Senior Data Analyst

Job purpose and background

Are you passionate about using data to drive change? Do you have excellent data analysis skills alongside the ability and desire to work with users of data and to communicate well?

CDP’s Data Analytics Team are looking for a skilled, experienced, and ambitious senior data analyst who is passionate to use data to drive companies, investors, and governments to build a thriving economy which works for people and planet.

You will be a Senior analytical lead in the Data Analytics team and have line management responsibility for one Data Analyst. You will also be a principal team member, delivering and developing high-value impactful analytics and insight. These analytics will secure reliable revenue streams for CDP whilst catalyzing the reallocation of investor capital for the green global economic transition. You will be able to leverage your knowledge and experience to put CDP at the forefront of Analytics and insight research for the economic transition to a well-below 2°C future.

You will maintain detailed data rich bottom-up models of 7+ high impact sectors of the economy built on physical asset-level data. These models will enable accurate, time-series estimates of direct, indirect (Scope 1-2) and value-chain (Scope 3) corporate GHG emissions and energy demand at multiple levels of sectoral and geographical granularity.

You will be able to support statistical estimation approaches employed by the wider Data Analytics team, peer review those methods, and take a key role in the evolution of the general modelling framework and its integration with your bottom-up models and methods.

You will also support the Data Analytic team across other key areas of work they deliver. Leading on data set delivery, report creation, data visualization, analytical projects, and data product delivery. A data analytical all-rounder with drive and enthusiasm to get stuck into a multitude of delivery areas.

Key responsibilities include:

• Line management of one Data Analyst
• Delivering analytics and Insight to CDP and other stakeholders.
• Delivering data visualization for stakeholders
• Support colleagues, investors, NGOs, and other data consumers in the use of our data, data products and make better decisions from them.
• Data requirement gathering and collation
• Extraordinary data wrangling skills.

Required skills and experience:

• At least 4 years of data analysis experience using R/Python with experience with well-known code libraries for data processing (pandas, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, dplyr, tidyr, tidyverse, etc.).
• Experienced in statistical modelling.
• Proven experience of delivery of time series models and knowledge of methodologies (AR, MA, ARIMA, LSTM etc.).
• People management experience.
• Excellent data visualization skills using Power BI or similar tools.
• Experienced in data cleaning.
• Excellent data wrangling skills.
• Experience of SQL (or T-SQL).
• Good communication skills in English.
• Strong numeracy and good statistical skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

Desired skills and experience:

• Familiarity with GitHub
• An awareness of environmental issues, particularly as they relate to our core themes of Climate Change, Deforestation and Water Security.
• A good understanding of GHG accounting methods and sustainability data.
• Knowledge of the financial system and capital markets.

This is a permanent, full time role based at CDP’s London office, reporting to the Head of Data.

Salary and benefits: Between £40,000 to £42,000 per annum depending on experience. 30 days holiday excluding bank holidays. Generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Program, life assurance, Training and development, Flexible working opportunities, and others.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the United Kingdom. Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Before you apply

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To apply please email your CV and cover letter describing how you meet the required skills and experience, to [email protected] with ‘Senior Data Analyst, Your First name, Surname’ in the subject by 23.00 GMT by 29^th March 2021