Data and Reporting Analyst

Riverstone Resources Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

About this position

Job Title

Data Analyst

Location

Belfast (N. Ireland) - Hybrid (2 days per week in Office)

Summary 

The Data Analyst will play a key role in extracting, transforming, and analyzing large complex claims and financial data to support business operations, operational reporting, and strategic decision‑making. This position works in close partnership with business partners, IT teams, and stakeholders from across the organization to deliver reliable insights, maintain data quality, and enable efficient data-centric processes. 

This role blends strong analytical thinking with technical skills, ensuring data accuracy, performance, and usability across systems.  The ideal candidate is detail‑oriented, collaborative, and proficient with modern data tools, SQL, and visualization platforms.

Essential Functions

  • Validation, transformation and analysis of structured and unstructured data from multiple internal and external sources, ensuring the highest standards of data accuracy and completeness.
  • Perform data research, profiling, and cleansing to support reporting and operational needs. 
  • Analyze complex datasets and synthesize insights into actionable recommendations for business partners. 
  • Perform detailed reconciliation across multiple data sources to validate accuracy, investigate discrepancies, and identify root‑cause variances, ensuring data integrity and reliable financial reporting
  • Build recurring and ad hoc reports to support performance tracking, compliance, and business initiatives. 
  • Compare and contrast data sources, trends, and historical results over time. 
  • Participate in resolution of data integrity gaps by working with the business owners and IT.
  • Work with business partners to gather and understand functional requirements.
  • Develop complex queries and report out results.
  • Assist with data ingestion and integration tasks. 
  • Work closely with business partners, IT teams, and project management functions to understand requirements and deliver insights. 
  • Participate in operational or strategic discussions where data insights drive decision‑making.
  • Conduct root‑cause analysis on data issues and collaborate with stakeholders towards long‑term fixes.
  • Collaborate with business partners and technical teams to understand complex workflows and data dependencies.
  • Provide subject‑matter expertise on data patterns, business logic, and system interoperability.
  • Effectively collaborate and communicate with internal and external audit teams, providing clear explanations of data, processes, and controls while ensuring requests are addressed promptly and professionally to support a smooth and transparent audit process.
  • Collaborate with multiple cross functional teams and work on solutions which have larger impact on RiverStone business.
  • Establishes and maintains effective working relationships, both internally and externally.

Required Skills

  • Strong technical competence in Excel and data analysis tools. 
  • Proficiency with SQL for data extraction and manipulation and ability to understand ETL Flows.
  • Ability to work with disparate datasets and perform complex data matching, merging, and validation. 
  • Strong communication skills—able to explain findings to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
  • Detail‑oriented, highly organized, and able to manage multiple priorities.
  • Proven ability to learn through various methods, including instructor-led, self-taught, online learning, conferences, and books.
  • Self-starter when required, and able to deal with vague and ambiguous requirements.
  • Capable of working individually or collaboratively as part of a team.
  • Customer service oriented with the capability to develop long-lasting relationships with internal and external business partners.
  • Strong understanding of financial terminology and core accounting principles to accurately interpret datasets, reports, and operational metrics.

Organizational

  • Encourages both self and team members to continuously improve RiverStone’s data, business processes and systems, proactively suggesting ideas and solutions.
  • Consistently provides exceptional customer service to both internal and external business partners.
  • Demonstrates commitment to RiverStone’s core values and commitments.
  • Prioritizes and organizes tasks in a self-directed manner.
  • Acquires and maintains comprehensive knowledge of the assigned department.
  • Perform additional duties as needed, including collaborating with colleagues from other departments.

Experience

·      2+ years of experience in data analysis, data engineering, or analytics‑driven roles.

·      Prior experience supporting both operational and analytical use cases.

·      Experience contributing to or leading complex data initiatives.

·      Knowledge of reinsurance and claims business domains is beneficial.

·      Experience with BI/reporting platforms (e.g., Power BI) is a plus.

Required Education

Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science, data analytics, information systems, statistics, or related field.

2–5 years of experience in a data analyst, reporting analyst, or similar technical role can be substituted for a degree.

Preferred Education or Certification

Bachelors or Masters degree

Supervisory Role

Minimal, but with experience of mentoring junior team members

Travel

Minimal to none, based upon business needs with occasional trip onsite to other River Stone offices.

Work Environment / Physical Demands

This position operates in a professional, collaborative environment and must have the ability to timely produce thorough, accurate work with many competing demands, deadlines, and distractions. The position uses standard equipment such as phones, computers, copiers/printers and filing cabinets. Noise level is moderate. Other Duties (Disclaimer Statement): RiverStone retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position as needed, or other duties or responsibilities may change or be assigned as needed.

Core Competencies

 

Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Problem Solving: Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.

Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient flow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can’t; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.

Sizing Up People: Is a good judge of talent; after reasonable exposure, can articulate the strengths and limitations of people inside or outside the organization; can accurately project what people are likely to do across a variety of situations.

Ethics and Values: Adheres to an appropriate (for the setting) and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; acts in line with those values; rewards the right values and disapproves of others; practices what he/she preaches.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

RiverStone Resources, LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, LGBTQ+, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.