Trade Effluent & Forecasting Analyst

Severn Trent; Coventry; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A major UK utilities provider is seeking a Trade Effluent & Forecasting Analyst to ensure accurate market data and robust forecasting. The role involves responsibilities like data validation, maintenance of forecasting models, and ensuring compliance. Candidates should have strong analytical skills and stakeholder management experience. This position offers a salary range of £35,569.17 - £41,955.40, an annual bonus scheme, and generous benefits including a leading pension scheme and 28 days holiday.

Benefits

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual bonus scheme

Leading pension scheme

Sharesave opportunity

10% monthly discount with nurseries

Dedicated training and development

Electric vehicle scheme

Family friendly policies

Two volunteering days per year

Qualifications

• Experience in data validation, forecasting, or market data processes, ideally within utilities.
• Understanding of wholesale water and wastewater operations and trade effluent processes.
• Ability to influence and challenge constructively.

Responsibilities

• Ensure trade effluent meter reads are accurate and validated.
• Work with metering teams to resolve data discrepancies.
• Monitor data quality trends and drive corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain forecasting models for trade effluent volumes.
• Ensure forecasted volumes reflect operational reality.

Skills

Analytical capability with attention to detail

Stakeholder management skills

Data validation

Forecasting

Market data processes

Job description

Overview

The Trade Effluent & Forecasting Analyst plays a critical role in ensuring the organisation maintains accurate market data, delivers robust forecasting, and meets all regulatory and financial obligations related to trade effluent activity. The role provides high-quality analytical insight and operational assurance, ensuring that trade effluent performance, forecasting accuracy, and market compliance directly support organisational performance, financial stability, and positive customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all trade effluent meter reads are accurate, validated, and correctly entered in the market systems.
• Work proactively with metering teams to resolve data discrepancies, validate site configurations, and ensure all TE meter assets and consumption data meet market standards.
• Monitor data quality trends, identify root causes of inaccuracies, and drive corrective and preventative actions.
• Lead the development and maintenance of robust forecasting models for trade effluent volumes, ensuring alignment with financial expectations and business planning cycles.
• Ensure that forecasted volumes submitted to the market accurately reflect operational reality and financial assumptions.

Qualifications

• Analyse variances between forecast, actual performance, and financial models, providing insight and recommendations.
• Strong analytical capability with excellent attention to detail, alongside experience in data validation, forecasting, or market data processes, ideally within a utilities environment.
• The successful candidate will demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge constructively, and be a clear and effective communicator able to present insights to senior leaders and external stakeholders.
• An understanding of wholesale water and wastewater operations, trade effluent processes, or market codes is desirable, as is experience working within regulated environments or supporting audit processes.

Company Information

24 hours a day, 365 days a year we serve 4.8 million households and business across the heart of the UK. Each cuppa drank, each toilet flushed is only possible because of the 7,000 brilliant team members working across our patch. We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality. We know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our customers and the communities where they live. If you want to do more because you care, we'd love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here. Our Trade Effluent role sits at the heart of this value with the opportunity to really make a difference to our customers.

Working Here

Working here isn't just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent. We'll reward you for it, too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we'll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
• Salary £35,569.17 - £41,955.40
• Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2250 per annum based on company performance)
• Leading pension scheme - we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
• Sharesave - the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
• 10% monthly discount with Busy Bee Nurserys, and one-week free childcare
• Dedicated training and development with our 'Academy'
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family friendly policies
• Two volunteering days per year