Senior Analyst

Description:

What you’ll be doing
Assisting the Performance and Reporting Manager to prepare and submit of annual business plans, budgets, periodic forecasts of financials and associated volumes for licensed business.

Be a key commercial contact for the Major Projects Delivery team and ad-hoc requests from other business functions.

Take responsibility for requests from corporate functions (Control, Legal, HR) and co-ordinates responses from other stakeholders, such as SPT Analysts in Major Projects / Transmission Operations and Programme Development.

Ability to understand and interpret technical Transmission Licence conditions and communicate their interpretation to internal (SPT and Network Planning & Regulation) and external (Ofgem) stakeholders.

Interpret questions from Ofgem on submissions made by SPT (such as Availability of Resources and Regulatory Reporting Packs) and give credible responses that are in line with SPT strategy.

Work closely with corporate functions to understand performance against Budgets, Forecasts and Business Plan and be able to communicate key messages back to management.

Prepare material and analysis for key business meetings with Iberdrola Senior Management and external meetings (e.g., Investor Days).

Review Budgets, Forecasts and Business Plan submissions from parties across SPT to identify unusual trends and movements and challenge other parties before consolidating.

Maintain strong controls, ensuring all processes and procedures are in line with Group policies and that documentation is kept up to data.

What you’ll bring
Minimum Criteria:

• Qualified or near completion Accountant or equivalent degree/qualification.
• Ability to make high level decisions within tight timescales and with competing priorities.
• Confidence, ability, and presence to constructively challenge at all levels of organisation.
• Delivery focussed and high level of resilience to deal with the continually changing demands and time pressures of the role.
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills at all levels – verbal and written
• Experience of building and maintaining strong inter-departmental and external working relationships.
• Effective influencing, organisational and analytical skills.