Senior Analyst

About StudentCrowd
StudentCrowd is where higher education and student accommodation decisions get made. More than 14 million students have used us to choose where to study and live, and we power the investors, developers, operators, universities and property advisers shaping the sector, with 4.3 billion+ real-time data points spanning pricing, availability, incentives, planning activity and verified student sentiment across the UK, Ireland and seven European markets, with the rest of Europe and the US next.
Behind all of that is a small team of people who genuinely care: about students making one of the biggest decisions of their lives, about the sector we serve, and about each other. We are over 70 people located remotely, and we've built a place we actually like coming to work.
We run on a freedom and responsibility framework: manage your own time, work flexibly, and own your work. No micromanagement, just clear expectations, mutual respect, and room to do great work that matters.

About the team
The Central Intelligence Team is the intelligence function of the business. We find, build, organise and synthesise the evidence that StudentCrowd relies on to make decisions, from proving hypotheses from our data, to understanding what the market needs and why, to turning what we know into content and narratives that drive commercial growth.
The intelligence function is anchored in two repositories: internal data knowledge and market knowledge. The rest of the business draws on this intelligence daily. The analyst function acts as the interface between the internal data repository and everyone else: answering questions, building dashboards and self-serve tools, and increasingly owning the systems and automation that enable people to find what they need themselves.

About the role
StudentCrowd has an established analysis and intelligence function which has supported decision-making across the business for a number of years. The focus of this role is the continued development of that function, with particular emphasis on process improvement, automation, and the application of AI to reporting and analysis.
This is a senior, hands-on position. The successful candidate will take day-to-day ownership of the internal data reporting layer and lead the transition towards more automated and self-serve ways of working, supporting the business as it expands into further European markets and the United States.
The role reports to the Director of Analysis and Market Intelligence, who retains overall responsibility for the function and its direction. The successful candidate will be accountable for delivery.

What you'll do

• Lead the ongoing development of reporting and analysis processes and the querying of our internal data repository, with a focus on automation, self-service and the reduction of manual effort
• Provide quality assurance over automated and AI-assisted outputs, catching what the system misses before it reaches a stakeholder
• Take day-to-day ownership of internal dashboards and reporting, maintaining and improving existing standards
• Write and review the SQL underpinning analysis, and structure source data to support reliable reporting
• Work as a partner to teams across the business, contributing to the definition of requirements rather than responding to requests alone
• Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders, linking analysis to commercial outcomes
• Establish and maintain templates, data models and documented processes to support consistent delivery as the business scales into new markets
• Where requested, source, clean, normalise and structure data so it's ready for analysis, dashboarding or narrative-building
• Spot and report data quality issues in our internal data (missing values, duplicates, formatting anomalies) before they reach a stakeholder