Statutory Returns Analyst

Main duties and responsibilities

De Montfort University is seeking a Statutory Returns Analyst to join the Strategic Planning and Insight directorate. This role offers an opportunity to support the accuracy, integrity, and impact of the University’s student data. You will work with complex datasets to ensure external submissions are accurate, compliant, and high-quality, while helping colleagues use data effectively to generate insight.

About the role

In this role, you will:

• Prepare and submit statutory and regulatory returns
• Analyse datasets to produce reports and management information
• Apply data quality and assurance processes, maintaining audit trails and documentation
• Ensure compliance with external reporting requirements
• Develop reports using analytical and visualisation tools
• Communicate insights clearly to a range of audiences
• Collaborate with colleagues across Faculties and Professional Services
• Provide guidance on data and reporting requirements
• Support data-related projects and process improvements

Ideal candidate

We are looking for a highly analytical and detail-oriented individual who enjoys working with data and ensuring its accuracy and reliability for onward use. You will support statutory and regulatory reporting, with a particular focus on maintaining data quality, validation, and assurance, while providing insight that informs decision-making across the University.

You will bring strong numeracy and IT skills, with experience using a range of tools to extract, check, and report on complex datasets. You will be comfortable working with large, varied datasets and have experience identifying inconsistencies, resolving errors, and ensuring outputs meet high standards. An understanding of data quality, validation, and assurance processes is essential, alongside experience contributing to statutory, regulatory, or similar organisational reporting.

You will be well organised, able to manage competing priorities and deadlines and take a proactive approach to identifying and addressing data issues and improving processes. Strong interpersonal skills are important, as you will work collaboratively with colleagues across the University and support others to use and interpret data effectively.

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Directorate

The Strategic Planning and Insight directorate supports decision-making by delivering business intelligence, coordinating planning, producing statutory returns, and working closely with colleagues across the University.