Senior analytik

Job Description

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn't work for everyone. That's why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You'll also have the flexibility to work from home.

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:

Through systematic data management and end-to-end workflow mapping, our team uncovers and eliminates operational waste. Streamlining these processes directly reduces carbon emissions, while our focus on automation and AI provides the scalable data infrastructure needed to track and accelerate the transition to net zero.

This role in a nutshell

You'll collaborate with a team of experienced analysts, led by a Principal Analyst, to create engaging MI that tells the story of our business. By partnering directly with various operational functions, you'll provide thought leadership to shape their domains and design MI that minimises data-search time and maximises decision-making capability. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive new methodologies in MI design and visualisation, ultimately building functional "playbooks for performance" so every team clearly understands how and where to measure success.

Your key outcomes will be

Data Design, Visualization & Insights

• Tailored Reporting: Design and build automated, reusable performance views, dashboards, and visualizations that provide clear trend insights for various organizational levels.
• Data Storytelling & Delivery: Extract insights and independently craft compelling narratives, confidently presenting complex data in an engaging way tailored to the audience.
• Platform Selection: Choose and deploy the right data platforms based on end-user consumption needs.

Data Governance & Pipeline Management

• Automation & Trust: Build automated data pipelines using trusted sources aligned with strict data governance standards to ensure availability, scalability, and accuracy.
• Proactive Monitoring: Automate connection monitoring to quickly resolve breakages and maintain seamless data flow.
• Regulatory Compliance: Partner with the central Regulatory team to deliver accurate, automated compliance reporting that meets all quality assurance standards.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Product Alignment: Partner with Product teams to ensure data readiness alongside new platform functionality.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Lead collaborative workshops and meetings, communicate clearly, and mentor junior team members through constructive design and code reviews.

Strategic Impact & Customer Focus

• Commercial Strategy: Align daily priorities and team vision with the broader corporate strategy, proactively challenging work that does not drive strategic value.
• Prioritization: Regularly review backlog priorities to maximize the team's impact on business goals.
• Customer-Centric Outcomes: Use data insights to identify and deliver opportunities that directly improve the customer experience.

You'll be a successful in this role here at OVO if you...

• Are comfortable in the world of telling the story of performance at a senior leadership level - effectively constructing narratives based on data analysis to effectively communicate insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Passionate about creating new insight through MI - to uncover new insights and to enhance the analytical capabilities of the organisation by providing training and support to staff on data analysis and interpretation
• Love solving complex data problems and making a difference through collaboration. Bringing the right skills together to perform analytical deep dives on business issues to identify drivers and trends, extract insight from data and clearly explain their meaning.. Applying the appropriate tools and methods to reach the best outcome and deliver the highest value impact for our customers and business.
• Are keen to develop your own skills and ways of working. We want to help enhance your skills whilst working here, and you'll have time to do this. We also run community engagement events, mentoring/coaching and there are ample opportunities for peer to peer and self led learning based around our career framework
• Have mastery of the key technical skills - Fluent with more advanced SQL features including analytic/window functions, CTEs, subqueries.. Has a good understanding of performance/processing concepts including normalisation, indexing, transactions, locking and partitioning. Knows different error handling techniques, including dealing with complexity issues. Able to build a narrative through the use of multiple visualisations that clearly present the important information and outcomes
• Are comfortable with a dynamic environment - you're confident with adapting to change and trying out new ways of working and merging new methodologies
• Challenge the status quo - you're continuously looking to improve and build something great
• Enjoy working in cross-functional teams - we're all about collaboration and working together to understand and solve problems.

Let's talk about what's in it for you

We'll pay you between £45,000 and £55,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

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..