Senior Data Analyst

Costain; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company in the UK seeks a Senior Data Analyst to join their Project Controls team in Teesside. The role involves managing data to support decision-making, developing Power BI dashboards, and enhancing a data-driven culture. Candidates should have strong analytical skills and experience with data visualization tools. This position is essential for improving business performance and is based on-site three days a week.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar role, ideally within construction/engineering company.
• Can deliver accurate and robust reports orally and written.
• Good at building relationships and influencing effectively.

Responsibilities

• Enforce project progress reporting cycle for Data Collection, Validation, Reporting and Analysis.
• Build and improve Power BI dashboards and tabular reports.
• Liaise with the Senior Leadership Team to publish progress reports.

Skills

Microsoft Power BI

DAX functional language

PowerQuery M language

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Data visualization

Microsoft Power Automate

Excel skills

Job description

We are looking for a strong Data Analyst to join our Project Controls team on a landmark energy project in Teesside.

As an effective Senior Data Analyst you will manage data from all departments, compile, clean and transform this from multiple Raw sources into Information presented in an understandable way supporting structured and ad-hoc Analysis and ultimately augment effective decision making by the Senior Leadership and Management Teams. You will develop Power BI dashboards and help create, engage and support a data-driven culture across the project by building trust in quality project data and provide constructive independent challenge of the month-end progress through a formal data review process.

The role is based in Teesside with a requirement to be on site as a minimum 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

• To enforce the project progress reporting cycle in respect of Data Collection, Validation, Reporting and Analysis.
• Build and continuously improve information visualisation on Power BI dashboards and tabular reports to ensure different audiences are presented with intelligence.
• To liaise with the Senior Leadership Team and Management Team to collate, assure and publish the weekly and month-end Progress Report.
• To support the Senior Leadership Team and Management Teams with ad-hoc reports and analysis as required.
• To work with the senior leadership in developing the performance maturity framework mapping all the discipline performance indicators to objectives and ensuring performance measurement is reliable and compliant to specification.
• To help develop and document a project data-model (data dictionary, taxonomy and ontology) to support the project team with self-service.
• Contribute pro-actively as a member of key working groups within Costain to represent the project, share best practice and drive continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar role- ideally within construction/engineering company
• Good experience with Microsoft Power BI, DAX functional language and PowerQuery M language.
• Pays attention to detail and sees things through to completion.
• Has an ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts in detail whilst still retaining perspective and focus on the wider picture.
• Has good interpersonal and communication skills and acts in an independent and professional manor.
• Is good at building relationships and can influence effectively.
• Is a self-starter who manages their own time and seeks to add value to their function.
• Is not afraid to address and challenge blockers to information or to raise constructive challenge.
• Can deliver accurate and robust reports orally and written, in an objective and persuasive manner.
• Can visualise data in a really engaging and intuitive way.
• Is used to delivering in a time pressured environment to meet client deadlines, and driving timely delivery from others.
• Understands and drives efficiency by applying lean improvement principles.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Automate.
• Strong Excel skills in data management, pivot tables and Power Query.
• Strong Word skills, familiar with templates, styles, references, captions, field codes and track changes.

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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