Senior Demand Forecaster - Global Energy Major – Midlands - Up to £40k

International Blue Chip Energy major seeks a Senior Demand Forecasting Analyst to join their expanding forecasting team. This is a commercial role, where you will be in a team lead position in charge of up to 4 persons with the opportunity to further your career progression within the energy downstream margin.

Main Responsibilities:

- Delivery of accurate and timely short term and long term operational demand forecasts of gas to Trading Arms and Portfolio Management, together with an understanding of the forecasts and advice on uncertainty and risk.
- Delivery of understanding and interpretation of actual Mass Market and I&C settlement data to Retail Finance.
- Minimising the gas balancing market penalties attributable to forecast uncertainty and meeting internal and external targets for forecasting performance.
- Accurate handling of very significant data flows and processing and ensuring the robustness, integrity and documentation of processes.
- Provide ad hoc analytical modelling to improve processes and opportunities across the wider Retail business including undertaking activities and projects within and outside of the immediate team to leverage further value from the role holder’s skills and expertise.

The successful individual will have:

- A numerate degree
- Knowledge of UK Gas & Power markets
- Experience in commercial/analytical data manipulation
- An understanding of the drivers of gas demand of large customers (customer profiles, weather etc) and therefore develop and update accurate forecasting models.
- Strong Technical skills – SQL, VBA, programming languages

If you are interested please send in your most recent CV to receive further information.






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