Associate Director of Commercial Finance
Application Deadline:
7 November ****
Department:
Commercial & Regulation
Employment Type:
Permanent - Full Time
Location:
EP Dublin Energy
Reporting To:
Director of Commercial Finance (All-Island)
Description
An opportunity has arisen to recruit an Associate Director of Commercial Finance, based in our Dublin offices.
The successful candidate will have responsibility for co-ordinating a number of strategic programmes across the All-Island marker, and will liaise between various departments across the business to ensure commercial outcomes are achieved.
Key Responsibilities
Identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance revenue, efficiency, and long-term productivity across the business, delivering tangible commercial value.
Overseeing key commercial risks, including revenue and cost hedging strategies, ensuring robust mitigation measures are in place.
Delivering insightful financial and operational KPIs to support asset performance and meet group reporting standards.
Assisting the GB team in evaluating capital investments and business development opportunities, ensuring commercial viability and risk mitigation during business establishment phases.
Designing and negotiating new contractual arrangements to optimize commercial outcomes and manage risk, whilst overseeing contractor litigation and developing mitigation strategies for existing agreements.
Fostering collaboration across the organization to identify future commercial opportunities, streamline processes, and share best practices across the Group.
Ensuring that regulatory updates and changes are assessed based on the commercial impact on the business and align regulatory strategy to optimise commercial outcomes.
Leading business planning activities across the All-Island operations, aligning strategic goals with operational execution.
Promoting economically sound decision-making through robust economic analysis and high-quality management information, supporting investment, procurement, and operational strategies.
Providing commercial and economic insights to align business planning with maintenance and investment strategies, ensuring both short-term and long-term objectives are met.
Leveraging data analysis to enhance contractor performance, focusing on cost flexibility, maintenance efficiency, and investment planning.
Supporting the analysis of gross margin for the Island of Ireland portfolio, including market modeling of revenues (capacity, energy, ancillary) and costs (fuel, O&M), to inform: commodity and hedging strategies; budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning; business development initiatives; regulatory and TSO negotiations; commercial contract management.
Negotiating fuel and commodity agreements, including physical and financial instruments (futures, options, freight).
Providing commercial and financial guidance on the management of existing operating assets within the All-Island business.
Producing detailed reports covering market positions, key trends, hedging status, mark-to-market valuations, credit exposure, and related metrics.
Collaborating with the EPDEL trading team to evaluate and support effective trading and long-term hedging strategies, whilst ensuring all bids are aligned with policy and cost recovery requirements.
Ensuring adherence to risk management policies and procedures through regular review of commercial activities.
Contributing to the development and management of team members, fostering a high-performance culture.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Background
Experience of managing and prioritising multiple competing demands on time.
Experience of Commercial evaluation and negotiations eg, Procurement, Acquisitions and due diligence and Contractual disputes.
Experience of litigation management.
Able to employ complex analytical tools and statistics to performance analysis and forecasting of financial and other business information.
Knowledge of investment analysis.
Knowledge of process improvement and change management activities.
Knowledge of the ISEM market and trading would be an advantage.
Behaviours
Excellent analytical skills, being able to digest large amounts of data (numerical and text), identifying the key issues and presenting these in a concise and clear manner to non subject matter experts.
Self-starter with exceptional organisational and project management/co-ordination skills.
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills and have the confidence to liaise with executive management teams.
Qualifications
Minimum 2:1 Honours Degree in a Finance, Business, Economics or Engineering related subject.
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