Portfolio Analyst

Team: Portfolio Analytics

Salary banding: £35,000 - £50,000 

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

Where you’ll work:

Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person. 

You’ll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

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:

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 £35,000 and £50,000, 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.