Senior Data Analyst

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

Job Description

Do you have a passion for Data and automation? Are you a Problem-Solver with an ability to quickly understand complex processes?  Do you continually look for ways to create efficiencies? Then this role could be for you. We are looking for a Sr Data Automation Analyst to join our team focusing on delivery of cross functional designs and solutions. This role will be key to delivering transformation projects and efficiency improvements within existing workflows as well as delivering new data products to our clients.

We are looking for someone with a strong data focus, improvement mindset and project experience who is located in Edinburgh.

About you and how you can excel in this role

The successful candidate for this role must have a strong data background (including python) and understand the challenges of building modern data centric solutions. Proven experience of data transformation projects, working in cross functional development teams and the ability to articulate ideas effectively across all business areas is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the research teams to fully understand requirements of any new workflows, or the most impactful improvements to existing workflows
• Create documentation to provide clear understanding of processes and enable migration from legacy systems
• Work alongside colleagues in our Central enablement, automation and engineering teams to design & build key workflow improvements
• Understand the data landscape and elements of the data platform to be able to recommend solutions that enable efficient Analytics and Insight
• Automate priority workflows and deliver efficiencies through connected datasets and integrated pipelines
• Lead delivery of appropriately sized projects
• Coach and mentor more junior team members (globally)
• Demonstrate a passion for working in a high-performance and collaborative culture
• This role could develop into a line management opportunity 

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Qualifications

• Proven experience in data transformation and change projects
• Strong knowledge of python, SQL, PowerBI and other languages/tools to support data manipulation and analysis
• Experience working with databases (on-prem & hosted)
• Experience in agile projects and cross functional teams.
• Experience with agile project methodologies, documentation, and delivery
• Good understanding and hands on experience with visualization tools (PowerBI preferred)
• Excellent stakeholder, project management and communication skills
• AWS knowledge is an advantage

About the role

This role will form part of the Central Product Enablement group and will work closely with our Research, Data and Product functions. The successful candidate will be help solve challenges around data pipelines, analysis and data quality.

The success of this role will require collaboration & problem solving. The core objective is to help migrate workflows from legacy systems & deliver internal efficiencies through data. Ensuring we have a supportive and inclusive culture within our team is essential.

Additional Information

• We are a hybrid working company and the successful applicant will be expected to be physically present in the office at least 2 days per week to foster and contribute to a collaborative environment, but this may be subject to change in the future
• Due to the global nature of the team, a degree of flexible working will be required to accommodate different time zones

Wood Mackenzie Values

• Inclusive – we succeed together
• Trusting – we choose to trust each other
• Customer committed – we put customers at the heart of our decisions
• Future Focused – we accelerate change
• Curious – we turn knowledge into action