UK Power Networks Hiring for Finance BI Analyst Job at Crawley, West Sussex, South East England, England Full Time

Finance Business Intelligence Manager

Function

Networks Finance

Location

Energy House, Crawley

Reference Number

62967

Employment Period

Permanent

Contract Type

Personal Contract

CiP Level / Bonus

5%

Starting Salary

£37,000 – Plus benefits and bonus

Closing Date

17/01/2022

All applications will be reviewed after the closing date

We also offer :
Annual leave 25 days

Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)

Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme

Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Occupational Health support

Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.

Supplier discounts, such as O2, EE, Vauxhall cars, Universal tyres

Discounted access to sports and social clubs

Employee Assistance Programme

Job Purpose

This role sits within the Business Partnering Finance team and will support the Finance Business Intelligence Manager in identifying and developing original reports and processes to analyse and provide action-oriented insights to the business. To support Finance in developing and embedding a culture of high-performance innovation across all aspects of the directorate.

Dimensions

This role will target the optimisation of the financial reporting and analytical capabilities of the UK Power Networks Finance function. Focussing on improving the understanding of the TOTEX spending in RIIO-ED1 of £6.4 billion and how we as company can prepare ourselves for the next regulatory price control (ED2).

Generating improvements by automation and standardisation across the directorate by working with multiple teams within and outside of Finance.

Principal Accountabilities

Understand how financial data is used across the business and how we can develop reporting to assist in this.

Supporting in the identification, definition and quantification of next generation insights to help support the Finance Business Partnering team in answering analytical questions.

Use technical skills to process and analyse large amounts of data with a desire to learn new applications and technologies to remain at the forefront of this fast-moving field.

Identify opportunities and areas for attention and recommend options for action and help implement any improvements needed

Improve the data extraction and analytical skills of the department by gaining a thorough understanding of the data tables and recent reporting developments and passing this on through training and knowledge sharing.

Using the insights developed through our analytical work, quantify and translate the performance improvements into business language i.e. monetary and other internal/regulatory KPIs

Visualising and communicating the insights back to the business in simple, tailored formats

Nature and Scope

The nature of this work is to provide data manipulation and analytical support across Finance Business Partnering and the wider business as required.

This is a professional role which includes liaising throughout the business and involves communicating with non-financial managers. You will be expected to have excellent communication skills and a professional attitude to work and those with whom you deal.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

A repertoire of analytical software such as, but not limited to: R, Python, SQL, and PowerBI

Excellent inter-personal and presentational skills

Proven track record of successfully delivering analytical assignments

Strong analytical and written skills are required to enable the ability to work across consultation and regulatory requirements

The ability to work with all levels of the business from front line staff through to Directors, adapting the level of detail, tone etc. to match

A desire to seek to understand more and ask questions to ensure data is accurate and the answers being given are correct

Highly numerate and methodical with attention to detail and accuracy

An understanding of accounting principles (for example AAT or part qualified ACCA/CIMA) would be beneficial but not required

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they fully understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and particularly where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

Employees need to be aware that for some craft and operational roles that work at height, or use fall arrest devices, there is an upper weight limit of 116Kg due to maximum safe working load of the safety equipment that is used.

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