Debt Strategy and Performance Portfolio Analyst

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

Debt Strategy and Performance Portfolio Analyst

We’re looking for a brilliant Debt Strategy and Performance Portfolio Analyst to join our team of colleagues in British Gas Business, that together are setting the standard in energy supply.

In the complicated world of energy, we strive to make energy simple, creating a straightforward and hassle-free experience for our customers.

Our philosophy is success comes when we’re in it together, trusting each other and having fun along the way. And because we’ve got big plans to help our homes and businesses get closer to net zero, we can’t stand still. We need to be always learning, ready to grow and move forward.

Work as part of Debt Strategy and Performance team to reduce overall cost of BGB Energy Debt to BGB through focus on delivery of debt / bad debt charge forecasting & performance analytics to support robust debt management understanding and enable commercial decision making. Leading on projects to increase upfront controls which affect perceived debt risk exposure and financial provisioning.

Accountabilities

• Responsible for reporting monthly debt and bad debt provision movement - liaising closely with Finance to ensure accurate, timely reporting & provide monthly commentary to explain performance.
• Producing and leading the weekly KPI tracking to highlight key trends, risks and opportunities.
• Leading the Monthly write off process, ensuring all opportunities to collect debt are exhausted, and where not, enabling a clean collectable debt book.
• Supporting periodic provision model refreshes with detailed insight into changes in portfolio performance and customer risk.
• Providing clear, timely information to support periodic audit requirements.
• Leading on projects with a range of stakeholders to increase up front controls which affect debt risk.
  

Experience

• Strong understanding of forecasting models & provisioning.
• Experience of identifying risks and opportunities and engaging stakeholders to deliver strategies to exploit/mitigate.
• Experience of linking operational performance and financial outcomes.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• SAS Skills essential.
• Energy Industry knowledge advantageous.

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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