Analytics Tracking Code – Help

I’ve searched and have read various threads here regarding Analytics code placement, etc. I’m still in need of help. I’m placing the script provided by Analytics into the area in theme panel, but theme panel says it places it in body and Analytics says to put it as first in HEAD. Is this an issue? I don’t seem to be seeing any analytics data.

I’m placing this in the Theme Panel (modified to remove sensitive data)

<!– Global site tag (gtag.js) – Google Analytics –>
<script async src=”https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-XXXXXX”></script&gt;
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag(‘js’, new Date());

gtag(‘config’, ‘UA-XXXXXX’);
</script>

Is this what I should be putting in this place in the theme panel?