Portfolio Analyst in Glasgow

Overview

• Role: OVO-View
• Team: Portfolio Analytics
• Salary banding: £35000 - £50000
• Experience: Mid-level
• Working pattern: Full-Time
• Reporting to: Senior Portfolio Analyst
• Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Impact. Collaboration. Ownership

Top 3 qualities for this role: Determined. Detail Oriented. Inquisitive

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.

Belonging and inclusion: At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. We need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Team purpose: Teamworking for the planet. Everything we do spins around Plan Zero. The Portfolio Analytics team provides clear, accurate and detailed reporting on our energy portfolio, including energy usage, revenues and costs. We seek to identify opportunities to optimise costs or reduce leakages throughout the business. This work helps OVO invest in Plan Zero technologies and supports development of innovative tariffs and products.

This role in a nutshell: Within the Portfolio Analytics team in Finance, you will work on diverse and high value projects impacting many areas of the business. You will use modern analytic and data engineering tools, with a deep understanding of the energy industry, to solve critical problems. We use SQL (BigQuery), Python, Git and Tableau. Technical development is a key focus, and we are always learning and implementing the latest tools and best practices, as well as upskilling team members.

Working with senior stakeholders to understand, summarise and visualise complex problems, and using data to inform and influence business decisions, you will have an impact in this role.

Your key outcomes: You will work in a team of approximately 10 analysts with a wide range of skills and knowledge and will have the opportunity to collaborate on large projects as well as own processes and deliver analyses independently. By manipulating large datasets of customer usage and financial data, you will provide detailed reporting and assurance on revenue and costs, and identify leakages.

First 6 months:

• Have produced detailed analysis on high value topics such as Revenue Leakage and Energy Gross Margin.
• Collaborated with other team members to develop expertise and deliver value in a wider range of areas.
• Raised your profile among key stakeholders.
• Gained insightful knowledge of the energy retail industry.

Role requirements:

• Have a strong mathematical or analytical background
• Confident managing and manipulating large amounts of data
• Experience in core analysis technologies, ideally excellent SQL skills and programming with Python or similar
• Drive to learn and develop new skills to suit the work
• Demonstrable high attention to detail
• Ability to take ownership of projects to build complex new models
• Transparent work that makes things simple for the wider team
• A creative thinker who thrives off direct responsibility and delivering value

What’s in it for you: We’ll pay you between £35000 and £50000, depending on your skills and experience. If your expectations are different, have a chat with us. We keep pay ranges broad to match experience to our zero carbon mission. You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan focusing on collective performance toward our Plan Zero goal. We offer green benefits and progressive policies to help you belong at OVO, including 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary (4% auto-enrolled into pension, 5% flexible). This can be used for a range of benefits, including our green benefits, or taken as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

• 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
• Health and wellbeing benefits (healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more)
• Gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more
• Extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and charity donations
• Up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers
• Great deals on ultra-low emission car leasing, cycle to work and public transport season ticket loans

If you have additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form. Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.