Financial Modeller

This Financial Modeller will report to the Finance Manager and will work within the UKPN Services Finance directorate based in our Crawley, Energy House office. You will be a permanent employee with a salary of £58,000.00 and a bonus of 7.5%. This role can also offer blended working after a probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote.

We also provide the following additional benefits:

• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers’ products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

About the department:

UKPN Services is the unregulated business of UKPN. We finance, own, operate and maintain energy infrastructure for commercial and industrial customers, including several private networks that are part of the critical national infrastructure. We provide energy solutions which optimise existing assets, and we integrate new technologies to deliver improved performance and commercial benefits.

The role:

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will lead the financial modelling process to support sales, marketing and the bidding for new work typically up to £100 million capital cost. You will oversee the complex financial and commercial models to identify competitive advantage opportunities, deliver value engineering and ensure bids are competitive, our investments are cognisant of the risks and opportunities and assessing the impact on the business's short and long-term earnings forecasts. You will partner with the Asset, Engineering, Commercial and Finance teams to ensure all income and costs associated with our propositions and future investments are correctly identified. Additionally, you will develop investment models accurately and work with the Business Development Team to prepare bid documents and commercial agreements, and the Finance team to ensure the investment models are approved. Whilst you will work in Crawley, West Sussex to engage with business activities, you will also need to travel to other UKPN Services locations and project sites to partner with the business development teams.

Skills & Responsibilities:

You will have experience in an analytical or commercial role within finance, consulting or business development. You will understand the Utilities and Energy industry market principles and asset investment modelling for propositions such as ICP/IDNO, solar and batteries. Experience of asset acquisitions will be beneficial. You will have excellent numerical and financial knowledge and a curiosity and capacity to understand complex financial, commercial and project issues. Additionally, you will collaborate with different audiences and levels, tailoring the communication to suit the situation.

To be successful, we believe that you will have the following experience:

• Fully qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA (or equivalent) is desirable
• Experience with accounting principles (e.g. P&L/cash-flow/BS build-up, depreciation/tax calcs)
• Experience working with modelling standards e.g. FAST standard
• Good data manipulation skills
• Experience of PowerBI is desirable (Knowledge of SQL is a plus, but not essential)
• Experience of asset acquisition
• You will work directly with clients and business partners
• Exposure to project finance/debt raising processes beneficial

Health & Safety Responsibilities:

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment. Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.