Senior Analyst
Salary from £53,280 per annum plus strong benefits package and excellent career progression opportunities/support.
Benefits include: Our double match pension – where we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%, 36 days paid holidays, Share Schemes, Holiday purchase and much more (more details below)
Location: Glasgow, HQ
Permanent / Full Time
Hybrid
Help us create a better future, quicker
Role
* Communicate the regulatory contract with the Licence business, translating the contract into to data driven targets and objectives, and ensuring that regulatory targets and business strategy is understood and in line with regulatory expectations.
* Support the licence planning and delivery teams in successful delivery of the regulatory contract, across totex, volumes, commitments and secondary deliverables, and support the contract governance through investment approvals.
What you'll be doing
* Establish the key deliverables of the regulatory contract, and structure and communicate these with all relevant stakeholders, developing annual "Targets and Milestones" content in conjunction with Licence Delivery and Planning managers, and ensuring deliverability and efficiency.
* Prepare and communicate a prioritised investment plan, covering short and long-term time horizons. The plan covers a wide array of plant, overhead line and cables assets covering all voltages, which all have clear targets for costs and volumes which must be delivered over the 5-year price control period.
* Work closely with the business to understand the resource, engineering, regulatory and financial constraints which must be managed in line with delivery of the plan. Influence stakeholders across all levels to ensure knowledge transfer and plan acceptance is achieved.
* Provide advice and guidance to other SPEN departments to ensure that contractual obligations are understood and managed effectively, Support in preparing presentations and responses to requests for information from internal and external bodies.
* Translate the Guidance from the Regulator to support the business, and identify opportunities for outperformance, whilst mitigating risks to ensure that returns from the Regulatory Contract are maximised.
* Facilitate investment paper approvals to ensure in line with Regulatory allowance. Support and administer Investment approvals via governance, with the Control function, ensuring alignment with regulatory allowance.
* Work closely with the Licence businesses to ensure that their performance is understood, and that key issues are highlighted to appropriate stakeholders. Provide insight to Senior Leadership, and guidance on areas of focus.
* Identify and develop the systems and process to master the regulatory contract plan "the masterplan" within visible and accessible corporate systems aligned with principles and processes.
* Cultivating effective working relationships is key - work closely with stakeholders within Network Planning & Regulation, Control, and the Licences.
What you'll bring
* Strong analytical skills and mathematical abilities.
* Highly developed communication skills with the ability to influence the wider business population to proactively deliver SPEN's regulatory Contract in line with regulatory and internal Iberdrola expectations.
* Understanding of the UK regulatory framework, ability to drive value / opportunities and minimise regulatory risk, including specialist knowledge relating to the regulatory mechanisms which link totex with revenue
* Strong business planning, financial and strategic thinking.
* Manages frequent requests from across the business calling on regulatory expertise.
* Strong linkage to Control and the Commercial & Performance/Licence Programme functions in the Licensees, ensuring that boundaries of responsibility and future requirements are met.
What's in it for you
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow.
That's why our benefits include:
* 36 days annual leave
* Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
* Share Schemes
* Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
* Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
* Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
* Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
* Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
* Life Assurance (4x salary)
* Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
* Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
Why SP Energy Networks
SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously.
We're investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.
We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to
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Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.
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