Team: Portfolio Analytics

Salary banding: £35k - £50k 

Experience: Learner or Mid-level

Working pattern: Full-Time

This role in 3 words: Impact. Collaboration. Ownership

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

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 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:

The Portfolio Analytics team is responsible for providing clear, accurate and detailed reporting on our energy portfolio, including energy usage, revenues and costs. We seek to harness this data to identify opportunities to optimise costs or reduce leakages throughout the business.

By ensuring OVO can efficiently deliver value to its customers, the work the team does ensures OVO is able to invest in Plan Zero technologies. We perform analysis on energy usage trends to support the development of innovative tariffs and products.

This role in a nutshell:

Working within the Portfolio Analytics team in Finance, you will work on diverse and high value projects impacting many areas of the business.

In Portfolio Analytics you will use modern analytic and data engineering tools, combined with a deep understanding of the industry, to solve critical problems throughout the business. We use a wide range of tools including SQL (Bigquery), Python, Git and Tableau. Technical development is a key focus within the team and we are always seeking to learn and implement 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 can be guaranteed to have an impact in this role.

Your key outputs will be:

You will work in a team of ~10 analysts with a wide range of skills and knowledge and will have the opportunity to work collaboratively on large projects as well as having ownership of processes and delivering analysis independently. 

By manipulating large datasets of customer usage and financial data, you will provide detailed reporting and assurance on our revenue and costs, and identify leakages.

Within your first 6 months month you’ll:

• Have produced detailed analysis on high value business 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

You’ll be a successful Portfolio Analyst here at OVO if you…

• 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

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £35k and £50k, 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.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits. Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

 For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and moreFor your wellbeingWith gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donationsFor your home  Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargersFor 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..