Business Data Analyst - Contract

Reports to job title: Digitalisation Programme Manager
Directorate: Finance
Job Location: Rainton Bridge, Sunderland, London, Edinburgh
Hybrid opportunity
6-month contract
£500-550/day inside IR35

Nature and Scope

Work within an IT project delivery function taking responsibility for supporting the delivery of data-specific improvements and solutions to the renewable energy business, ensuring requirements are captured and met and solutions are fit for purpose and fully adopted by the business.
Job Purpose

The Business Data Analyst role will support a major ‘Digitalisation’ programme of work improving the IT solutions and services supporting and enabling the business. This role will provide the bridge between the project delivery team and the business, providing technical analysis through the delivery of the Data workstream in line with business needs, ensuring discovery, analysis, and presentation of data in collaboration with key stakeholders.

Operating Environment

The company is a joint venture responsible for delivering the UK strategy in renewables and managing all related activities. They develop, construct, and operate renewable assets, aiming for continuous and sustainable growth.
Framework & Boundaries

• The Digitalisation programme aims to improve the digital maturity of the company by delivering key digital improvements to the business, particularly focusing on data management.
• Key to the success of this role is capturing the current state and requirements from the business to support designing and building technology platforms required for the target state of the business, ensuring they are fit for purpose and drive business successes in the future.

Key Accountabilities

• Support in a discovery activity to understand the current business data repositories, use cases, and reports.
• Lead requirements gathering workshops and other methods to elicit, define, and document requirements needed for data-driven change initiatives.
• Work with key business stakeholders to prioritize business and information needs.
• Identify and define new process improvement opportunities.
• Support in the development and implementation of databases, data collection systems, data analytics, and other strategies to optimize data efficiency and quality.
• Create visual representations of data findings through charts, graphs, and dashboards to make the data understandable at a glance.
• Assist the business in preparing reports and presentations to communicate insights and findings from the data to stakeholders, influencing policy and decision-making processes.
• Collaborate with the business to understand their data needs and help them make informed decisions based on data insights

Person Specification
Knowledge and experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Data Analyst role.
• Excellent understanding of data governance and its role in delivering service assurance.
• Extensive experience facilitating requirements gathering workshops.
• Proficient in process mapping for As-Is/To-Be business processes.
• Skilled in data mapping/modeling and other data analysis techniques.
• Experience in building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, and metadata.

Functional/technical skills

• Highly motivated to deliver results and meet deadlines.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively convey technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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