within complex cloud environments.
- Experience governing personal data across SaaS platforms such as GA4, Meta, Salesforce, Braze, Zendesk, Iterable, Xtremepush, or similar.
- Demonstrated success delivering greenfield or large-scale governance transformation projects rather than BAU operations.
- Comfortable operating independently, taking ownership, and driving delivery across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups.

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Workforce Analyst
Leeds
£40000 - £46000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLeeds, West Yorkshire
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Workforce Analyst
Salary: £46k + Benefits
Location: 1x a month in Leeds Office – Remote
Type: Permanent Role
The Role:
- Lead analytical programmes supporting workforce, pay and reward strategies.
- Develop workforce models and financial forecasting to support business decision-making.
- Create “what-if” scenarios to assess the impact of policy and workforce changes.
- Deliver data-driven insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Produce clear reports, dashboards and analytical outputs for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Support the development of workforce intelligence, planning and strategic decision-making.
Requirements:
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Proven experience analysing large and complex datasets.
- Strong workforce, people, financial or operational analytics experience.
- Experience developing predictive models and scenario analysis.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
What Will Make You Stand Out:
- Experience with Python, R, SPSS or similar analytical tools.
- Power BI or other data visualisation experience.
- Previous leadership or line management experience.
- Knowledge of workforce planning, pay, reward or employment-related analytics.
- Experience working with large public sector or healthcare datasets.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills across technical and non-technical teams.
If you are interested in the role please apply. To follow up please email me or message me on LinkedIn.

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QA Engineer
London
£70000 - £75000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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QA Automation Engineer
Location: London (Hybrid, 2 days per week)
Salary: £75k + Benefits
Type: Permanent Role
The Role:
· Join a high-growth technology business developing innovative digital financial products.
· Design, build and maintain automated testing solutions across a modern microservices environment.
· Work closely with Product Managers, Developers and QA colleagues to ensure high-quality software delivery.
· Drive automation best practices and reduce reliance on manual testing.
· Execute smoke, regression, functional and API testing activities.
· Leverage AI-powered tools to improve testing efficiency and productivity.
Requirements:
· Proven years of experience in QA Automation Engineering.
· Strong Java and/or Kotlin programming skills.
· Experience with Selenium, Selenide or Playwright.
· Strong API testing expertise.
· Knowledge of TestNG, JUnit and automation frameworks.
· SQL and database testing experience.
· Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions.
· Previous experience within Agile teams.
What Will Make You Stand Out:
· Experience testing microservices architectures.
· Exposure to JMeter or Gatling.
· Experience with Elasticsearch and Sentry.
· Strong understanding of modern web technologies.
· Experience using AI tools to enhance testing workflows.
· Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
if you are interested in the role please apply. To follow up please email or message me on LinkedIn.

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Data Analyst
London
£40000 - £46000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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DATA ANALYST
REMOTE (ONE DAY A MONTH IN LEEDS OFFICE)
UP TO £46,000
This is an opportunity to join a highly respected organisation at the intersection of workforce strategy, analytics, and policy. As a Data Analyst, you will play a key role in shaping evidence-based decisions that influence workforce planning, pay frameworks, and long-term organisational strategy. You’ll work on complex analytical challenges whilst engaging with a broad range of senior stakeholders.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Data Analyst will:
- Deliver workforce, pay, and reward analysis to support strategic decision-making.
- Build and maintain complex Excel-based models to forecast workforce and financial outcomes.
- Develop cost modelling for pay proposals, policy changes, and workforce initiatives.
- Create scenario analysis and long-term forecasts incorporating variables such as workforce growth, attrition, and inflation.
- Analyse large and complex datasets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Translate business and policy questions into analytical specifications and modelling frameworks.
- Produce clear reports and recommendations for non-technical audiences.
- Present findings and analytical insights to senior stakeholders.
- Collaborate with policy teams and external stakeholders to support evidence-based decisions.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of analytical methodologies and best practices.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
- Advanced Excel skills, including building complex models from scratch.
- Experience using formulas, Pivot Tables, charts, VBA, and macros.
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving capability.
- Experience modelling complex business, workforce, or financial scenarios.
- The ability to work with large datasets and extract meaningful insights.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience presenting technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- A STEM degree, ideally within mathematics, statistics, economics, or a related discipline.
- The ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
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From analysts to developers, Business Intelligence (BI) roles are indispensable, and an integral part of any data-driven team. Responsible for processing and visualising raw data over a variety of software applications, BI professionals help companies process their raw data into insightful solutions to solve complex business problems.
If you’re looking for recruitment support or jobs specialising in Cognos, Tableau, Qlikview, Looker, Domo, Birst, Microsoft Stack (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), we have the team to help.
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