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Energy Economist
to join our Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Ethics & Compliance, and Secretariat Function (LRECS). Our Regulatory Affairs team provides advice regarding and seeks to influence the legal and regulatory framework of the energy sector so that Centrica businesses can work effectively within it.
In this role you will be reporting to our Head of Regulatory Economics and Policy and will conduct economic analysis, particularly around regulated and other legislative frameworks for energy projects. Additionally, you will be involved with explaining regulatory regimes more widely and ensuring understanding of these is reflected in financial modelling related to individual projects or programmes. You will also contribute to influence the form of future policy and regulation more generally through the application of robust economic analysis.
Location:
We work flexibly in line with our Flexible First working arrangements believing that empowered colleagues are happier and more productive. The successful candidate will, however, need to be comfortable commuting to our Windsor office on at least a weekly basis and to our other locations as may be needed.
What will you do?
Advise on impact of regulatory regimes on profitability and return on capital.
Advise on the design and shaping of regulatory and government incentives to funding regimes.
Coordination with strategy teams and legal advisors. Ensure that deadlines can be met including preparation of papers for internal Centrica committees, senior leadership of business units and the Centrica Board.
Act as an in-house economic consultant to wider Centrica teams including on the development of internal capabilities to meet regulatory requirements.
Improve knowledge and skills across the team. Through close working and day-to-day interactions, build the knowledge and understanding of the principles of regulatory economics across the legal and regulatory affairs team. Those principles can then be applied via all regulatory interactions.
Here's what we're looking for:
You will be able to bring an excellent understanding (and ideally track record) of applying economic analysis to policy and regulation either as a consultant, in the private sector or in a government or regulatory body. Experience of network / infrastructure / asset regulation, regulatory finance and cost modelling is also desirable.
An understanding of the energy sector, and/or application of economic analysis in the sector would be an advantage.
In addition, you will have:
Excellent verbal, presentation and reasoning skills
Ability to build constructive relationships at all levels of an organisation
Excellent analytical and conceptual thinking skills
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