Top Analyst Jobs in Edinburgh

Lead complex data analysis and source-system investigations to define, validate and document data requirements. Translate requirements into measurable business outcomes and technical specifications, ensure end-to-end traceability, apply data governance, lead data quality assessments, and collaborate with data engineering and senior stakeholders to deliver sustainable data products.

Deliver HR data, insights and reporting across the employee lifecycle. Produce regular and ad-hoc reports and dashboards, ensure data governance and accuracy, support reward analytics including gender pay gap and pay review modelling, maintain HRIS reporting, and present findings to stakeholders to inform decision-making.

Provide second-line anti-financial crime (AFC) advice, oversight and challenge for the Adviser platform. Support monitoring, testing, risk assessments, senior reporting, and escalations; liaise with first-line teams, auditors, regulators and third parties to ensure compliance with UK financial crime laws and internal policies.

Provide financial planning, forecasting, reporting and business partnering for the Advanced Products team. Support AOP and 5‑year planning, Quarterly EACs, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, budgeting, pricing, risk management, customer reporting and stakeholder engagement to support programme execution and commercial decision making.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will facilitate business needs analysis, ensure client solutions meet user needs, and manage stakeholder communications.

Manage a global analytics case queue and fulfill reporting, order management, and ad hoc analysis requests. Build and maintain data models, Salesforce and Gong dashboards, and performance scorecards. Support sales compensation, incentive validation, quota goal sheets, territory management, pipeline health checks, and data integrity. Partner with Sales Operations, Finance, leadership, and field teams to ensure accurate, actionable reporting and timely commission processing.

Lead requirements elicitation and backlog management to align product deliveries with business vision. Write testable user stories and acceptance criteria, run discovery workshops, facilitate Agile ceremonies, collaborate with technical stakeholders, and support pre-sales to identify opportunities.

Analyze transactional, syndicated, market, and consumer data for priority countries to explain performance and identify growth opportunities. Build Power BI dashboards, fact packs, reports, and presentations that support country and leadership decision-making. Manage external data providers, coordinate deliverables, quality-check outputs, track competitors and pricing, and maintain consistent documentation and KPI inputs across markets.

Lead discovery activities that identify and assess AI, automation, and service improvement opportunities. Facilitate stakeholder workshops and interviews, analyze business processes, map requirements, evaluate feasibility, and produce opportunity summaries, solution briefs, benefits estimates, decision-support materials, and handover documentation. Build relationships across a complex university environment and collaborate with technical and delivery specialists to support prioritization and implementation.

Supports the design, implementation, testing, validation, deployment, and ongoing guidance of SAP S/4HANA Quality Management templates. Partners with process owners, regional teams, system integrators, and deployment teams to define requirements, harmonize processes, ensure compliance, manage knowledge, conduct fit-to-template reviews, execute UAT, and analyze template gaps. Provides guidance on integrations, standardization, documentation, training, and best practices for quality and food safety processes.

Deliver and interpret catastrophe modelling and exposure analytics across global insurance portfolios. Support accumulation monitoring, PML optimization, exposure data quality, reinsurance treaty analysis, portfolio reporting, and strategic risk decisions. Collaborate with underwriting, exposure data, ceded reinsurance, brokers, reinsurers, capital providers, and model vendors. Improve and automate catastrophe modelling, exposure management, and reporting workflows while translating complex results into actionable insights.

Builds and maintains global Workday HR reporting infrastructure: gathers requirements, develops custom reports and dashboards, tests and validates solutions, supports UAT, mentors peers, handles ad-hoc data requests, and improves report performance and user adoption across HR teams.

Lead development and scaling of vertical-specific programmatic adtech and martech solutions. Query and analyze large datasets, support RFPs and revenue teams, run POCs, and collaborate with product, engineering, data science, and sales to operationalize targeting, measurement, and performance solutions.

Own and evolve product metrics, investigate anomalies and conversion bottlenecks, validate hypotheses, and identify growth opportunities. Design, monitor, and analyze A/B tests, including sample sizing, randomization, guardrail metrics, tracking requirements, and actionable recommendations. Partner with Product and functional leads to prioritize high-impact problems, maintain metric definitions and experiment archives, and proactively identify data-quality issues.

The Senior Director Analyst for Procurement Strategy at Gartner leads research and analysis in procurement strategies, offering actionable insights, producing high-value research, mentoring teams, and engaging with clients to drive their business forward.

Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual FP&A processes for Over-The-Road and Factoring businesses. Prepare and analyze income statements, forecasts, budgets, and board presentations. Partner with accounting, treasury, tax, and sales for deal modeling, M&A due diligence, and integration. Improve reporting through automation, produce management analyses, and identify financial risks and opportunities.

Lead end-to-end enterprise CRM and digital transformation programs across Salesforce, ServiceNow, and CPQ. Drive capability modeling, operating model design, solution and requirement engineering, legacy-to-cloud migration, API/microservices integration, Agile delivery as Product Owner, stakeholder engagement, change management, UAT, and governance to optimize business outcomes.

Senior Business Analyst for energy transmission delivering Dynamic Line Rating, Digital Twin and Network Design capabilities. Lead discovery, translate complex engineering needs into epics and user stories, drive data-driven decisions, map and improve processes, support governance, and engage cross-functional stakeholders to ensure delivery of measurable business outcomes.

Own end-to-end product analytics for the Pro team: build production-grade pipelines and dbt models, define north-star metrics, design A/B tests and causal inference frameworks, create dashboards and metric frameworks, embed AI tooling, and translate insights into product recommendations for leadership.

Manage end-to-end Joiners, Movers, and Leavers (JML) processes to provision, modify, and remove access following least-privilege and RBAC principles. Maintain auditable access records, ensure approvals, liaise with data owners and stakeholders, support audits, document SOPs, and identify process automation and improvement opportunities while collaborating with HR, IT Security, Service Desk, and third parties.

Lead research and thought leadership on Cyber GRC tools and market trends. Produce high-value insights, presentations, and client advisory; support sales, mentor junior analysts, peer-review content, and drive research process improvements. Engage clients virtually and in-person, present at events, and help clients select and implement Cyber GRC platforms.

Lead oversight of SAP security and user access controls, develop SAP GRC policies and governance, review role design and SoD risks, perform control testing and risk reporting using data analytics, and partner with Finance, Technology and Audit to support compliance and continuous improvement.

Lead analytics to improve player experience, engagement, retention, and monetization. Analyze player lifecycle, run cohort and funnel analyses, design and evaluate A/B tests, build dashboards, define product metrics, investigate KPI changes, and partner with product, marketing, engineering, and data teams to deliver data-driven recommendations and improve data quality.

Lead oversight of SAP access and SoD controls, develop SAP GRC policies and governance, review role design, perform control testing and risk reporting, and partner with Finance, Technology and Audit to drive compliance and continuous improvement.

Provide research and advisory to global CFOs and Controllers on transforming controllership processes (AP, AR, financial close) using AI, automation and finance technologies; produce published research, vendor evaluations, and client-facing presentations; collaborate with analysts and deliver strategic, actionable recommendations to improve financial reporting and automation outcomes.