Business Analyst
Description
Do you want to work to make Power for Good?
We're the world's largest independent renewable energy company. We're guided by a simple yet powerful vision: to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.
We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we're tackling some of the world's toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They're our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them.
RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their career they're at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.
Our competitive package offers rewards and benefits including pension schemes, flexible working, and top-down emphasis on better work-life balance. We also offer private healthcare, discounted green travel, 24 days holiday (with an additional discretionary day given by the company) with options to buy/sell days, enhanced family leave and four volunteering days per year so you can make an impact somewhere else.
Role Summary
Reporting to the Head of Business Operations – Digital Solutions. This high-profile role will be critical in helping develop and implement the strategy of RES Digital Solutions, developing evidence-based arguments and translating these into a high quality and concise dialogue and presentations.
This position will work with RES Digital Solutions Leadership and Senior Management team across the global business to provide insight, market intelligence, and understanding on the market, M&A and commercial business cases.
The candidate should be able to demonstrate a sound ability to understand and breakdown problems, to identify potential solutions, to develop a clear plan to implement solutions, and to present these in a clear and concise manner to senior leaders.
Key Accountabilities
Strategy and Initiatives, Planning and Execution:
- Support the Head of Business Operations in developing and driving strategy, critical initiatives and programs that span across the global organisation
- Develop compelling arguments, translating these into a high-quality dialogue with the business and presentations for a Senior Executive audience
- Provide leadership with an independent, integrated perspective of the internal and external marketplace of topics or projects you are responsible for, facilitating informed challenge and discussions
- Ensure competitive strategy is at the heart of RES by implementing world-class standards for rigorous planning and sound decision-making
- Coordinate research and analysis for key projects, including, but not limited to, M&A Due Diligence, competitor / customer analysis, market trends, and technology portfolio optimisation
Foundational Commercial Expertise:
- Ensure business cases for new products and services are consistent, accurate, and decisions on investment are made on the best information via a co-ordinated set of metrics, assumptions, and outputs
- Support the sales and marketing team in analysing pricing and bid data to validate pricing strategies
- Support the R&D team in analysing grants and funding opportunities
- Support in procurement processes and supplier cost management
Project Support:
- Support in the progression of complex projects with varied timescales
- Promote operational excellence: identify and drive opportunities to optimise our organisational systems, data collection and processes with a focus on agility through implementation of the Enterprise Resource Planning System
Communications, Collaboration and Campaigns:
- Use exceptional business and communication skills to translate vision into action
- Monitor and track global news-flow around RES’s markets and competitors, drawing insights from trends, to ensure senior executives are informed of emerging opportunities and threats and those individuals that interact with our key customers have the information they need to deepen relationships.
- Support in raising awareness of RES Digital Solutions products and services
Knowledge, Skills, Experience
- Strong, relevant experience in strategy, consulting, commercial or analyst roles
- Consistent record of delivering results
- Experience in working closely with and presenting to senior leadership
- Relevant sector experience in energy and renewable energy sectors or a demonstrable foundational knowledge of these sectors
- Experience of reporting in a highly professional environment
- Ability to learn quickly within a fast-paced team, including highly technical topics
- Strong organisational and project management skills with flexibility to prioritise
- Intellectual curiosity paired with a high growth-mindset
- Reputation for getting things done effectively
- Team-player with ability to dig into the details as well as see the big picture
- Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to navigate complex situations
- Exceptional communication skills to simplify jargon heavy areas for a range of audiences and non-specialists
- Integrity, professionalism, and discretion when handling confidential information
- Excellent written English and oral communication skills
- Strong design and aesthetic capabilities with attention to detail with experience in PowerPoint
- Experience building commercial, financial models and business cases
- Ability to work in an ambiguous environment with a willingness to stretch yourself outside typical role boundaries
Leadership
- Lives the Values; Enables Excellence; Demonstrates Active Care
- Fosters and demonstrates a workplace inclusive of creating opportunity, serving others, building trust, innovation, and exceeding expectations
- Participates in hiring and selection process to fill positions on the team if required
- Creates and regularly communicates a compelling vision of what’s possible and how to accomplish it
- Communicates regularly with direct reports on KPIs, goals, accomplishments, and information on policies
- Acts as mentor and coach to develop team and build capabilities for present and future
- Provides tasks and assignments that challenge and stretch employees’ responsibilities
- Conducts regular discussions with employee(s) on personal development. Comfortable with empowering others
- Conducts timely, effective performance reviews in accordance with RES guidelines
- Acts as subject matter expert and advisor to RES Senior Leadership and wider teams on ESG
At RES we celebrate difference as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience of our people.
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