Senior Consultant - Energy & Utilities
Senior Consultant - Energy & Utilities
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Job Description
PAs Economics & Investment Strategy Capability
Operating at the leading edge of consulting our multi-disciplinary teams combine deep economics expertise industry knowledge and a structured decision-making approach to help clients understand the potential impacts benefits and return on investment of strategic decisions. Our capabilities include:
- Strategy: We specialise in securing investments in public and private sector infrastructure and technology from developing high-level strategies through to authoring business cases.
- Economics: We apply economic principles and analysis to support policy development economic regulation and benefits appraisal helping clients to understand long-term impacts on various markets
- Modelling: We develop operational economic and financial models to help understand the impact of various options/scenarios and ultimately guide and evidence strategic decision-making.
Our clients choose us because we challenge convention to find the solutions that really work in practice not just on paper. We define success as achieving exceptional results that have a lasting impact on businesses communities and team members. Its a principle that underpins everything we do.
Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment including up to 5 days per week on a client site.
Qualifications :
We are hiring consultants with relevant professional experience in either a consulting role or in the energy industry who are natural problem-solvers and constantly curious. Attributes that we are looking for include:
Capability-specific skills
Demonstrable experience in at least one of the following capabilities:
Strategy:
- Business strategies for regulated utilities especially electricity networks and water companies and/or
- Offshore wind auction bidding strategies (e.g. for AR7) and/or
- Strategies for hydrogen markets including use cases and commercial models
Economics:
- Economic regulation of utilities including outputs & incentives cost benchmarking and cost of capital and/or Power market design including wholesale energy markets capacity markets and ancillary service markets and/or
- Revenue support mechanisms for energy infrastructure such as CfDs RAB models and cap & floor arrangements
Modelling:
- Financial modelling for the energy and utilities sector including particularly for investment valuation and price control financial modelling
- Strong technical skills in the development and application of power market forecasting models (specifically in PLEXOS software) and/or
- Strong technical skills and proficiency in offshore wind auction modelling
Core skills:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to simplify and present technical complexity in an accessible way
- The ability to balance strategic big picture problem solving with detailed analysis
- The ability to apply sound logic backed up with appropriate analysis to support decision-making and recommendations
- Proactive collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver tangible outcomes
Our consultants are expected to be hands-on working together with our clients to bring energy direction and expertise to help them solve their most pressing strategic challenges. We pride ourselves in partnering alongside clients the best way to deliver real and long-lasting value. This often means travelling to client locations to work on-site.
In addition to the formal benefits set out below we are passionate about the personal and career development of all our consultants. Our team is committed to providing the opportunities support training and coaching required at all levels to ensure our consultants can all achieve their potential.
We know the skill-gap and somewhat need to tick every box can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates so please dont hesitate to apply wed love to hear from you.
Apply today by completing our online application
Additional Information :
Life At PA encompasses our peoples experience at PA. Its about how we enrich peoples working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams and support our communities to deliver insight and impact solving the worlds most complex challenges. Were focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.
Find out more about Life at PA here.
We are dedicated to supporting the physical emotional social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work give as you earn)
Were committed to advancing equality. We recruit retain reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age background disability genetic information parental or family status religion or belief race ethnicity nationality sex sexual orientation gender identity (or expression) political belief veteran status or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
