EDM Reporting Specialist

at  Severn Trent

Hello, we’re Severn Trent and we think water is wonderful. Oh, we’re pretty keen on people too.
24 hours a day, 365 days a year we serve 4.8 million households and business across the heart of the UK. Each cuppa drank and every toilet flushed is only possible because of the 6,500 brilliant team members working across our patch.
We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality. We know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our customers and the communities where they live.
If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here.

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Our WQ and E (Water Quality & Environment) team have an opportunity for you to join as our new EDM Reporting Specialist.
We are looking for a highly skilled, passionate, and self-starting individual to join the EDM Compliance and Reporting team as a senior technical expert within the Water Quality & Environment department.
As the senior technical expert within the team, you will be expected to take responsibility for company level compliance to dynamic external reporting demands.
The role holder will be required to analyse, understand, and interpret complex regulatory frameworks, translating them into actionable guidelines ready for practical application by operational teams. They will also be skilled in understanding and manipulating large datasets from a variety of sources to identify insight, trends, opportunities and risks to compliance and performance at pace.

Some of your other key accountabilities will include:

• Driving gold standard company level compliance throughout the year adapting to both internal and external demands at pace
• Delivering an excellent level of insight into EDM data, not just presenting this to the business but turning this into practical application and influencing the business to drive and deliver the opportunities.
• Driving adherence to operational processes and guidelines through exception reporting and influencing senior stakeholders and front-line teams
• Building and maintaining effective and successful relationships with regulatory bodies including the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and OFWAT
• Working alongside wider business teams to develop, improve and adapt the relevant compliance dashboards to meet ever changing demands and needs.
• Benchmarking with the wider water industry to identify and implement best practice and use experience and knowledge to influence future regulation
• Acting as the subject matter expert for all elements of EDM reporting and compliance to permit conditions.
• Understanding and driving opportunities for improvements in both our EPA measures and the Storm Overflow ODI

We’re seeking our EDM reporting specialist to have experience of external assurance and regulatory reporting including audit attendance, excellence in translating insight into compliance improvement opportunities and the end to end delivery of those improvements. We would also like our specialist to have experience of dealing with stakeholders at all levels.
You will be capable of presenting to a wide range of audiences and influencing different teams to gain support and buy in. The ability to work with large datasets and clash and manipulate data from a variety of sources to produce insight is key.
To be successful, it’s expected that you’ll have good technical knowledge of waste processes (Networks and/or Recycling) and experience working in operational and regulatory environments.
As well as this you will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong analytical and diagnostic skills and exceptional attention to detail.
As travel may be required, you’ll also need to hold a full UK driving licence.
The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity, and a caring attitude we want to talk to you too.
We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involved. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care. Is that you?