Senior Reward and People Analyst

Job Description

Role OVO-View

Team: People

Salary banding: £50,000- £60,000

Experience: Mid-level

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Head of Reward

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Curious, Collaborative, Challenge

Top 3 qualities for this role: Big system thinker, Self-starter, Quality output

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Our preference is that your hub would be London, due to the Head of Reward primarily working from this hub. The OVO Way of Flexibility suggests 1+ days in the office per week.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

As a member of the People team you will be the custodian of People data and work with the whole People team to own the creation and delivery of the People Analytics strategy and roadmap. This will include developing business processes via PowerBI/LookML and Workday to enhance the Metrics and Insight offering for People Data to make a difference to the business.

This role in a nutshell:

Your main responsibilities will be working within the Reward Team to deliver Analytics and Insights on Reward and People data, alongside identifying and making recommendations on how to improve data integrity.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Working within the Reward Team to service the wider People Leadership Team in the development and refining of PowerBI/LookML dashboards as per business requirements, allowing members to self-serve for their data and MI needs
• Provide project and analytical support to the Reward leads with cyclical & ad hoc projects, including but not limited to the Annual Pay and Bonus Reviews, Benefits Annual Window, Pension Re-enrolment, Pay Gap Reports and Equal Pay audits
• Deliver the People Analytics strategy and roadmap, prioritising workloads and requirements from the whole People team to support the business and deliver on ad-hoc, regular and legislative reporting whilst adhering to GDPR regulations and guidelines
• Lead on data governance, audits and cleanses to ensure the integrity of the data feeding into the annual reward processes and dashboards, identifying and improving any areas for concern
• Undertake BAU reporting using PowerBI/LookML and Workday as the primary reporting tools whilst maintaining the Workday reporting suite
• Ability to support Workday reporting, dashboards and workbooks, ensuring Workday releases and upgrades are deployed successfully and supporting the config teams with UAT testing and audit requirements
• Processing of benefits tasks related to the monthly benefit/pension cycle, payroll reporting, opening of selection windows, external provider processing & reporting.
• Maintaining the content on our flexible benefit platform (Darwin) in line with feedback internally and policy changes externally.
• The champion of OVO’s new joiner onboarding events from a benefit & wellbeing perspective.
• Supporting our people & People Services teams with front line queries raised through AskOVO.
• Support the reward leads with job evaluation, salary survey submissions (WTW, Radford and adhoc pulse surveys) and comms and engagement for cyclical reward activities.
• Proactively build relationships and positivity with others, working effectively to achieve the best outcome ensuring the needs and perspectives of others are considered

You’ll be a successful in this role at OVO if you…

Have a great track record and balance of skills across systems & technical and personal & communications.

Systems & Technical:

• Strong capabilities in PowerBI/LookML with ability to build and update dashboards
• Experience in HR business areas, particularly as a Reward Analyst with salary benchmarking experience and pay gap reporting experience
• Experience in People Analytics and complex reporting and insights delivery
• Experience in Workday report writing, dashboards, workbooks and Workday HCM
• Good understanding of Calculated Fields and Security in Workday
• Experience with Darwin Benefits platform is preferable
• Experience with Data Mapping activities between various systems
• Experience working with other HR systems (Learning Management etc)
• IT & IT Systems literate (Google Suite, Microsoft)

Personal & Communications:

• Strong verbal communications to be able to partner with the business
• Team Player with a proven track record of operating well in a team environment
• Able to transpose data into a story for non-technical people to understand
• Commercial understanding of a business and how data insight to drive change
• Creative and positive, wanting to use data to drive change
• Well organised with the ability to work on own initiative to specific deadlines
• Always thinking about the customer and the end goal, wanting data to be the enabler and not the outcome
• Determination to get our data clean and accurate
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Ability to collaborate effectively and build relationships across communities
• Challenging processes and managing stakeholders to continually improve outputs
• Confident facilitating and presenting

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £50,000 and £60,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home
Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..