Careers at Burges Salmon

We are currently recruiting for a Data Analyst to join our Operations team in Bristol. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to our processes and procedures.

Burges Salmon is the independent top 50 UK law firm which delivers the best mix of advice, service and value. We pride ourselves on delivering an excellent standard of legal and business advice to our clients, which has led to many of the firm's practice areas and sectors winning awards and recognition as best in class.

As our Data Analyst you will be responsible for monitoring and developing the Operations team performance with a view to reducing cost and improving performance. Your role will be to analyse and present various data information to enable strategic decisions to be made.

Keys projects this role has delivered successfully include: production of business travel behaviour model, supplier performance model and our catering client satisfaction survey.

Establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships is essential to this role with the ability to influence and drive change across the business. You will work and collaborate with the whole Operations team from ensuring our switchboard KPI's are fit for purpose to reviewing data from new suppliers.

To be successful as our Data Analyst, you will need to demonstrate the following:

• Ability to achieve professional credibility quickly
• Excellent communicator and be able to work effectively in our strong collaborative culture
• Establish & maintain excellent working relationships
• Ability to influence and drive change across business
• Excellent accuracy and great eye for detail
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Proven capability to work to and meet strict deadlines
• Advanced Excel experience

We believe this role will offer great development opportunities and will be shaped by the demands of the rapidly changing legal sector. Ideally you will have worked in a professional services firm before, however we recognise the valuable contribution someone from outside sector can bring.

Our six core values - Ambition , Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the 'working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are delighted to have won the 'Client Management Innovation' category at the Legal Week Innovation Awards 2021 and listed in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2021. We were also named 'UK Law Firm of the Year' at the Legal Week British Legal Awards in 2020 and our commitment to excellence has also recently been recognised by the IIP who have awarded us Platinum certification.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

For full details of the role please see the job description attached below, any questions regarding the role or the interview process please contact Jenna Hazel (Resourcing Business Partner) on 0117 307 6060 or email jenna.hazel@burges-salmon.com

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Closing date: 28 September 2021