Senior Data Analyst

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide. As part of our 2025 Vision we are putting Sustainability and Net Zero at the heart of our business.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

Seeking people who aspire to move into data science but already have significant Excel capability and exposure to working in Construction or Engineering, using Excel to develop tools that improve the efficiency of an existing process. Typically, with excellent VBA knowledge, Power Query, and exposure to a range of other tools and systems. The successful candidate will provide business analysis expertise for our clients.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Data Analyst
• Considerable experience in working to develop software tools to improve the efficiency of an existing process using the Microsoft stack of products. Primarily in Excel, thus VBA is essential.
• Understands project and program delivery in the built environment and ideally in the context of a large utility.
• Can deal with multiple stakeholders and ideally has some consultancy experience.

Other responsibilities include:

• Preparing presentation and other materials for client pitches, etc.
• Inputting key information into the Turner & Townsend internal database tools.

Qualifications

This role will require good analytic and strong numeracy skills with the ability to understand and present data in different representations. Preferred skills include:

• Bachelors / Masters Degree in an analytic subject, e.g., Math’s, Geography, Engineering, Economics etc.
• A Level Math’s and/or computing.
• Business Analysis qualifications such as BCS or IIBA.
• An understanding of different project delivery methodologies (e.g., waterfall, Agile etc.).
• Experience with modelling and diagramming applications (e.g. Visio, Lucid Chart, etc.).
• Problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to engage with clients and be comfortable in eliciting requirements from non-technical stakeholders.

We are looking for people with excellent data-focused computing skills and the desire to learn and apply these on major projects and programs. As a minimum, we look for those with first-class Excel capability, Power BI, including DAX and ideally SQL and/or Python. As a consulting business, it will be necessary to engage with our clients across Europe to translate their business requirements into useful business insights.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this, we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.