Lead Specialist, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

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Pearson is hiring a Lead Specialist, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence. This role involves developing dashboards, performing performance, content, and financial analytics, integrating and automating data from multiple platforms, and applying advanced analytical techniques including AI-assisted analytics. The specialist will collaborate with stakeholders to deliver data-driven insights that support decision-making across Pearson's global business.

Highlights

Develop dashboards and reporting for investment performance, content activity, and financial outcomes.
Analyze budgets, forecasts, actuals, and performance trends for multi-dimensional views.
Integrate, transform, and automate data from multiple enterprise and cloud-based systems.
Apply analytical techniques and support AI-assisted analytics to identify patterns and improve insights.
Partner with stakeholders to translate analytical needs into actionable outputs and manage multiple priorities.
Proficient in SQL, Tableau and/or Power BI; experience with KQL, Python, R, Alteryx, KNIME, and Excel is advantageous.
Experience with enterprise-scale systems such as Oracle EBS/Fusion/OPA, Salesforce, and cloud platforms including GCP, Azure, and AWS.
Degree-level education in a numerate or analytical discipline; Master’s degree or equivalent experience is an advantage.
Accounting qualifications (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) preferred.
Strong communication skills for executive-level reporting and ability to work within matrixed, multi-stakeholder environments.

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Context

Pearson's commitment to learning extends to every aspect of our business â including how we invest in our future. With a wealth of data at our fingertips, we have an exciting opportunity to further elevate our decision-making. In this role, you will play a key part in unlocking new insights from our data, shaping more effective investment strategies, and helping both Pearson and grow and adapt in a dynamic environment.

This role supports Pearson's global business by strengthening performance, content-related, and financial analytics, helping improve visibility, measurement, and decision-making across investment, delivery, and outcomes.

We are looking for a hands-on data and analytics specialist who can help Pearson better leverage its data assets, improve forecasting and insight generation, and contribute to the continued scaling of analytics capabilities across the organisation.

The role will help build a cross-integrated view of data that is currently fragmented or under-utilised, enabling more informed, data-driven decisions. It requires a strong analytical background, curiosity, and the ability to engage, challenge, and influence credibly across a complex enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

Performance, Content & Financial Analytics

Develop dashboards and reporting that provide insight into investment performance, content-related activity, and financial outcomes.
Support analysis across budgets, forecasts, actuals, and performance trends.
Enable consistent, multi-dimensional views (e.g. organisational, regional, functional) to support decision-making.

Data Integration, Quality & Automation

Work with data from multiple enterprise systems and cloud-based platforms.
Contribute to the integration, transformation, and curation of datasets used for reporting and analysis.
Reduce manual reporting through standardised datasets, dashboards, and light-touch automation.

Advanced & AI-Assisted Analytics

Apply analytical techniques to identify patterns, variances, and opportunities across performance and financial data.
Support the use of AI-assisted analytics to improve insight generation, variance explanations, and reporting efficiency.
Operate within established data governance, security, and tooling standards.

Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery

Partner with stakeholders to translate analytical needs into clear, decision-ready outputs.
Manage priorities across multiple requests and timelines.
Communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills & Experience

Core Analytics & Business Skills

Strong experience in data analytics, reporting, and performance analysis
Solid business acumen and financial literacy, with confidence working across budgets, forecasts, and actuals
Ability to synthesise complex data into clear, actionable insights
Experience contributing to, or supporting, large and complex analytical initiatives

Data & Technology

Strong capability in SQL; KQL experience an advantage
Proficiency in enterprise visualisation tools, such as Tableau and/or Power BI
Experience with data preparation and analytics tools (e.g. Alteryx, KNIME, Excel); Python and/or R an advantage
Experience working with enterprise-scale systems, such as Oracle (e.g. EBS / Fusion / OPA) and other operational platforms (e.g. Salesforce or similar)
Understanding of cloud data platforms, including GCP, with exposure to Azure and/or AWS
Comfortable working with large, complex datasets in a governed enterprise environment
Exposure to group reporting or consolidation systems (Oracle / Hyperion advantageous)
Familiarity with light automation using tools such as Power Automate is a plus

Ways of Working

Delivery-focused, pragmatic, and comfortable navigating ambiguity
Confident operating in matrixed, multi-stakeholder environments
Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, including executive-level reporting

Qualifications

Degree-level education in a numerate or analytical discipline
Master's degree or equivalent experience an advantage
ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent accounting qualification preferred.

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