Senior Regulatory Data Analyst

OVO Group
Glasgow
3 days ago
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This role in 3 words

Analytical, Collaborative, Insight

Top 3 qualities for this role

Organisation, Detail-oriented, Communication

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:

We’re hiring world-changers. The Regulation team plays a critical role in understanding and influencing the boundaries within which we operate, ensuring we are able to affect and adapt to industry change. The Regulatory Reporting team is responsible for providing accurate reporting to our regulator and using that data to provide insight to the rest of the business. Our clear focus is to enable OVO to drive progress and support customers on our Zero Carbon journey.

This role in a nutshell

You will lead OVO’s small but important regulatory reporting and data insight unit, ensuring that OVO meets its regulated reporting obligations through the development, delivery and maintenance of a wide suite of reporting capabilities. You’ll work with colleagues from across the business to deliver robust and accurate data sets for submission to external stakeholders such as Ofgem and government, while also building out key value-add insights to support business decision making through the surfacing of key risks and opportunities.

Your key outcomes will be
  • Coordinating and managing the Regulatory Reporting workload between yourself and a supporting analyst, delivering a strategic agenda that contributes to our team and business objectives.
  • Owning the coordination and submission of core regulatory data reports to external bodies such as Ofgem, DESNZ and Citizens Advice, including creation, maintenance and robust validation of data sets to ensure a high level of accuracy.
  • Continuous review of reporting sources to ensure robust and accurate data, aligning with Ofgem’s Market Data requirements and internal best practice.
  • Lead on developing and providing insight to support business awareness and decision making, including the creation and maintenance of business facing regulatory insight dashboards that provide a “regulator’s view” of OVO to senior stakeholders.
  • Create and maintain positive relationships with external regulatory bodies.
  • Provide analytical support to other business units, such as Regulatory Schemes (ECO, Warm Home Discount and Feed-in-Tariff) and operational teams.
  • Managing compliance with internal governance processes to ensure submissions are appropriately reviewed and approved by the right stakeholders prior to submission.
  • Collaborate with colleagues across the business to provide commentary to regulators and external stakeholders on trends and anomalies within submissions as necessary.
  • Analyse and distill complex datasets, communicating key findings to senior stakeholders to ensure awareness of key areas of regulatory risk and opportunity.
You’ll be a successful Regulatory Data & Insight Analyst here at OVO if you…
  • Have proven experience in a similar data or analytical role, with an in-depth knowledge of key data analysis tools such as BigQuery, Dataform, SQL, GitHub, and advanced MS Excel / Google Sheets abilities
  • Are highly numerate and analytical with an ability to delve into the details while also understanding the strategic view.
  • Have good data visualisation skills, using tools such as Looker Studio, Tableau and Thoughtspot (or similar software) to provide meaningful and insightful data representations.
  • Have strong organisational and time management skills, allowing you to be comfortable working to challenging external deadlines, with the ability to handle multiple workstreams at the same time.
  • Have exceptional attention to detail and high data validation standards - accurate and timely submissions are a key obligation of OVO’s licence to supply energy.
  • Have excellent presentation and communication skills, being able to clearly articulate complex data trends and insights to stakeholders of all levels.
  • Are a good relationship builder, comfortable working collaboratively in cross-organisational teams to deliver complex data requests from Ofgem and other external stakeholders.
  • Are a great team player and self-starter comfortable working both autonomously and with colleagues to deliver team and business objectives.
  • Experience in people and team management is desirable, and a foundational understanding of the energy sector would be beneficial.
Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £48,500 and £60,000, depending on your specific skills and experience.

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.


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