Data & Insights Lead

If youre interested in making a difference to peoples lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.

Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more. At the Government Debt Management Function you will be helping ensure efficient public sector debt recovery, working closely with departments on behalf of the taxpayer while providing support to those in need of additional assistance during the collection process.

We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a cross-government hub bringing people together to tackle key national issues while working closer to the communities we serve.

As Debt Data and Insights Lead, you will own the GDMFs programme of data analysis, insight and sharing of good practice. This is a key element of the new 2026-30 Government Debt Management Strategy. Your work will ensure we have robust data management processes in place and produce the high-quality reports and visualisations that support decision-making by senior leaders.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to take an innovative and creative approach to data analysis, harnessing new methods, tools, and data sources to unlock deeper insights. We will rely on you to generate actionable intelligence that strengthens decision‑making across the debt portfolio.

You will work across boundariesengaging operational departments, analysts, policy teams, finance colleagues, and functional leadersto turn data into clear findings, practical recommendations, and measurable improvements.

We are looking for people who have the right set of skills for the role, demonstrating excellence in quantitative analysis, data management, data visualisation, and evaluation. Operating within this role you will be encouraged to run projects to a high standard and deliver high-quality outputs, while influencing interested parties.

Key Accountabilities for this role include:

• Being responsible for debt data collection from departments, covering performance, efficiency and fairness metrics, ensuring data quality processes are maintained.
• Carrying out exciting quantitative analysis to understand trends in government debt portfolios, including volumes, values, flows, segmentation, and performance over time.
• Translating analysis into actionable insight for a range of audiences (operational teams, policy colleagues, senior leaders). We need you to develop and maintain a clear narrative on what the data is telling us, including key risks, opportunities, and emerging issues.
• Developing high-quality dashboards, visualisations and briefing products to communicate performance and insight clearly and accurately, bringing data together from different sources.
• Leading evaluation activity to assess functional interventions (toolkits, standards, training, assurance activity, departmental improvement plans) and to ensure we build evaluation into our work from the beginning.
• Building strong working relationships with debt leads analysts, digital/data teams, operational delivery leaders, and functional colleagues across government, including taking the lead in running the cross-government data board.
• Contributing to cross-government forums and working groups, representing our evidence and insight perspective. The contributions you make will be crucial in improving consistency of data definitions and reporting, recognising differences in systems and operational contexts.
• Supporting departments across government in embracing current good practice and innovation in use of data for debt management purposes, drawing from the private sector and from across government.

Candidate Drop-In Session

The hiring manager will be running a candidate drop-in session to give you greater insight about the role and HM Treasury and ask any questions you might have. If you would like to join us, use the link below to join the call at the right time.

Wednesday 1st July 2026 at 15:30

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/325690883669458?p=ygaXGTcB8RKXOeh7W6

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date, please contact: Joseph Surtees: [email protected]

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Application Stage

Application Form

Applications should consist of a CV including your employment history, and a 250-word statement demonstrating evidence of each of the below shortlisting criteria. Your CV and employment history wont be scored. Its used to give context to your application and support discussions at interview.

The panel will review applications and invite those that best demonstrate evidence of the shortlisting criteria below for interview. Please keep this in mind when writing your application.

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

Experience:

1. Experience Demonstrated experience in leading the development and application of data analysis approaches, with a proven ability to translate complex data sets, analytical frameworks, and strategic objectives into clear, actionable insights that drive effective operational decision-making

Behaviours:

2. Working together: The ability to build relationships across departments and with delivery partners to align approaches and implement projects consistently.

3. Changing and improving: The ability to seek out opportunities to create effective change and suggest innovative ideas for improvements in the management of debt owed to government.

4. Communicating and Influencing: Communicate purpose and direction with clarity, integrity and enthusiasm. Respect the needs, responses and opinions of others.

The lead criterion is: Experience

If we receive a high volume of applications, well first sift using the lead criterion only. Those meeting the minimum score will then be assessed against all remaining criteria.

Interview Stage

If you are successful at the application stage, you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Experience
• Behaviours: Working Together, Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing

Interview Task / Presentation

Prior to your interview, we will contact you about a task / presentation that the panel would like you to deliver as part of the assessment. Further details will be communicated to you nearer the time.