Senior Statutory Reporting & Data Analyst

The role supports LCCA’s regulatory obligations by managing complex statutory data returns, maintaining robust data quality and assurance processes, producing performance reporting for senior leadership, and analysing student data to support institutional performance monitoring and regulatory readiness.

The postholder will connect regulatory requirements, student life cycle data, institutional systems, business intelligence and performance analysis, ensuring that LCCA’s statutory reporting is accurate, well governed, auditable and supported by reliable underlying data.

This role currently has line management responsibility for 1x Statutory Reporting and Data Analyst.

Key Responsibilities

Statutory Data Returns

• Prepare and manage regulatory data submissions including HESA Student return, HESES, Graduate Outcomes and Discover Uni returns.

• Ensure submissions are accurate, validated and delivered in line with regulatory requirements and deadlines.

• Investigate and resolve validation errors, data anomalies and inconsistencies prior to submission.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation and audit trails for submitted datasets.

• Maintain clear records of statutory definitions, calculations, derived fields and reporting methodologies.

• Interpret changes to statutory reporting requirements and assess their impact on LCCA data, systems and processes.

Reporting & Performance Analysis

• Produce regular management information for senior stakeholders on institutional performance and student outcomes.

• Analyse key performance measures including continuation, completion, progression and Graduate Outcomes.

• Undertake cohort, programme and student-level analysis to identify emerging performance trends.

• Support the development of reporting that enables senior leaders and academic teams to understand the factors influencing student outcomes.

• Produce clear analytical outputs that translate complex data into meaningful information for different stakeholders.
  
  

Business Intelligence & Data Reporting

• Contribute to the wider work of the Business Intelligence, Data Analytics & Reporting function.

• Ensure statutory reporting definitions are appropriately aligned with institutional reporting and wider governance standards.

• Contribute to the development of dashboards and reporting products supporting student performance, regulatory monitoring and data quality.

• Undertake ad hoc analysis in response to institutional, regulatory, and senior leadership requirements.
  
  

Regulatory Data & Business Processes

Stakeholder Management

• Build effective working relationships with colleagues across Registry, Admissions, academic teams, Finance, IT and other professional service areas.

• Provide specialist advice on statutory reporting requirements, student data and regulatory definitions.

• Communicate complex regulatory and technical requirements clearly to non-specialist audiences.

Keys Skills & Experience

Our Approach

We are committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse student population, striving to increase the representation of age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background of our employees.

We’re also committed to providing adjustments to those who may require support with the recruitment process - please contact the LCCA Talent Acquisition Team [email protected]

Please note: For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licenced sponsor.