Senior Strategic Commercial Finance Manager - Energy

Exciting opportunity for to join an expanding energy business in a newly created role as Senior Commercial Finance Manager. Reporting to the Commercial Director, this role will be responsible for working with finance, trading, regulation, business development and operations to ensure strong commercial outcomes for the business and co-ordinating several strategic programmes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance revenue, efficiency, and long-term productivity across the business, delivering tangible commercial value.
• Oversee key commercial risks, including revenue and cost hedging strategies
• Deliver insightful financial and operational KPIs to support asset performance
• Involved in evaluating capital investments and business development opportunities, ensuring commercial viability and risk mitigation during business establishment phases.
• Design and negotiate new contractual arrangements to optimise commercial outcomes and manage risk
• Foster collaboration across the organisation to identify future commercial opportunities, streamline processes, and share best practices across the Group.
• Ensure that regulatory updates and changes as assessed based on the commercial impact on the business
• Lead business planning activities, aligning strategic goals with operational execution.
• Promote economically sound decision-making through robust economic analysis and high-quality management information
• Provide commercial and economic insights to align business planning with maintenance and investment strategies
• Leverage data analysis to enhance contractor performance, focusing on cost flexibility, maintenance efficiency, and investment planning.
• Support analysis of gross margin including market modelling of revenues (capacity, energy, ancillary) and costs (fuel, O&M).
• Negotiate fuel and commodity agreements, including physical and financial instruments (futures, options, freight).
• Produce detailed reports covering market positions, key trends, hedging status, mark-to-market valuations, credit exposure, and related metrics.

Requirements:

• Minimum 2.1 Honours Degree in Finance, Business, Economics or Engineering related degree
• Excellent analytical skills, able to digest large amounts of data, identify the key issues and present these in a concise and clear manner to non-subject matter experts.
• Ability to employ complex analytical tools and statistics to perform analysis and forecasting of financial and other business information.
• 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.
• Process improvement and change management activities.
• SEM Market and trading an advantage
• 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