Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Location: Remote/home based with some travel when required

Salary: £37,000 - £40,000 depending on experience

Hours: Full- time, 40 hours per week

The Aurora Group 

We’re the sixth-largest provider of specialist education in the UK, supporting over 1,200 children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, and employing over 1,500 staff.  

We’re currently looking for a Business Analyst to join our Strategy team to take responsibility for supporting well-informed strategic and commercial decision-making through research and analysis of internal and external business data.

Key Duties: 

• Create and maintain database of nationwide supply and demand for the services we provide
• Review potential acquisition targets
• Support business area owners and project management team with the development of business cases
• Model financial returns and impacts of proposed projects
• Analyse success of projects (actual vs budget etc.)
• Support with Net Zero 2030 progress and other long-term business improvement projects
• Support Strategy and Business Development teams with additional ad hoc research and analysis as required
• Prepare reports on above and present to internal stakeholders  

Experience: 

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:  

• Excellent skills in Microsoft applications – Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams
• Understanding of financial statements and ability to build and manipulate simple financial models
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and conflicting priorities and workload effectively
• Previous business analyst or similar experience, especially in the education/care sectors preferable

Benefits and Additional Information

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance
• Enhanced pension scheme (from October)
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

Apply/Enquiries: 

If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line, or for more information and a full job description, please email Liz.hudson@the-aurora-group.com 

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.