Energy Costing Analyst

Energy Costing Analyst

Engie

Leeds, United Kingdom

Opportunity:

Are you ready to join a dynamic team of 12 professionals dedicated to managing and mitigating business exposure to costs and risks associated with commodity and third-party charges?

We are seeking a skilled individual to help us achieve competitive market pricing, whilst recovering revenues in line with costs.

In this role, you will provide essential query management and support for Costing & Pricing activities across a range of products and new propositions for gas, power, and upstream/downstream sectors.

This is a hybrid role assigned to our Leeds office where the successful candidate would be based two days per week. On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package.

Key Responsibilities:

• Communicate self-generated analysis to senior management;
• Make proposals and recommendations for changes to pricing policy and risk management protocols to senior management and influence their decisions;
• Develop, maintain and improve models for cost and risk exposure analysis, cost forecasting, premium determination and pricing calculations, ensuring pricing friction is kept to target levels;
• Proactively develop and implement solutions to pricing issues (and regularly analyse to detect new issues) including improving existing systems and processes or developing new;
• Assist in the definition of pricing policies and methodologies to help ensure a framework that is effectively implemented and operated across the business, including leading the pricing input to product development;
• Maintenance of pricing related data in relevant systems;
• Ensure appropriate communication to management and the wider business of issues/solutions, changes and updates;
• Monitoring the regulatory landscape and assessing the impacts of industry change on pricing methodologies and cost forecasts, acting as subject matter expert for implementation and communication to stakeholders;
• Support Finance teams with the calculation and provision of Mark to Market reporting for all third party costs as part of the Full Year Forecast, Mid Term Audit and annual Budget;
• Understanding and management of economic, market and regulatory issues impacting on Pricing;
• Communicating and contributing to the management and resolution of any issues;
• Provide information and Key Business Indicator (KBI)/Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data to allow management of costs and charges, and implement action plans to ensure they are maintained within acceptable parameters;
• Work with wider business to ensure good stakeholder engagement and customer service as well as identifying issues, communicating them and enabling a resolution;
• Participate in and support programmes and projects providing role of Subject Matter Expert. Lead smaller business projects to implement new processes/improvements;
• Adherence to and the development of internal processes, policies and risk frameworks.

Knowledge and Skills:

Hard Skills:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including VBA;
• PowerBI;
• SQL;
• Python;
• Proven experience of developing Jupyter notebooks and .py scripts for ad-hoc reporting and for routine tasks.

Soft Skills:

• Ability to demonstrate a practical approach to problem solving, especially the use of creativity to resolve novel problems to the business’s advantage;
• Ability to present technical information to a range of stakeholders;
• Knowledge of commodity markets;
• Knowledge of retail pricing policies/methodologies and systems;
• Knowledge of elements that contribute to final delivered prices and cost items incurred by business in course of gas and electricity supply.

Experience/Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to succeed in a complex environment;
• Experience of retail pricing techniques and systems would be highly advantageous;
• Proven ability to undertake analysis of complex numerical problems;
• The ideal candidate will have a degree level qualification in an analytical discipline, or specific related experience.

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