Performance Analyst

Performance Analyst

Department: Strategy & Corporate Affairs

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: London/Leeds/Birmingham

Reporting To: Strategy & Performance Manager

Compensation: Circa £48,000

Description Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week Salary: circa £48,000 depending on experience Location: London, Leeds, or Birmingham offices WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week Flexible working: Variety of flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion e.g. Compressed 9-day fortnight. Reports to: Strategy & Performance Manager
Deadline Note: We reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised deadline if there are a high volume of applications.

Role Summary:

The Performance Team has recently been created and will play a central role in ensuring the company is delivering against its goals and objectives. The key activities of the team include:

• Responsible for comprehensive performance reporting across the company.
• Continuously enhance and refine the company's performance framework.
• Ensuring a robust way of working across the company is in place
• Leveraging continuous improvement to enhance our processes and overall performance.

The Performance Analyst will report directly to the Strategy & Development Performance Manager and is expected to collaborate closely with both fellow directorate members and other departments within the organisation. This role is pivotal, as the team play a central part in ensuring that the department functions efficiently through a well-regulated performance management framework. You will take a proactive approach in identifying areas where intervention is necessary to facilitate successful outcomes across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities

• Performance reporting: development and routine population of the company and department wide reporting; including but not limited to - company scorecard, management information pack, directorate wide performance monitoring, delivery against milestones and objectives, resource/succession planning.
• Project management and delivery: responsible for leading and delivering key projects to time, cost and quality, specifically those that cut across the breadth of the department. i.e. knowledge sharing programmes.
• Central coordination: of key programmes of work being delivered across the department to ensure (where applicable) there is a standardised and centralised approach to delivery. This will also involve being the beholder of the central plan and roadmap for the financial year, as well as ensuring that knowledge is maintained and shared via an appropriate fashion across the department (and wider).
• Infrastructure development: support the wider team in the provision of tools, techniques and wider infrastructure to enable sufficient planning and tracking of outcomes/accountabilities. There should also be a longer term ambition to systemise and automate where applicable.
• Governance: continue to evolve and run governance arrangements to ensure the team work within a suitable framework. As necessary, there will also be a requirement to engage other departments across the business to ensure accountabilities are defined and that handover / transition plans are coordinated and documented.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise Essential:

• Degree educated or 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Good awareness of the current energy landscape and how LCCC/ESC fit into the broader picture.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment, both on a proactive and reactive basis.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Excellent Excel skills.
• Confidence and experience in engaging with internal stakeholders, internal Executive Committee and Company Board members.
• Results focused, with the ability to translate objectives into plans that can be communicated and reported on to senior members of staff across the company.
• A continuous improvement mindset, as well as being goal oriented and focused on outcomes and value add activities - ensuring the team are aligned to core priorities and objectives.
• Evidence of process-led thinking to help craft outcomes
• Proven experience of being able to analyse and present the data to a wide range of stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Experience of using Power BI to present data to across all levels of an organisation.
• A Change Management Qualification e.g PRINCE2, LEAN.

Employee Benefits As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. Key benefits that may be available depending on the role include:

• Annual performance based bonus, up to 10%
• 25 days annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
• Up to 8% pension contribution
• Financial support and time off for study relevant to your role, plus a professional membership subscription
• Employee referral scheme (up to £1500), and colleague recognition scheme
• Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave and shared parental leave
• Free, confidential employee assistance, including financial management, family care, mental health, and on-call GP service
• Three paid volunteering days a year
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
• Family savings on days out and English Heritage, gym discounts, cash back and discounts at selected retailers
• Employee resource groups