Forecasting & Planning Analyst
Since 2012, Capita have been working in partnership with the British Army to deliver best in class recruitment services. The partnership is responsible for attracting, sourcing, and selecting officers and soldiers for the Army (Regular and Reserve), meeting targets for quantity, quality and candidate experience.
The role supports the delivery, improvement and maintenance of the forecasting function to help create an efficient and robust process that produces timely, accurate and credible outputs.
You will own the weekly short term planning process including the maintenance of the forecasting and planning models, ensuring the recruiting operation is sufficiently resourced to meet demand, and deliver the contractual obligations of the recruiting partnership.
Job title: Forecasting & Planning Analyst
Job Description:
What you’ll be doing:
- Forecast modelling - Enhancing and maintaining forecasting and business planning functions to maximise accuracy, resource utilisation and efficiency through the application of forecasting and performance analysis.
- Capacity Planning - Supporting senior management to formulate actual and future resource requirements to inform business decisions around training and recruitment.
- Variance Tracking – Enhancing and maintaining forecast variance reporting to drive
- Scenario Modelling – To formulate budget assumptions and future resource requirements for each of our clients, working with Finance and Operational teams where appropriate to inform the forecasting model.
- Data analysis - Process large, complex datasets to generate meaningful insights on performance and drive refinements in our forecasting assumptions.
- KPI Tracking - Track against our contractual measures, escalate inefficiencies, shortfalls, and risks with insight & solutions
- Actioning data requests and building dashboards
What we’re looking for:
- Proven experience within a Data/Forecasting role in large scale operation
- Advanced MS Excel, VBA, skills (SQL and PowerBI would be desirable)
- Strong communication, interpersonal and documentation skills
- Good Stakeholder management skills
- Project management experience would be beneficial
- Knowledge of configuring, deploying and designing data and reporting solutions to meet multiple stakeholder requirements
- Must be able to be cleared to UK SC level
About Capita RPP
At Capita Recruiting Partnering Project, we’re transforming the British Army’s recruitment service. Our team are constantly improving the entire recruitment and selection process for both the Regular Army and the Reserves. Our mission is to make joining the Army a less daunting and more transparent experience. Join us and discover better ways to inspire people to become part of the Army.
What’s in it for you?
- A competitive basic salary of up to £38,000
- 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
- The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
- Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
- Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
- Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
- Joining an existing, supportive team environment
- Excellent bespoke training
- Mostly home working, great work/life balance, expectation to travel to office in Upavon on a monthly basis
What we hope you’ll do next:
Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
We’re an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio), or if you’d like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please email Iqbal at or call 07784 237318 and we’ll get back to you. For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments, please visit the Capita Careers website
Location: Upavon, Zjednoczone Królestwo
Time Type: Zatrudnienie w pełnym wymiarze godzin
Contract Type: Stały
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