Senior Business Data Services Analyst

Licensed sponsor London Posted 9 hours ago

The Department

Our Technology team continues to go from strength to strength, playing a vital role in firm-wide innovation and strategy. Far from being a support function, Technology is integral to the firm's growth agenda, backed by strong leadership engagement and sustained investment.

The Role

The Senior Business Data Services Analyst leads the Business Data Administration across agreed business applications, ensuring approved changes are executed accurately, consistently and in line with agreed controls.

Duties and Responsibilities

Lead complex approved data changes across agreed systems.
Coordinate bulk updates, data loads and mass amendments.
Support matter, client, employee, reference data, rate and hierarchy changes.
Investigate and remediate agreed data quality issues.
Perform reconciliations and exception management.
Develop standard operating procedures and runbooks.
Maintain evidence and audit trails for completed changes.
Identify opportunities to improve, simplify or automate repeatable activity.
Work with Product Teams, Data Governance and business stakeholders to ensure changes are controlled and understood.

Essential skills and experience

Experience administering or maintaining data in enterprise business systems.
Strong understanding of controlled data change processes.
Advanced Excel and data handling capability.
Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Ability to work with business and technology stakeholders.
Experience documenting processes and maintaining operational controls.
Good problem-solving and issue investigation skills.

Desirable skills and experience

Experience working with Aderant, SuccessFactors, Intapp, CRM, Profisee, Anaplan or Chrome River.
Experience of developing and owning robust processes and controls over data management and changes.
Experience in legal or professional services.
Understanding of master data, reference data or data quality concepts.
Basic SQL or data interrogation skills.
Familiarity with data governance principles.

Attributes

Excellent organisational skills - ability to work accurately to tight deadlines, prioritise between conflicting demands and effectively manage own workload
Excellent attention to detail.
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
Excellent written skills with the ability to produce high quality documentation.
Methodical and analytical.
Pro-active, self-motivated and takes initiative.
Personable and confident - able to build relationships with colleagues and key stakeholders across the business and work with them accordingly.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent, international professional services business with law at its heart, employing over 1400 people with over 650 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services.

Mishcon de Reya LLP is based in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore, Hong Kong and UAE. The firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply.The work the firm undertakes is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, centred around three increasingly entwined and connected sectors: the Innovation Economy, Private Wealth and Capital, and Real Estate. The firm is known as a disputes powerhouse with a formidable capacity firmwide for dispute resolution.

The Mishcon de Reya Group includes consultancy businesses MDR Discover,MDR Mayfair(in London, Singapore and Dubai), MDR ONE, and MDRi(in Hong Kong). The Group also includesMDR Lab, which invests in the most promising early stage legaltech companies as well as the Mishcon Academy, its in-house place of learning and platform for thought leadership.

In 2024, the Group announced its first strategic acquisition in the alternative legal services market, flexible legal resourcing business Flex Legal. It also acquired a majority stake in Somos, a global group actions management business.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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