Seeking- Flex and Forecasting Analyst

6 Month Contract

Once a week in Milton Keynes

Inside IR35

What’s the role?

As a Flex Forecasting Analyst, you’ll be responsible for working with and supporting our largest UK-based B2B customers with their energy demand forecasting activities:

• Proactively reviewing customer’s energy usage, recommending forecast changes to customers and supporting them with understanding their demand.
• Validating customer forecasts and challenging these where appropriate in an approachable and diplomatic manner.
• Timely processing of customer reforecasts and supporting with the E2E reforecast journey.
• Being a key point of contact for both internal & external stakeholders at varying levels of seniority.

As a member of the wider UK B2B demand forecasting team you’ll also have the opportunity to:

• Forecast energy usage for customers on non-flex contracts.
• Support the rest of the UK B2B DF team with an ongoing project to overhaul the existing demand forecasting system.

What we need from you

Essential:

• Energy forecasting experience or position management experience.
• An understanding of external factors that can impact energy usage.
• An understanding of B2B energy products (flex, fixed etc)
• Highly proficient with SQL and Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working with large data sets.
• Strong communication skills, in particular ability to convey complex issues to those with a varying understanding of the subject matter.
• Strong attention to detail and able to identify data that doesn’t look right.

Desirable:

• Experience creating & maintaining PowerBI dashboards, especially in a management-information (MI) context.
• Experience with data modelling in R.
• Experience participating in user-acceptance testing and writing user-acceptance test scripts.

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.