Business Data Analyst – Octopus Australia

This is an opportunity to join the Octopus Australia team in our Melbourne office. The successful applicant will be able to join the Octopus Australia team on their mission to accelerate Australia's transition to a future powered by renewable energy.

We’re looking for a Business Data Analyst to work within Business Intelligence unit of the Strategic Finance team at Octopus Australia. This role will build, operate, and maintain the information platform which will underpin information flows of Octopus Australia.

The individual in this position will collaborate across the wider Octopus business to understand how data is used and can enhance operations. They will then interpret these needs into functional specifications and play a role in the execution of technical solutions.

About Octopus Group

Octopus Group is a group of entrepreneurial companies on a mission to invest in the ideas, industries and people that will change the world. We are entrepreneurs and investors, applying our expertise and our clients’ money to build a brighter world for future generations. Octopus Group is one of the largest owners of renewable energy projects in Europe and Australia, owning some 260 assets, on behalf of wholesale and institutional investors.

Octopus Australia

Octopus Australia is a renewable energy fund manager and developer harnessing capital and expertise to accelerate the energy transition, with an operating and development portfolio of over $11bn across wind, solar and battery storage. Octopus Australia is more than just an investment manager, we take a data and technology driven approach to constructing an energy portfolio designed for Australia's clean energy future.

Our team of over 50 highly skilled professionals across Melbourne and Sydney, have a unique blend of skills and expertise covering all facets of the renewable energy industry. This allows us to manage projects across their entire lifecycle and create an integrated portfolio of renewable energy and storage assets.

About the Role

• Database
  • Assist with the continued development and scaling of Octopus Australia’s single source of truth for operational and financial data.
  • Map and document current processes within the organisation and the future state of such systems and processes.
  • Identify optimisation opportunities, ensuring data integrity, security, and governance.
  • Analyse information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicting data, break down complex information into finer details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding.
• Insights and Visualisations
  • Implement best practices for data visualization and reporting in Power Bi.
  • Derive actionable insights based on qualitative and quantitative data.
  • Update and where possible automate maintenance of the information platform with monthly and quarterly updates from the business.
  • Develop, maintain, and enhance end-user reports utilising Power BI to facilitate data driven decision making.
• Project Management
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Evaluate potential software solutions, including off-the-shelf and open-source components, and the system architecture to ensure that they meet business requirements.
• Finance Experience
  • Conduct thorough data analysis to identify trends, business insights and opportunities for improvement.
  • Assist with responding to Investor requests.
  • Ad-hoc requests from Strategic Finance team.

Qualifications

Ideally, you will have the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Business Data Analyst with over three years of experience, specializing in the development and maintenance of databases, Power BI reports, dashboards, and proficient in data wrangling using programming languages.
• Experience with source data analysis, data mapping, and identifying source of truth for data across distributed systems/applications.
• Database: SQL, Python. Visualisation: DAX and Power M, Advanced Excel skills
• Competence in utilising Azure and other tools within the Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate and data flows) would be advantageous.
• Results oriented problem solver, insights focussed while being tool agnostic.
• The ability to identify optimisation opportunities, ensuring data security, governance and collaborating with other parts of the business to preserve data integrity.
• Can manipulate, analyse, and interpret complex data sets with minimal support.
• High level of attention to detail.
• A relevant bachelor's degree or higher tertiary qualification in either Business, Data and Analytics or Finance.

What we offer

• 💰 A competitive salary package including bonus and medical insurance benefits
• ✈️ Extra Annual Leave entitlement
• 🏡 Flexible working 
• Ongoing learning and career development opportunities

Octopus has built an exciting and inclusive high-performance culture where employees feel empowered. We also understand the value of diversity, and we are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace environment. We would welcome people of all backgrounds to apply. 

Our Values 

At Octopus we don’t just focus on what we do but also how we do it. Our culture is critical to our success and is built around three principles that underpin how we pursue our goals:

• Be Bold – We like people who make decisions quickly and are OK changing their mind if it turns out there’s a better way of doing things.
• Be Helpful – We like People who behave like it always day one and who remember without our customers there is no business.
• Be Straightforward – We like people who have opinions and express them in a way that’s respectful and easy to understand.