Senior Consultant - Energy & Utilities

PA Consulting; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm seeks experienced consultants for its Economics & Investment Strategy team in London. Successful applicants will support clients in navigating complex strategic decisions, leveraging deep economic expertise and analytical capabilities. The role emphasizes teamwork, problem-solving, and effective communication, aiming to deliver tangible results in diverse sectors. This position allows for hybrid working arrangements and encourages personal development through training and support.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave plus extra days

Generous company pension scheme

Community and charity initiatives

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Tax efficient benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in consulting or the energy industry is preferred.
• Strong technical and analytical skills are required.
• Ability to present complex information in an accessible manner.

Responsibilities

• Developing business strategies for regulated utilities.
• Modelling and analysis to support strategic decisions.
• Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams on client projects.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Relevant degree or professional qualification

Tools

PLEXOS

Job description

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

PA’s Economics & Investment Strategy Capability

Operating at the leading edge of consulting, our multi-disciplinary teams combine deep economics expertise, industry knowledge and a structured decision-making approach to help clients understand the potential impacts, benefits and return on investment of strategic decisions. Our capabilities include:

• Strategy: We specialise in securing investments in public and private sector infrastructure and technology, from developing high-level strategies through to authoring business cases.
• Economics: We apply economic principles and analysis to support policy development, economic regulation and benefits appraisal, helping clients to understand long-term impacts on various markets
• Modelling: We develop operational, economic and financial models to help understand the impact of various options/scenarios and, ultimately, guide and evidence strategic decision-making.

Our clients choose us because we challenge convention to find the solutions that really work – in practice, not just on paper. We define success as achieving exceptional results that have a lasting impact on businesses, communities and team members. It’s a principle that underpins everything we do.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.

Qualifications

We are hiring consultants with relevant professional experience in either a consulting role or in the energy industry who are natural problem-solvers and constantly curious. Attributes that we are looking for include:

Capability-specific skills

Demonstrable experience in at least one of the following capabilities:

Strategy:

• Business strategies for regulated utilities, especially electricity networks and water companies and/or
• Offshore wind auction bidding strategies (e.g. for AR7) and/or
• Strategies for hydrogen markets, including use cases and commercial models

Economics:

• Economic regulation of utilities, including outputs & incentives, cost benchmarking and cost of capital and/or Power market design, including wholesale energy markets, capacity markets and ancillary service markets and/or
• Revenue support mechanisms for energy infrastructure such as CfDs, RAB models and cap & floor arrangements

Modelling:

• Financial modelling for the energy and utilities sector, including particularly for investment valuation and price control financial modelling
• Strong technical skills in the development and application of power market forecasting models (specifically in PLEXOS software) and/or
• Strong technical skills and proficiency in offshore wind auction modelling

Core skills:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to simplify and present technical complexity in an accessible way
• The ability to balance strategic, big picture, problem solving with detailed analysis
• The ability to apply sound logic, backed up with appropriate analysis, to support decision-making and recommendations
• Proactive, collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver tangible outcomes

Our consultants are expected to be hands-on, working together with our clients to bring energy, direction and expertise to help them solve their most pressing strategic challenges. We pride ourselves in partnering alongside clients – the best way to deliver real and long-lasting value. This often means travelling to client locations to work on-site.

In addition to the formal benefits set out below, we are passionate about the personal and career development of all our consultants. Our team is committed to providing the opportunities, support, training and coaching required at all levels to ensure our consultants can all achieve their potential.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [e-mail]

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