Senior Data Analyst

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Team: Commercial Performance

Location: Hub Based - Hybrid for all

Salary banding: £34,620 - £40,000

Experience: Mid-Level

Working pattern: Full-time

Reporting to: Linton Wadsworth - Head of Commercial Performance

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Insightful, Informative, and Supporting

Top 3 qualities for this role: Curious, Detailed and Diligent

Where you’ll work:

Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person. 

You’ll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO:

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet:

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

You will be working within the Commercial Performance team where our key focus is to ensure the Commercial function delivers our customer numbers targets driving value as we encourage our customers on the Path to Zero.

This role in a nutshell:

You will be supporting the Commercial Performance team drive value in the pursuit of Path to Zero, identifying new trends and opportunities by preparing accurate reports and analysis that unlock insight and help OVO test hypotheses, and drive change where there is value. 

Your key outcomes will be:

• Preparing the weekly and monthly performance reports with all sales and retention related data.
• Tracking and updating all key actions from key meetings
• Updating rolling forecasts each month with the latest actuals and running through the latest sales and retention submissions.
• Constantly reviewing all key forecasting assumptions, understanding rationale for changes from the business as well as validating the data with actuals.
• Managing the forecasting model configuration to ensure it reflects committed or emerging commercial strategies
• Developing decision making models to assist the wider commercial teams in ensuring decisions are made to optimise long-term value, including the allocation of spend for CAC.
• Supporting the Commercial Performance team on ad-hoc requests.
• Being a key data expert for the team - ensuring data consistency with the BI & customer retention team.

Within your first 3 months month you’ll:

• Have a working understanding of our existing models and reporting structures
• Have improved some of our newer dashboard reports
• Have an understanding of our data environment and built a network with other data analyst
• Be able to independently run our two key weekly and monthly reports

You’ll be a successful Senior Data Analyst at OVO if you…

List a number of qualities that you’re looking for in this role. Highlight in bold any key aspects.

• High proficiency in Excel/Google Sheet and experience with visualisation tools (e.g. Power B.I, Tableau)
• Good to advanced knowledge of SQL and other data retrieval tools 
• A keen eye for detail and the ability to produce high-quality deliverables.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills
• Ability to work with large data sets and to synthesise information and draw meaningful conclusions
• Ability to collaborate with others and work with a high degree of autonomy
• Experience of working in a fast paced environment where prioritisation is required
• Excellent presentation and communication skills - able to articulate results clearly and concisely to senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable navigating change and uncertainty, with a flexible working attitude.
• Experience and knowledge within the energy sector will be an advantage 
• Demonstrable experience of using data to highlight areas for improvement would be set you apart

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you:

We’ll pay you between £34,620 and £40,000, depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.