Senior Margin Analyst

EDF Energy is a core part of the EDF Group, one of the largest energy companies in Europe with key business operations in the UK, France, Italy and Belgium. We're the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon electricity, the biggest supplier of electricity by volume in Great Britain, the largest supplier to British businesses and we employ more than 13,000 people. We operate nuclear, coal and gas power stations, wind farms, and combined heat & power plants. We have a focus on safe, dependable energy generation and an ethos of service excellence. We are playing a leading role in new nuclear build in the UK to secure a bright future for the combined business and its employees.
Senior Margin Analyst
Do you have commercial acumen coupled with strong financial modelling and data analytics?
Are you comfortable using data to identify meaningful trends and patterns to inform decisions?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity here at EDF for a Senior Margin Analyst to join our team!
The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for you to apply your commercial and financial skills in helping Britain achieve net zero!
You’ll join the team which is driving the commercials of energy usage in the homes and small businesses of the future, as they increasingly adopt new technology like electric vehicles, heat pumps, batteries and solar installations. You’ll structure and design commercial mass-market propositions for this future, all while taking accountability for managing the margin from one of Britain’s largest residential and small business portfolios.
Pay, benefits and culture
Alongside a salary negotiable depending on experience and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.
Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts and employee pricing.
Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we’ll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively. You will however be required in either the Exeter or Hove office once a week.
At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.
What you’ll be doing
Some of what you’ll do:
- Financial modelling – performing Discounted Cashflow or Lifetime Value analysis for investment valuations and market positioning.
- Market scanning – assess the landscape and identify key opportunities to create value for EDF and our customers.
- Develop innovative structures to bring value to customers and enable the transition to net zero, e.g. electric vehicle tariffs, flexibility services, time-of-use tariffs.
- Margin strategy – analyse our products, costs and operating context to define our margin targets.
- Take end-to-end ownership of the commercial aspects of bringing products to market, e.g. price setting.
- Forecasting the size and energy needs of our customer book, to enable effective purchasing.
- Provide commercial business partnering across the wider Retail organisation, e.g. contract negotiations, new sales channels or investment appraisals.
- Work with Data Product teams to develop and enhance cutting edge analytical tools that support and enable these decisions.Who you are Financial modelling/commercial analysis
- Strong ability to build financial models, e.g., discount cash flow analysis for valuations or Lifetime Value models for market positioning.
- Able to weigh up multiple scenarios, consider multiple factors and present options / outcomes to aid decisions.
- Comfortable reviewing financial outputs and drawing conclusions about performance.Data analytics
- Data transformation using tools like Excel, Alteryx or SQL to combine datasets and extract required information.
- Build clear visualisations in tools like Excel or Tableau to convey information and gain insight.Relationship building
- Able to work effectively across the organisation on commercial matters and provide value input and perspectives on non-commercial matters.Presentation skills
- Good presentation skills and ability to put forward recommendations confidently.Market and regulatory context
- An understanding and interest in the energy market and regulatory context and ability to represent this in decision making.Closing date for applications: 23.01.2024Location: Hove/Exeter/Home working
Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.