Senior Data Analyst in Leicester

Join us, be part of more. We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

About your team: At British Gas, our mission is to sell it and mend it. We’ve been powering the UK’s homes and businesses for over 200 years – but supplying energy is just part of what we do. We’re making the UK greener and more energy efficient, getting closer to Net Zero. By using clever tech like thermostats, heat pumps, solar panels and EV chargers, we’re making it cheaper and easier for our customers to reduce their carbon footprint.

Flexible / Hybrid working. Full-Time – Permanent. We work in a hybrid, Flexible First way—typically spending most of our week working from home but meeting within a Centrica office every quarter (generally Leicester). Whether you need to adjust your hours to fit your lifestyle or have specific needs that require a tailored schedule, we’re here to accommodate. Let’s work together to find a solution that works for you and benefits the team.

The Team: We are an analytics team that partners closely with the business to turn data into insight, decisions, and measurable value. Our purpose is to build a truly data‑driven culture where analytics is accessible, trusted, and integrated into everyday operations. We design high‑quality dashboards, reports, and data stories that deliver clarity and drive action. Acting as an extension of our stakeholders’ teams, we collaborate to spot opportunities, support performance, and enable better decision‑making. Working alongside our data colleagues, we create robust, scalable data products and take ownership of BAU reporting, Power BI dashboards, standards, and continuous improvement.

Key Accountabilities of the role:

• Analyse structured data to identify trends, insights, and opportunities that drive measurable business value.
• Design, build, and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and data stories that meet agreed analytics and visualisation standards.
• Contribute to and work with analytical data models to support scalable reporting and insight.
• Partner closely with data engineers and other data professionals to ensure analytics are built on robust, well-governed data foundations.
• Validate data, metrics, and outputs to ensure accuracy, consistency, and trust.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their data requirements.
• Translate analytical findings into clear insights, recommendations, and actions for stakeholders.
• Support BAU reporting and RFIs while continuously improving automation and reducing manual effort.
• Document data definitions, metrics, models, and analytics outputs in line with team standards.
• Actively contribute to the improvement of analytics ways of working, standards, and data products.
• Present findings and strategic recommendations to senior business stakeholders.
• Mentor & guide data analysts.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience working in a data team.
• Advanced SQL & data modelling skills.
• Experience building analytics on top of a data warehouse or centralised data platform.
• Strong Power BI experience, including: Semantic/data modelling, DAX measures and Performance-aware report design.
• Strong understanding of data quality, validation, and metric consistency.
• Experience delivering analytics outputs that are scalable, reusable, and production-ready.
• Comfortable working within shared standards, documentation, and collaborative data environments.
• Experience with statistical and mathematical methodologies.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Redshift).
• Understanding of ELT/ETL processes and data pipelines.
• Experience measuring and tracking the success of analytics or data products.
• Exposure to automation or AI-enabled analytics where it adds clear value.
• Strong experience in data storytelling to technical and non-technical audiences.

Technical Capabilities:

• Expert data analysis capabilities, drawing insight from information.
• Expert data visualisation and reporting skills.
• Expert proficiency in Excel and SQL skills.
• Experience of data technologies (e.g. Azure, SQL Server).
• Strong experience with statistical and mathematical methodologies.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Strategic thinking on how Insight & Analytics can solve business challenges.
• Strong influential communication with internal and external stakeholders, with a data storytelling ability.
• Can work on well-defined data analysis tasks, completing them accurately and on time.
• Can work alone but also within a team, and thrives in a fast-paced changing environment.
• Growth mindset with an eagerness to learn.

Why should you apply? We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too.

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.