Energy Compliance Consultant

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.

We have a brilliant new opportunity for an Energy Compliance Consultant to join our Energy Compliance team. The Energy Compliance team is responsible for establishing and maintaining a robust compliance framework for energy and ensuring the governance structure within which the framework sits is effective.

Location: We embrace flexible working through our Flexible First arrangements, as we believe that empowered colleagues are happier and more productive. However, the successful candidate must be comfortable commuting to our Windsor office regularly.

What will you do?

• Advisory & Assurance: Operational delivery of pro-active advice and assurance activities working within a team and with wider members of Centrica (for example Internal Audit, Risk colleagues, etc) or other subject experts. This will primarily involve designing and completing testing of conduct risks and/or controls, to be able to identify gaps and issues relating to customer harm, and to clearly communicate these and the potential implications, and to monitor and sign-off the associated remedial actions.
• Governance: Assist in the maintenance and oversight of the governance framework developed for the regulated entity (British Gas Trading Ltd) and ensure its alignment with the energy compliance framework.
• Regulatory Reporting: Oversee Regulatory Reporting, engages with key stakeholders to help ensure returns are accurately submitted in a timely manner to regulatory obligations.

Who are we looking for?

Our Energy Compliance team ensures that Centrica adheres to all relevant energy laws and regulations. Building strong relationships with senior management is crucial, as is providing close support to various business areas. Therefore, you must be capable of developing excellent working relationships across all levels of the Centrica Group and becoming a trusted advisor to key business leaders.

It would be great if you could also bring the following;

• Proven experience in a regulated environment with a solid understanding of the energy supply regulatory framework is desirable.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to propose practical actions and tailor communications to various stakeholder levels.
• Proficient in absorbing and manipulating information/data from multiple sources and formats (e.g., Microsoft Excel, PowerBI, operational systems) to drive Assurance insights, review conclusions, and proportionate actions.
• Capable of understanding, identifying, and clearly articulating risks and controls related to a wide range of issues, with a focus on conduct risk and customer outcomes, and designing testing activities in line with departmental methodology.
• Engage with stakeholders openly, honestly, and productively to promote collaborative working.

We are proud to be recognised as a disability-confident employer. Our customers come from a variety of different backgrounds, and so do we. We hire great people from all walks of life, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue championing inclusivity while investing in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world for everyone. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised by The Times for being one of the Top 50 Employers for Women.

Our people are the beating heart of our business. We are incredibly proud of our commitment to being FlexFirst. From childcare to furry friends, we listened to our people and understood that they work best when they are comfortable and have a flexible working model that suits their individual needs. We embrace the opportunity to give our colleagues a choice to work from anywhere whilst still ensuring they can connect and engage with their teams through office days, employee networks and virtual events.

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows;

• Competitive salary and bonus potential
• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
• Pension scheme
• Company Funded Healthcare Plan
• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days
• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

We are committed to creating a cleaner and greener future. And we’re making big changes to help us get there. That means cutting customers' emissions and our own to reach net zero. And because our people are the beating heart of our business, we will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better world for everyone. As part of our reforestation project with WeForest, for every new employee that joins our family, we plant trees in underprivileged areas in Tanzania to offer farming and wildlife economy opportunities for locals.

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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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.