Smart Metering Data Analyst

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Team: Smart, Revenue Assurance and PAYG Data Insights

Salary banding: £30,000 - £41,000

Experience: Mid

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Ben Pomeroy

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

This role in 3 words:: Engaging. Ownership. Problem solver

Top 3 qualities for this role: Communication. Organisation. Resilience

Where you’ll work:

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:

By proactively working with the team to improve performance across smart meters you will be directly positively impacting our customers and their ability to track their energy usage, in turn helping them use less energy.

This role in a nutshell:

This role sits within the Smart Metering business unit working within the Smart, Revenue Assurance and PAYG Back Office Analytics team. The role focuses on supporting the Performance and Data Insights team to report on and monitor Smart meter performance across a variety of metrics.

The purpose of this role is to provide data analysis to understand our performance, highlight areas to focus on, as well as building reporting to monitor the performance. You will support in maintaining a backlog of work, and prioritising areas dependent on the demands of stakeholders.

This role will also play a vital part in the development and refinement of user stories, analysis of the outcomes from changes, validation of data and supporting the migration of data.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Provide insightful data analysis to help define user stories and their acceptance criteria
• Work with third parties and internal stakeholders to review changes and understand the impact of changes on any in-flight projects;
• Monitor project performance regularly and generate reports;
• Act as a center of knowledge for Smart and PAYG to support with insight and development of solutions both within the Smart/RA/PAYG teams, with other internal stakeholders and third party providers.

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

• Good working knowledge of key MI tools including BigQuery, Tableau & Looker studio, Github & Dataform
• Can confidently write SQL code to extract data in various formats
• Good working knowledge of Excel / Google Sheets
• Confidence in building and communicating significant data visualisations 
• An ability to use data to make informed decisions and recommendations
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Confident in problem solving and collaborating with different organisations
• Excellent analytical skills
• Understanding of agile methods

Ideally you will have…

• An understanding of smart metering systems for SMETS2 (DCC, Adapters etc.)
• An understanding of PAYG
• A strong understanding of software development and system automation  
• Experience working with complex systems\ large numerical datasets and full life cycle experience
• 1+ years experience similar data or analytical role

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £30,000 and £41,000, 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..