Senior Commercial Analyst

Network Rail Limited; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to improving lives through efficient transportation. This role involves leading the development of critical reporting tools using Excel, Power BI, and Power Apps, ensuring effective commercial performance management. You'll collaborate with experts to enhance reporting capabilities while enjoying a flexible work environment that promotes work-life balance. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a supportive setting. If you're ready to take your career to the next level, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Contributory pension schemes

75% subsidy on rail and underground season tickets

Leisure travel discount of 75%

Season ticket loan

Flexible working options

Healthcare offers

5 days paid volunteering leave

2 weeks paid reserve leave for Armed Forces community

Qualifications

• Experience in developing reports using Excel, Power BI, and Power Apps.
• Student/part membership of a relevant professional body or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of Excel and Power BI reporting for the discipline head.
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts to enhance assurance reporting.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Degree or equivalent

Student/part membership of relevant professional body

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Power Apps

Oracle

Job description

SC NW&C Commercial Performance (115623) G2

About Network Rail

Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. Click here to watch our inspiring video to learn more about us!

We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce.

Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone. Discover more about the importance of Diversity and Inclusion at Network Rail by clicking here.

Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work-life balance.

We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.

You will be part of the North West & Central Region (NW&C) which consists of three routes – North West, Central and West Coast South – and a regional team supporting Regional Major Programmes & Professional services.

Brief Description

The NW&C G&A Team works with the Regional commercial, performance, and finance teams to provide real-time data trend analysis and insights that support the delivery of commercial assurance reporting and promote proactive management of public monies. The reporting techniques used are primarily in Excel, Power BI, and Power Apps, and as such, the successful candidate would need to be confident in all three of these applications and be able to develop, maintain and enhance reporting using a combination of one or all of these. The successful candidate would also need to have practical experience of establishing Power BI reports that are able to link together data from multiple areas to tell the whole story.

Due to many reports having to be established from first principles, the role requires the successful candidates to have a level of flexibility and acceptance of enhancements which by nature will be required as end-users access the provided reports. As an employer, we encourage the continued professional development of our staff; however, this is not an entry-level role and any applicant must have the necessary experience to deliver the requirements of the role with minimal supervision and be able to work independently.

The team under which this role will sit is multi-disciplined covering both commercial and performance and road fleet, and the primary locations of the team members are Manchester and Birmingham. Hybrid working is welcome, with a minimum of two days in the office, but some travel within the region and nationally will be required.

The job is disability compliant, and interviews will take place in Birmingham.

About the role (External)

1. Lead the development & deployment of appropriate Excel and Power BI reporting to meet the needs of the discipline head
2. Lead the development & deployment of appropriate Power App solutions to meet the needs of the discipline head
3. Collaborate with a network of Subject Matter Experts to promote ’capability’ in assurance reporting
4. Provide guidance & expertise on existing data analysis and reporting systems, their connectivity and opportunity for improvement and integration.
5. Deliver continuous improvement and corrective action where required.
6. Periodically collate, analyse and report on areas of commercial and procurement performance whilst improving coordination with other functions & maintaining positive relationships across the Region
7. Contribute to the development of the assurance strategy, provide analysis as required, making recommendations for improvements.

In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to have/to be:

• Student/part membership (or equivalent) of the relevant professional body having progressed to at least the final stage of qualification, or possession of sufficient experience to fulfil the requirements of the role without membership of the relevant professional body
• Proven analytical skills, including experience of design and delivery using Power BI, Power App, and Excel.

We would also like but it isn’t crucial to have/to be:

• Degree educated or equivalent
• Experience of working with Oracle
• Good communication & interpersonal skills

How to apply (External)

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025. Late applications will not be accepted. We may close the advert early if we receive a large volume of applicants.

Interviews will take place in Birmingham on 07 March 2025.

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Benefits

• 28 days annual leave – with the opportunity to buy and/or sell up to 5 days
• Access to a range of contributory pension schemes, and the potential to top up your competitive salary with a bonus
• A subsidy of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets if you travel to work on the train
• Privileged staff travel – Leisure travel discount of 75%
• We can offer you a season ticket loan; annual season tickets are discounted.
• A 35-hour-per-week contract with flexible working options available to help support your work-life balance
• Hybrid working (2/3 days a week in the office/on site) and enhanced family-friendly support
• Take advantage of healthcare offers (including discounted healthcare club membership), discounted cycle hire, and online shopping sites
• 5 days of paid volunteering leave
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for the Armed Forces community