Analyst

Ofgem; Burnaby; Hybrid; CAD 34,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Ofgem is seeking an Analyst for its Networks Directorate to support regulation within the energy sector. This role demands strong analytical skills to inform regulatory decisions that impact billions in investments, ensuring the efficiency and sustainability of energy networks as the UK transitions to a low-carbon economy.

Benefits

30 days annual leave after 2 years

Flexible working hours

Generous Civil Service pension

Qualifications

• Excellent analytical skills with experience interpreting qualitative and quantitative data.
• Strong project management skills in delivering work under tight timescales.
• Experience communicating complex technical information clearly.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and assess the performance of energy network companies against regulatory targets.
• Support the development of regulatory strategies and assist in project management.
• Contribute to the production of external annual reports.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Project management

Tools

Excel

Job description

We especially welcome applicants from Glasgow and Cardiff.

Job Summary

Be part of the transformation of the UK’s energy networks. Ofgem is looking for an Analyst to join our Networks Directorate and support the regulation of the electricity and gas infrastructure that underpins the UK’s journey to Net Zero.

Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. We’re leading the transition to a low-carbon energy system while ensuring consumers especially the most vulnerable are protected and empowered.

You’ll play a key role in monitoring and assessing the performance of energy network companies. This is a high-impact role where your analysis will directly inform regulatory decisions on multi-billion-pound investment plans and help ensure networks deliver value for money, resilience, and sustainability.

Working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, using your analytical skills to assess cost efficiency, monitor outputs, and support the development of future regulatory strategies. Your work will help ensure that the UK’s energy networks are ready to meet the challenges of a decarbonised future.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the RIIO-3 price control programme one of the most significant regulatory frameworks in the energy sector. You’ll also support the ongoing monitoring of the current RIIO-2 regime, ensuring continuity and robust oversight as we transition between control periods.

We’re looking for someone with excellent analytical skills (interpreting both qualitative and quantitative data), sound judgement, and a talent for translating complex data into clear, concise briefings. You’ll need to be confident managing multiple stakeholders, working independently, and communicating effectively with a wide range of internal and external partners. You will have good Excel skills and be comfortable working with large datasets to support robust, evidence-based decision-making.

At Ofgem, you’ll be part of an inclusive, forward-thinking team that values curiosity, collaboration, and public service. We support flexible and hybrid working, offer a competitive benefits package, and provide an environment where your work directly contributes to a greener, fairer energy system.

We have a critical purpose to ensure that energy networks deliver for consumers and the environment. In this role, your insights will help shape the future of energy regulation and support the UK’s transition to a low-carbon economy.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Support areas of our annual monitoring assessment approach for the RIIO gas price controls, including analysis of company performance in relation to specific categories of expenditure and the outputs we set under the RIIO-2 price control framework and examining variations in performance against regulatory targets.
• Engage with network companies on technical aspects of their submissions and participate in direct discussions to help gain a deeper understanding of the factors influencing the delivery of the RIIO-2 programme.
• Liaise with network companies (e.g. via sector working groups) on a regular basis to help refine and develop our approach to cost assessment.
• Provide support and assistance to the preparation of oral and written briefings to Networks and Ofgem’s boards and committees on key issues - working closely with policy, regulation finance and legal colleagues.
• Support effective project management to ensure delivery of your work.
• Drafting consultation and decision documents.
• Have the opportunity to represent Ofgem at relevant industry events, seminars and working groups.
• Respond to changing priorities and helping manage organisational risk, by being flexible to embrace new workstreams across sector price controls. This could include using your analytical skills to support the assessment of specific network projects that might require additional funding after the price control is set. Or supporting briefings and analysis in the event of appeal of the price control settlement(s).
  
  

Key Outputs And Deliverables:

• Assess the performance of the network companies against RIIO-2 targets and obligations.
• Assist in the processes for monitoring and reporting of specific cost, funding and incentive areas within the RIIO-2 price control framework (including outputs and uncertainty mechanisms) in terms of cost-efficient delivery for customers, the environment and asset resilience.
• Assist in the production of external annual reports that summarise and communicate the results of our assessment.
• Support the annual process to refine and develop our approach to enhance our data collection and reporting templates, including the consultative process with key stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of assessment methodologies, and to assist in making robust recommendations, supported by the analysis of the benefits and costs (to consumers and network companies) of different options.
• Support and help motivate members of a team. This includes working closely with team leads and other Senior Managers to develop regulatory expertise and capability in the team.
  
  

Key Stakeholder Relationships

Internal

• Directors, Deputy Directors, and Workstream Managers
• Networks Price Control Team Managers and Experts
• Strategy and Decarbonisation colleagues, particularly for future networks regulatory design
• GEMA and any other relevant governance fora
• Other teams within Networks, particularly Price Control Operations and Analysis and Assurance (particularly Regulatory Finance and Engineering)
• Professional Development Leads
  
  

External

• Network companies
• Other Government Departments, including devolved Governments
• Other Regulators (including through UKRN)
• Consultants, academia, and think tanks (as appropriate)
• Wider energy sector stakeholders, including consumer advocates
  
  

Key Outputs And Deliverables:

• Assess the performance of the network companies against RIIO-2 targets and obligations.
• Assist in the processes for monitoring and reporting of specific cost, funding and incentive areas within the RIIO-2 price control framework (including outputs and uncertainty mechanisms) in terms of cost-efficient delivery for customers, the environment and asset resilience.
• Assist in the production of external annual reports that summarise and communicate the results of our assessment.
• Support the annual process to refine and develop our approach to enhance our data collection and reporting templates, including the consultative process with key stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of assessment methodologies, and to assist in making robust recommendations, supported by the analysis of the benefits and costs (to consumers and network companies) of different options.
• Support and help motivate members of a team. This includes working closely with team leads and other Senior Managers to develop regulatory expertise and capability in the team.
  
  

Key Stakeholder Relationships

Internal

• Directors, Deputy Directors, and Workstream Managers
• Networks Price Control Team Managers and Experts
• Strategy and Decarbonisation colleagues, particularly for future networks regulatory design
• GEMA and any other relevant governance fora
• Other teams within Networks, particularly Price Control Operations and Analysis and Assurance (particularly Regulatory Finance and Engineering)
• Professional Development Leads
  
  

External

• Network companies
• Other Government Departments, including devolved Governments
• Other Regulators (including through UKRN)
• Consultants, academia, and think tanks (as appropriate)
• Wider energy sector stakeholders, including consumer advocates
  
  

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

• Excellent analytical skills, both quantitative and qualitative, with demonstrated ability to think critically, validate and analyse complex data, and to challenge and sense check results (LEAD)
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to communicate technical information clearly and concisely and to work collaboratively to solve problems (LEAD)
• Strong writing skills with demonstrable application of those skills to support policy development, consultation, decision-making processes and implementation.
• Strong project management skills to successfully deliver a programme of work in challenging timescales.
  
  

Key Skills/Capabilities:

• Work collaboratively with diverse colleagues.
• Support, or lead, on the development of robust analysis that contributes to creating a range of options and making recommendations to senior management.
• Confident with Excel to manage large datasets and to present analysis in appropriate and clear formats.
• Experience of regulatory reporting is desirable but is not essential.
  
  

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
  
  

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Please refer to the Candidate Pack and Role Profile attached for full details.
  
  

Alongside your salary of £34,123, OFGEM contributes £9,885 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application or used during interview, including your CV and any statements or examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Ofgem takes any incidences of cheating very seriously. Please ensure all examples provided are of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by [https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn].

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

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Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact :

• Name : Lisa Buchanan
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