Development Analyst

Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: We’re open to flexible working hours so whether you’re looking for full time, part time, job sharing or looking for flexible start/finish times, just let us know on your application.
Location: Our team can work flexibly from home or the office, balancing the working day with personal commitments, whether that’s personal wellbeing, childcare or interests. Coming together on site, to our office in Exeter, to offer face to face support and collaboration when required.
Closing date: Tuesday 11th April 2023
Salary: Starting from £32,400 plus excellent benefits

The Pricing Development team creates and supports a suit of digital solutions which complement EBS’s core IT Pricing and Billing Systems. The solutions are used by various business owners across our EBS Sales, Marketing, Operations, PPA and Commercial teams to enable self-serve, fulfil contractual obligations and provide a scalable alternative to manual processing.

The opportunity…

As the Development Analyst, you’ll be joining a team of 6, who support each other, in understanding our challenges, what our customers need from us, and to create practical applications that solve business needs. We operate within the Change, Systems & Processes (CSP) Department, which is key to the future of EDF Business Solutions (EBS), ensuring that we stay relevant and continue to lead, by defining and implementing major change initiatives across all Departments.

The Development Analyst is responsible for support of existing and creation of new EBS tools to value contracts, enable gross margin delivery and fulfil contractual and regulatory obligations. This is achieved through developing digital tools which utilise core systems, industry and pricing data to generate an accurate customer proposition. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that existing tools remain fit for purpose, deliver accurate results and efficient operations. This role is suited to someone with numerical acumen, ability to analyse data to check for errors and inaccuracies, who enjoys problem solving and creating digital/IT solutions.

What we’re looking for…

It’s not just the technical competencies that are important to be successful in this role, the way you carry it out and the behaviours you demonstrate are equally important.

You will be curious, creative and innovative, you’ll take a commercial perspective to problem solving and be agile and flexible in your approach. You’ll thrive on collaboration, engaging with wider teams onshore and offshore. You’ll take accountability for your own deliveries and manage yourself based on outputs. You will have a strong customer focus, making it simple for others and caring deeply about success for your customers and stakeholders.

The role will require ability to manage working capacity to support projects and ad hoc requests, ability to deliver a range of work accurately and to specific deadlines, understanding their value to the business and challenge new requests to ensure value adding work is completed in the most effective way.

Key technical experience required:

• Strong MS Excel skills and programming skills in VBA
• Experience in building and supporting tools used by others
• Excellent problem-solving skills, identifying root causes and offering solutions with ability to analyse data to check for errors and inaccuracies
• Strong written communication, including the ability to document complex issues and processes in a way that can be understood by a wider audience.

As part of your role you will be expected to learn:

• Alteryx, SQL, Python
• Understanding of the UK energy markets
• Absorb knowledge of EDF Customer base, B2B pricing products and processes

Please submit a cover letter along with your CV when submitting your application.

For more information about this role, please contact bhavick.parmar@edfenergy.com

Our culture…

Tracy Houguez, Senior Pricing Developer, says: “The PD team is a close-knit unit of highly skilled Developers, with a great combination of business knowledge as well as technical skills that allows us to support our business in their bespoke digital tool requirements. You will be joining a team of supportive colleagues that will help you in increasing your knowledge of tools, application building software and coding languages. Flexible working patterns and the ability to work from home make this a great place to work and will allow you to develop your skills as a Development Analyst.”

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity, inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’re an equal opportunity and disability confident employer. If you feel comfortable sharing with us that you have a disability, you meet the minimum criteria for the role, we will guarantee you an interview.

We’ll value the difference you bring and give you opportunities to thrive and succeed and to feel you belong.

• Potential to earn 5% bonus
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with service up to a maximum of 30 days)
• A defined contribution pension scheme
• Retail discounts and cashback deals
• Healthcare cash plan
• Technology benefits
• Government tax-free childcare

• Additional annual leave
• Dental insurance
• Gym membership
• Critical illness insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Travel insurance
• Car breakdown cover
• Dining card