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At Centrica Business Solutions, we’re proud to partner with over 7,000 organisations globally – helping them to balance planet, with profit. We build, operate and maintain onsite, large-scale energy assets like Solar PV and Combined Heat and Power – to help businesses to save the planet and save money. We’re also transforming the UK’s energy landscape by partnering with landowners and developers to build a 900MW portfolio of new grid-scale solar farms and battery storage assets.

Centrica Power is a leading energy infrastructure company in the UK and Irish market with energy assets across conventional and flexible generation, renewable energy and energy storage. Within the current UK & Ireland portfolio, there is c.£2bn gross capital deployed, over 600MW in operation and a further 500MW in construction.

The Modelling Manager - UK Power will provide expert energy systems and market modelling and insights capability to the Centrica Power business. The role will be responsible for forecast market modelling of individual asset classes to support investment analysis and modelling forward operational performance of existing assets for planning and budgeting.

Location: Windsor (Hybrid working), we work in a hybrid, Flexible First way - typically spending 2-3 days a week in the office.

Responsibilities will include:

• Manage and develop an “internal consultancy” capability within Centrica Power and provide expert advice to support strategy development and execution across a range of operating assets as well as development and acquisition opportunities

• Quantify portfolio risks and will play a key role in optimising an integrated portfolio to extract maximum value

• Building bottom-up quantitative models at a unit level to support business case development and operational forecasts

• Development of our Plexos capability to model the integrated GB and European markets, to provide views of future asset running, commodity prices, balancing market, and volatilities. These forecasts will shape our strategy for investment and growth

• Provide thought-leadership within Centrica Power, identifying opportunities and threats and working with senior leaders to influence our strategy

• Engage with our regulatory team to influence regulatory decisions and shape market design, by providing feedback and analysis on all modifications and consultations dealing with the wholesale energy market (ex-ante markets, balancing market, system services market) capacity market, market charges and grid planning

• Continue to drive the development of Centrica Powers capability towards best-in-class data management. You will also champion and progress the level of data automation within the business

• Manage priorities within the team to keep commercial focus and ensure timely delivery. A high-level of model quality, for example as determined by back-testing. Also, timely delivery of analysis and market insights capable of supporting and influencing key decision making, in addition to maintaining appropriate and auditable records.

The Person:

• A qualification and background within a quantitative or scientific field such as mathematics, physics, or engineering

• Expert knowledge of power and gas markets

• Experience in forecasting and modelling energy markets in a commercial environment, including the valuation and optimisation of generation assets

• Understanding of the structure & operations of the UK power market

• Understanding of the UK energy policy environment

• Understanding of the UK grid operation, constraints and opportunities

• Experience of managing and working with professional teams

• Proficient at programming in Python, Matlab, or a similar

• Experience of dealing with influencing senior stakeholders

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.