Portfolio Data Analyst

Location: London – Full-time

Reporting to: Associate Director

Department: Energy & Infrastructure

Work Conditions: To apply, you must have the full right to work in the UK. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

About Downing

Downing is dedicated to delivering investments that matter – for our economy, our health, our society, our local communities and our environment. For over 35 years, our highly experienced team and our entrepreneurial spirit has driven us to seek out long‑term and unique opportunities that solve challenges faced by investors, companies and society. Our 200‑plus employees drive our vision of long‑term value creation, which we achieve by being bold, straightforward and ambitious. Guided by these principles we have a broad range of investment opportunities.

About the team

The Downing Energy and Infrastructure (E&I) Data Team is a team of three who own, control and report on the data for the full Energy and Infrastructure team. This will involve monitoring renewable energy systems ensuring they are operating and working efficiently, collecting the data from these systems monthly to feed into reporting for the wider E&I Team and ensuring the IT systems used by the E&I Team are up to date and fit for use. The Data team aims to improve process through data automation, extracting insights from data to add value and lead projects to aid the wider team.

Role and responsibilities

• Monitoring assets across Solar, Wind, Hydro and Storage technologies within the renewable energy portfolio.
• Extraction of data from monitoring systems and comparison between data sets, to ensure accurate and timely technical KPI’s are produced each month.
• Using this data to find actionable insights across the technologies and the commercial teams.
• Production of useful and insightful regular reporting, with the intention that it drives priorities and therefore optimisation across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring sites on a regular basis via Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems to ensure sites are performing in line with expectations.
• Independently conducting data analysis of assets and coordinating with external contractors.
• Creating and presenting data to the wider team using visualisation tools such as Power BI.
• Production of complete, accurate and timely technical performance data.
• Supporting automation and efficiency improvement projects for internal processes.
• Support in project management for a variety of tasks spanning across the full Downing Energy and Infrastructure team.
• Support in analysis around data risk and compliance across a varied portfolio that includes different data streams.
• To act as an ambassador for Downing’s values, and to always behave in a respectful and professional manner.

Education, experience and skills

• Effective communication skills with the ability to explain analysis to non-technical team members.
• Proficiency in Excel is required.
• Experience working with a visualisation tool, ideally Power BI/Tableau (preferred but not required).
• Experience in coding (ideally python) is preferred.

Personal characteristics

• Keen interest in renewable energy.
• Self‑starter who is passionate about data & insights.
• Problem solving attitude with the confidence to challenge existing processes.
• Strong teamwork and organisational skills.
• Attention to detail ensuring accuracy and thoroughness in tasks.

Hybrid working

Downing operates a hybrid working policy whereby employees are expected to work from the office for a minimum of 3 days each week. If specific days are required in the office, this will be communicated during the interview process.

Diversity and inclusion

At Downing, we work hard to create a safe space for everyone: an environment for people to be themselves, and to be straightforward, honest and candid. Diversity is important to us, and we are passionate about creating an inclusive culture that supports and celebrates this.

Reasonable adjustments

We will make reasonable adjustments within our recruitment process (and throughout employment) where needed. If you need any adjustments at any stage of our recruitment process, please do not hesitate to speak to the hiring manager or Downing’s People Team.

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