Location: Home Based with occasional travel to meetings in Hampshire and the Home Counties
Contract Type: Self-Employed Consultant or PAYE Employee
Time Commitment: Approximately 1 day per week
About Us
We are a growing hospitality business operating a portfolio of premium pubs, restaurants and hotels across Southern England. We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded Data Analyst to help us unlock the power of our data and provide meaningful insights that support operational and financial decision-making across the business.
This is an ideal opportunity for either an independent consultant seeking a flexible ongoing engagement or an experienced analyst looking for a highly flexible part-time PAYE role.
The Role
Working closely with our senior leadership team, you will be responsible for extracting, analysing and presenting data from multiple business systems to produce accurate, insightful and actionable reports.
You will help us better understand our sales performance, labour costs, guest behaviour, hotel performance and operational trends through the creation of dashboards, automated reporting and analytical tools.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce regular and ad-hoc reports from our key business systems, including:
- Zonal Hotel Solutions (ZHS)
- S4 Labour Scheduling and Payroll
- Design and maintain Power BI dashboards for operational and financial reporting.
- Develop automated reporting processes using Microsoft Power Automate.
- Create and maintain advanced Excel reporting models and pivot tables.
- Analyse sales, labour, payroll, accommodation and guest data to identify trends, opportunities and areas for improvement.
- Work closely with senior stakeholders to understand reporting requirements and provide actionable recommendations.
- Improve reporting efficiency, accuracy and accessibility across the business.
- Support strategic projects through detailed analysis and insight generation.
About You
You will be an experienced analyst who is comfortable working independently and translating complex data into meaningful business insight.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience using Power BI.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, Power Query and complex formulae.
- Experience using Microsoft Power Automate.
- Proven ability to build dashboards and management reporting packs.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working with payroll, labour, operational or financial data.
Desirable Experience
- Previous experience within hospitality, leisure, hotels or retail.
- Experience using Zonal systems.
- Experience using Zonal Hotel Solutions (ZHS).
- Experience using S4 labour scheduling and payroll systems.
- Understanding of hospitality KPIs, labour management and commercial performance reporting.
What We Offer
- Flexible home-based working.
- Choice of engagement as either a self-employed consultant or PAYE employee.
- Approximately one day per week, with flexibility around when the work is completed.
- Opportunity to work directly with the executive leadership team.
- The chance to make a tangible impact on business performance through data-driven insight.
- Occasional travel to meetings in Hampshire and the Home Counties.
If you enjoy transforming data into meaningful commercial insight and have the technical expertise to build robust reporting solutions, we’d love to hear from you.
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Whether you’re an experienced freelance analyst looking for a regular consultancy engagement or seeking a flexible PAYE role alongside other commitments, we’d love to hear from you.
