Business Analyst Internship
Low Carbon, United Kingdom
Job Description
About Low Carbon
Low Carbon is a purpose driven company that creates large-scale renewable energy in the global fight against climate change. Our mission is to protect the planet for future generations while delivering positive returns for our communities and investors. Our goal is to produce as much new renewable energy as possible while limiting our own environmental impact. We do this by developing, investing in, and operating large-scale renewable energy projects across the globe.
Our partnership with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) is enabling us to accelerate the deployment of large-scale renewable energy and underpins our ambition to transform the global energy sector from fossil fuels to zero carbon.
All of us at Low Carbon know that trust is a vital component of the climate fight. We are a long-standing certified B-Corporation, a reflection of our fundamental ethos to balance the needs of the environment and society with our bottom line.
We are extremely proud of the highly professional and talented team at Low Carbon. We have built a positive learning culture that incorporates respect, trust, collaboration, and a shared passion to combat climate change. It is an open, friendly and supportive environment, and we are proud to say we work here. As we grow, we are committed to increasing diversity in the team, and continuing to foster an inclusive environment where we can learn from each other.
Role Description
Low Carbon’s ambitious growth plans mean that we need to help equip our finance colleagues with the capabilities, systems, and processes to allow them to continue to provide an exceptional service as we grow rapidly. We have launched a finance transformation programme to deliver this change, and having completed the design of the target operating model we are now in a phase of prioritising and implementing change initiatives.
Joining a small transformation programme team, this role will play an important part in supporting a number of programme initiatives to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of change to our people, systems and processes.
You will be responsible for analysing user requirements, identifying technical solutions, and providing support to end-users.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather and analyse requirements by collaborating with business stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Critically analyse and map systems, business workflows/process, and data flows, identifying areas for improvement
- Create documentation including functional and technical specifications, user manuals, workflow diagrams and data models
- Work closely with finance teams to ensure successful solutions implementation
- Act as a focal point with business stakeholders, to troubleshoot and address issues
- Collaborate with third parties and internal teams to ensure smooth integration of new processes, deploying effective change management procedures
- Assist with the development and implementation of data management best practices
Person Specification
- A friendly, approachable and professional manner
- An excellent communicator who builds trusted relationships with people at all levels
- Energetic, reliable, adaptable and used to using their initiative
- Highly organised, great attention to detail and a focus on getting things done
- Be an enthusiastic and committed team player with a ‘hands on approach’ to problem solving
Skills amp; Experience
Essential:
- Previous experience as a Business Analyst able to hit the ground running
- Excellent problem solving, analytical and business intelligence skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex information to a non-technical audience
Desirable
- Experience with agile methodologies, including working in Scrum or Kanban teams
- Experience with design visualisation tools such as Figma / Miro / draw.io
Our Compensation amp; Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 26 days holiday + your birthday off (pro-rata for the duration of your internship)
- Lots of office social events
- Working in newly fit-out offices in Central London
- Get to work with an experienced, talented team of renewable energy professionals
- Be a part of a dynamic, entrepreneurial mission driven culture
- Make your unique contribution to the fight against climate change