Job Details:

All applications must apply via Starfish. No applications will be considered via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors job portal. 

Salary range: £42,912 - £57,495 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 10 May 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF KATE’S PASSION FOR NUMBERS AND PEOPLE.

 

Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated and compassionate professionals bring everything to their work. 

 

Take Kate, an absolute wizard at managing housing asset data for our annual £50m capital programme. Kate’s an inspiration to her team. Now a senior manager, she first joined as a college leaver in finance. Through Westminster’s encouragement, as well as her own hard work and determination, she’s gained professional qualifications and taken on a series of increasingly stretching roles. 

 

Today, we depend on Kate’s analytical powers to keep track of the condition of over 21,000 of our tenanted and leasehold homes – from roofs and windows to kitchens and bathrooms. Kate’s committed to achieving the Decent Homes Standard for all our tenants and a high standard for all our leaseholders. Her passion is numbers but, because she grew up in social housing, she also understands the human stories behind the data.

 

More than that she understands the disruption renewal work entails. So when an elderly resident’s family mentioned that their mother needed not just a new kitchen, but adaptations to her bathroom, Kate got right on to it. She co-ordinated with colleagues to assess the resident’s disability needs.

 

Kate’s worked hard to ensure our routine external and internal stock condition surveys pick up on repairs and health & safety issues at the same time. And, by recognising patterns in the data that’s gathered, she makes a vital contribution to forward planning for large-scale capital renewal works.

The Role:

As an Asset Business Analyst, you too can make a powerful contribution. You’ll translate data into answers for key business questions. Helping to ensure that the Directorate’s decisions, investments and services are all underpinned by accurate, high-quality data and reliable systems.

 

Collaboration will be central to your role. You will work with officers, managers, IT teams and external partners to improve how data transforms the wider Housing function. You’ll identify gaps and use your technical expertise to reimagine services. You’ll need to grow comfortable with influencing, negotiating and challenging to reach the most effective outcomes. To support this, you’ll provide technical advice, reports and audit trails that uses accessible language to explain complex and sensitive challenges and solutions.

 

You’ll work with project teams to turn data into clear plans, helping identify risk, shape priorities, funding bids and long‑term investment cycles to improve project delivery and ensure affordable, well‑managed housing. Acting as a bridge between business and data, you’ll enable active planning and prioritisation of future investment programmes and keeping homes affordable.

 

Data analysis and insight will be key. You’ll use analytical techniques to turn complex asset and organisational data into clear insights that inform decisions and shape departmental and wider strategies. You’ll also analyse processes and model future scenarios to support risk‑based planning, predictive maintenance, service reviews, business cases and major transformation work. We’d like you to commit to continuously refining our processes and finding ways to introduce innovation too.

 

On all work, you’ll champion a resident-centred approach, using analysis to identify resident pain points, Directorate inefficiencies, and opportunities to be better. As this is a new role, you’ll be able to shape it into your own.

 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

To be ready for the role, you’re an excellent coder and programmer – proficient at query languages (SQL, Hive, R, Python) and able to use NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. You’ll also bring expertise in applied mathematics and statistics. You’ll have a demonstratable understanding of the Data Standards Authority (DSA) strategy and Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and how these apply to the recording, storage, management and access of data in local government. All round, you have superb ICT skills, including data visualisation tools, Excel, databases, or housing-related systems.

 

We’re looking for someone who has deep dived into all things data – projects, products, services, experiments and strategy. You’re a proven problem solver, ready to do a risk assessment, and develop solutions in collaboration with stakeholders.

 

You’re experienced at extracting, writing and presenting information – including complex reports from multiple data sources – to inform business decisions. You can present this information to people that have little familiarity with data in a way that they can easily understand. It’s key that you’re able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

 

You’ll bring strong organisational and time management skills to meet competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment. It’s important that you’re able to maintain confidentiality, sensitivity and professionalism when handling personal or politically sensitive data.

 

We would like to see a degree or professional certification in data or business analysis. Equivalent experience and skills also work.

 

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

 

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

 

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

 

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

 

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

 

All applications must apply via Starfish. No applications will be considered via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors job portal.