Data Analyst Leicester, England
Job description
At British Gas our customers and our colleagues are our priority. Our mission is to provide energy services and solutions to our customers Sustainably, Affordably and Simply. It’s what we do best. We’re proud to live our values every single day. We care. We’re courageous. We collaborate with each other.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Analyst to join the Transmission & Distribution (T&D) team who are responsible for the payment, validation and reporting of gas costs.
Working as part of our team, you will help us to protect Centrica’s costs and provide assurance the charges we pay networks are correct. Our aim is to investigate where our data differs from our industry partners and confirm which details are correct, make amendments to our data or recover historic industry costs.
You will be gaining insight from large volumes of high dimensional data in order to investigate and understand complex business problems.
To succeed in this role, you will be comfortable with various data preparation, modelling, analysis and/or visualisation techniques, such as statistical analysis, predictive modelling and pattern recognition as well as being confident using, SQL, SAS, VBA and access.
Key Accountabilities:
Review and validation of Gas Transportation (GTs) invoices.
Raise informed challenges to GTs.
Supporting the gas systems manager with the management of industry data flows.
Raise process issues to internal business areas to improve future working practise and avoid future costs.
Analyse and problem solve using data sets to identify process improvements and root causes of issues and implement appropriate solutions
Work with third party agents, building relationships and gathering information to resolve issues relating to the accuracy of data.
Build strong stakeholder relationships with internal and external parties, focussing on clear and effective communication.
Knowledge & Experience required:
An understanding of the UK Gas market would be preferable
An understanding of gas data flows and industry processes.
Confident user of SQL or SAS.
Confident with Microsoft Excel and Access
VBA desirable but not essential
SAP desirable but not essential
Location is flexible however you will be required to travel to our Leicester and Windsor office when required to attend meetings and collaborate.
In return we offer:
Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
Excellent Pension scheme
Electric car lease scheme
- 33 days holiday allowance, inclusive of public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days
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At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!
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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.
