Data Analyst

Southern Housing; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A major UK housing provider is seeking a Retrofit Data Analyst to manage Retrofit Programmes, ensuring compliance with data reporting requirements to external funding bodies. The successful candidate will analyze data to evaluate the performance of homes before and after retrofit works, collaborating with various internal teams and working in a hybrid model. This permanent position is based in either Farringdon or Sittingbourne, offering salary plus benefits.

Benefits

Pension

Life assurance

Healthcare cash plan

Eyecare & dental

Birthday leave

Retailers discounts

Cycle to work

Buy & sell annual leave

Season ticket loan

In-house academy & career development

Flexible working

Qualifications

• Experience in collecting large amounts of performance data and formulating next steps.
• Financial acumen and experience with budget analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage monitoring of Retrofit Programmes and collate data.
• Draft and submit Project Change Requests and finance reviews.
• Analyze data to assess performance of homes post-retrofit.

Skills

Experience in reporting to external funding bodies

Expertise in Excel and data reporting

Strong negotiation and influencing skills

Effective interpersonal and communication skills

Job description

Retrofit Data Analyst

• £42,000 pa + benefits
• Farringdon or Sittingbourne hybrid working

This role is being advertised as a Retrofit Data Analyst, but on appointment your job title will be Retrofit Reporting Lead

As the Retrofit Data Analyst, you will be responsible for managing the monitoring of Retrofit Programmes, including collation and reporting of data to external funding bodies, drafting and submitting Project Change Requests and quarterly finance reviews, and monitoring project progress against KPIs. You will lead Southern Housing s monitoring and evaluation strategy, analysing consumption, temperature, and humidity data to assess the performance of homes before and after retrofit works. This will involve identifying the effectiveness of retrofit delivery and any performance gaps in line with PAS2035 standards. Collaboration will be key in this role, as you ll be working closely with internal teams including Finance and Retrofit Delivery to gather data and supporting evidence for monthly reports, grant drawdowns, and quarterly audits.

This is a permanent position working 35 hours a week. You can be based in either our Farringdon or Sittingbourne office, working a minimum of 2 days in the office and the rest from home.

What you ll need

• Experience in reporting to external funding bodies, including data collation against multiple data sets and providing evidence of qualitative and quantitative data.
• Experience in collecting large amounts of performance data and formulating next steps.
• Financial acumen, and experience of assisting with spend and budget analysis.
• Expertise in Excel and data reporting.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills, be persuasive and diplomatic whilst remaining independent.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills.

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above criteria providing examples.

Closing date: 3rd December 2025 at 23:59pm. We may close the advert early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Healthcare cash plan
• Eyecare & dental
• Birthday leave
• Retailers discounts
• Cycle to work
• Buy & sell annual leave
• Season ticket loan
• In-house academy & career development
• Flexible working

Inclusion and Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual. We re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.