Senior Analyst - Asset Operations, Croydon

Vacancy Overview The purpose of the role is to act as the liaison between ten conventional power stations including Coal, Gas and Nuclear assets and the commercial teams to ensure commercial considerations are fully understood to enable appropriate strategies and risk mitigation to be performed to maximise value and minimise risk on the generation portfolio. Nature and Scope Reporting into the Senior Manager of Asset Operations: • Be required to manage asset issues, compliance requirements (e.g. REMIT) and to ensure that the relationship between Stations, Wholesale Markets Optimisation and Centrica are operated under the relevant agreements • Build collaborative relationships with the stations and commercial teams to improve the outcomes for the business • In consultation with the traders, recommend alternatives to current plans to increase value to the business after analysing opportunities and risks, and make these proposals to the stations to improve financial performance Principal Accountabilities • Ensure effective collaboration and communication with Thermal and Nuclear Businesses to understand output risks • Lead operational activities used to optimise asset value. These activities include: • understanding plant characteristics to challenge output and enable commercially available plant • optimising the availability of thermal assets within the 14 day horizon, including forced running • understanding Nuclear Generation asset availability and plant risk, managing the risk around these availability forecasts and managing the operational aspects of the off-taker relationship with Centrica • Encourage Generation to provide most-likely forecasts for market publications and communication to stakeholder. Apply intelligent risk-adjustments to maximise value and minimise risk within the Risk Control framework • Provide timely and insightful information and reporting to a range of stakeholders across the business. Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience • Able to establish and maintain effective business relationships with all key stakeholders across the business • Able to work both independently and as part of a team within a pressured environment for a number of stakeholders, prioritising conflicting interests • Sound commercial understanding and customer focus with ability to challenge and influence stakeholders • Ability to communicate complex concepts to non-technical people and be able to deal with ambiguity, ensuring clarity of interpretation • Strong communicator with ability to inspire, coach and lead others • Experience of delivering successful projects on operational, commercial or market issues • Academic qualification at degree level • Experience working in a commercial role in the energy industry • Desirable • Knowledge of wholesale energy markets and regulations with an understanding of energy trading • Experience working with generation assets or large scale industrial operations and/or knowledge of plant scheduling