Qlik Data Analyst

As a Qlik Data Analyst, you will play a crucial role in driving data-driven decision-making. You will transform complex data into actionable insights that enable us to innovate & optimise performance. With a focus on delivery quality analytics and insight for Smart Metering related data sets, you'll play a pivotal role in how the data can be utilised to drive strategy.

About Us

Affinity Water is on an exciting journey to become a data-driven organisation. Data is central to meeting our company objectives and delivering outstanding outcomes. Our ambition is to establish a systematic focus on data and knowledge throughout the business, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. This will allow us to achieve and sustain breakthrough service and performance for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create data visualisations and storytelling of all corporate data to represent data findings clearly and effectively using the Qlik product stack.
• Analysis, interpretation and reporting of data to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Understand business requirements to identify data sources and data entities required for data projects and support with extract and transform activities
• Performing exploratory data analysis to understand trends, patterns, and anomalies which includes any data quality considerations for on-going consumption
• Provide insights and designs for Data Engineers and Performance Insight Analysts to undertake their own build activities
• Data Collection, Cleaning and Preparation of data from structured and unstructured sources for analysis purposes
• Collaborate with and support the wider teams and data users in the development of dashboards and reports to communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Undertake ad-hoc analysis of data to provide data-driven recommendations to support business decisions.
• Monitor, update and resolve service desk tickets in line with SLAs for incident management.
• Pro-actively keep up to date with the evolving technologies, tools, and techniques in data analysis to continually enhance skills and improve analysis processes.

Qualifications / Knowledge required

• 5+ years experience developing and delivering interactive dashboards and reports using Qlik Sense, and/or have obtained a Qlik certification in either Qlik Sense or Qlik View as a Business Analyst or Data Architect.
• Experience of day-to-day administration of Qlik i.e. Data connections, User access, Task scheduling and monitoring
• Comprehensive knowledge of SQL that can be practically applied
• A strong understanding of UI/UX design concepts
• Ability to work with large datasets through data cleaning, preprocessing, and transformation techniques
• Documenting of dashboards, standards, data designs and data models
• Ability to take complex information and disparate or large data sets, model and translate them for use in graphic or interactive visualisations.
• Possess a deep understanding of Business Intelligence reporting with great problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity and an agile outlook.
• Ability to translate business requirements into data modelling/scripting and Qlik front end development specifications

Personal Skills and Key Competencies:

• Attention to detail and a proactive attitude towards the delivery of projects
• Excellent communication skills that is flexible and a team player but is self-motivated with a positive “get-it-done” approach.
• Ability to liaise with a broad range of stakeholders to capture complex requirements and translate them into data story telling
• Strong organisational skills and experience in prioritising work to meet project deadlines
• Develop documentation to share with management and implementation teams
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills with the ability to present the ‘story’ of data in clear and concise language to a broad range of stake holders.

Benefits include:

• Salary circa £60,000 per annum dependant on experience
• Annual leave 26 days, plus a celebration day, plus bank holidays, rising with length of service
• A generous pension scheme that doubles the contributions you make, up to a maximum of 12%
• We offer enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave. We also have a Carers policy and Menopause policy to help us support our people through different stages of their lives.
• Company bonus scheme
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health
• Hybrid working: Improve your home-work balance with the opportunity for hybrid working

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.