Commercial Analyst

About the Role

Base Location: Cardiff, Reading or Perth – This is a hybrid role working a minimum two days a week from the office at the advertised location.

Salary: £41,583 - £48,296 + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

What is the Role?

The Commercial function supports Business Energy in making great decisions, backed by great numbers. One of the responsibilities of the team is to forecast future costs and revenue for the business for use in financial reporting, budgeting and for strategic decision making. As a Commercial Analyst you will support in the upkeep and development of this commercial modelling capability and is great opportunity for someone who wants to use and further develop their analytical skills in a commercial function.

As part of your role you will:

- Bring together various non-commodity costs from across the business including government levy forecasts, network charges and other indirect costs.

- Pricing and product development: Help to pull together a coherent pricing strategy, to deliver tariffs and new propositions. You'll focus on providing deeper thinking on pricing issues, doing the right thing and seeking future value. Careful consideration of wider business strategies and external environmental and reputational risks is required.

- Build and develop financial models to support decisions from P&L Forecasting, Hedging, Pricing and Customer Targeting. There will be a strong focus on developing and documenting modelling capability.

- Deliver bespoke commercial and financial models and analysis to support all business units.

- Strategic analysis of segmented data to assist the business in delivering future value.

What do I need?

We are looking for someone with excellent commercial understanding and is great at interacting with others as we are often involved with all teams across Business Energy. To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

- Strong awareness and understanding of the utilities market.

- Demonstrated understanding of financial principals, terms and concepts through previous experience.

- Strong analytical skills and be a numerical problem-solver.

- Excellent working knowledge of Excel and programming skills DAX, VBA, etc.

- Demonstrated experience in using PowerBI and Power Pivot.

About our Business

The race to net zero is intensifying for businesses of all sizes. Sustainable decisions made today can meet customers' changing needs for tomorrow and bring long-term success for businesses. Part of SSE plc, the UK and Ireland's largest renewable electricity generator, SSE Energy Solutions is different as all its renewable electricity is sourced from SSE's own UK wind and hydro assets.

In addition to providing gas and electricity to businesses across the UK, SSE Energy Solutions invests in, builds and connects localised flexible infrastructure to drive the long-term performance of energy assets. SSE Energy Solutions works with its customers to deliver financially robust plans to bring flexibility and diversity to their energy infrastructure - the low-carbon solutions they need to succeed in the race to net zero.

What’s in it for you?

An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement (including public holidays), enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for ‘Inclusion & Diversity at SSE’ to find out more.

Next Steps

All applications should be submitted online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.

If you would like to discuss any working differently requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact Lynsey on lynsey.macdonald@sse.com or on 01738 340426.

Before commencing employment with SSE, you'll be required to fully complete our pre-employment screening process consisting of a basic criminal records and credit check.

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