Risk Analyst

JR United Kingdom; High Wycombe; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK energy advisory provider is seeking a Risk Analyst to join their dynamic Risk team. This home-based position, with occasional office travel, offers a chance to support vital risk management functions, contributing significantly to client satisfaction and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will be analytical, resilient, and possess strong interpersonal skills, ensuring effective collaboration with various stakeholders.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Company pension

Life insurance

4pm finish on Friday

Access to voluntary benefits

Qualifications

• Degree level educated in an Engineering, Mathematical or Economic discipline.
• Good understanding of risk management analysis and statistics.
• Ability to analyze large and complex data sets.

Responsibilities

• Provide trading support and manage hedging requests.
• Monitor customer positions and energy usage.
• Administer operational tasks for Risk Directors and Managers.

Skills

Analytical capability

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Quantitative analysis

Data analysis

Education

Degree in Engineering, Mathematics or Economics

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

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Inspired PLC is a UK market leading technology enabled provider of energy and sustainability advisory services. Since 2000, it has grown in scale and capability and is servicing over 3,400 UK and Irish clients across all sectors.

To enable businesses to respond to the climate emergency, we focus on solving their toughest challenges. By managing data comprehensively, sourcing energy sustainably and reducing carbon efficiently, we allow our clients to control costs effectively, make authentic ESG disclosures, improve their business performance, whilst powering their journey to net zero.

This role is ideally suited to a career minded, ambitious individual who is looking for that unique opportunity to prove what they can do and then be rewarded for it.

We are looking for a Risk Analyst to join our successful Risk team. This is a Home Based role with some occasional travel to the office required.

Role and Responsibilities

The role of Risk Analyst is to support the Risk department and Internal Stakeholders in the providing best in class service to customers of Inspired PLC who purchase their energy supply requirement via a Flexible Purchasing product.

The primary objective of the role is to assist Risk Directors/Managers with timely, accurate and comprehensive support.

The successful candidate's responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Trading support, complete hedging requests for smaller Inspired customers and ensure timely and accurate deal capture in the appropriate systems.
• Platform support, ensure that Platform Manager (ETRM) and Sugar (CRM) are up to date with accurate details and information for all customers and trades.
• Monitor and check customer position reports and hedging performance.
• Monitor customer energy usage, report against expected levels and support reforecasting.
• Support the Risk Directors/Managers with administrative tasks.
• Support Account Managers and Quality Assurance with any queries on customers trades, systems and reporting.
• Support monthly Cost of Gas and Cost of Electricity, price validations for a variety of customers and products.
• Ensure information systems are operated to the required standard to maintain accurate and secure records.
• Liaison with the various divisions in Inspired PLC to support on delivering risk objectives.
• Ad Hoc tasks as requested by your manager or departmental lead.
• Read and comply with the company’s Health and Safety Policy; taking reasonable care for the Health and Safety of themselves and others; co-operate with managers and other employees in fulfilling our objectives and statutory duties.

Experience and Qualifications

• Have a logical, analytical and pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Have a high numerical ability with analytical capability and a strong academic background.
• Can learn new software platforms and ways of working.
• Have a good understanding of risk management analysis, probability, statistics and quantitative analysis.
• The ability to work with and analyse large, complex data sets across spreadsheets and databases.
• Highly resilient, with experience of building strong relationships.
• Be able to work with different teams to co-deliver solutions.
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills and be a good team worker.
• Degree level educated in an Engineering, mathematical or economic discipline.
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel essential).
• Energy industry experience.

What we offer

• Training and development opportunities
• Company pension
• Life insurance
• 4pm finish on Friday
• Access to a wide range of voluntary benefits through our Inspired Benefits Portal

If you are interested in the role and would like to be considered, please apply now and a member of our In House Recruitment Team will be in touch. Good Luck!