M&A Director

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.

Introduction to Centrica

Centrica is a leading energy services and solutions company focused on helping our customers live sustainably, simply and affordably. Our business is founded on a 200-year heritage of serving people. We supply energy and services to over 10 million residential and business customers, mainly in the UK and Ireland, through strong brands such as British Gas, Bord Gáis and Centrica Business Solutions, supported by around 7,000 engineers and technicians.

Introduction to Group M&A team

Centrica’s Group M&A team leads the origination and execution of M&A activity of Centrica plc, ranging from strategic transactions like the sale of Direct Energy in 2021 to bolt-on transactions like the acquisition of Nabuh Energy. Centrica has an active M&A agenda, including an ambition to deliver growth through M&A and inorganic investments.

The Group M&A team also maintains regular dialogue with a broad range of market participants to gather intelligence and identify potential business development opportunities. It is a highly regarded team within Centrica and is often a sounding board for Executive Management and Business Units evaluating strategic options.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead M&A transactions (acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and partnerships), managing internal team members and external advisors to deliver transactions, including:
• Building and evaluating business cases, driving the internal approval process, valuation & analytics, managing diligence, deal structuring, negotiations and ensuring appropriate handoff to for integration team (if necessary)
• Ensure efficient and effective due diligence processes across functional disciplines at the company, including the proper documentation of diligence findings during the transaction process
• Leading the development, origination and negotiation of any significant partnership arrangements
• Pro-actively developing relationships with current and likely key players
• Helping to position Centrica as a thought leader in future development
• Developing, supporting and monitoring progress on end to end corporate development opportunities and supporting BU strategy leads in formation and execution of those strategies
• Day to day management of the M&A team, including:
• Co-managing resource allocation with the teams other Directors
• Supporting development of junior M&A team members
• Lead the M&A team’s dialogue with Centrica’s functional teams
• Partner with BU teams to understand their strategic objectives, and highlight relevant M&A and corporate development opportunities
• Manage and co-ordinate relationships with counterparties of group-wide significance for Centrica
• Build relationships with industry and professional groups (including Banks, Accounting firms, energy investors and potential industry counterparties)
• Prepare regular updates for the Group Head of M&A, summarising key issues and progress updates on live transactions and highlighting other topics of interest in relation to ongoing M&A and corporate development activities

The Person:

• Strong understanding and ability to apply corporate finance theory. An accounting qualification would be advantageous but is not a requirement
• Experience managing deal teams, including external advisors
• Track record of managing and delivering key value-adding elements of a strategic project or transaction, independently, or with minimal support
• Executive presence that allows the successful candidate to be credible at the senior management level, with internal and external parties
• Experience in a large, complex, multi-location international enterprise
• Deep knowledge of Centrica's business and markets and ability to turn this knowledge into commercial opportunities
• Ability to identify and assess commercial and strategic opportunities
• Ability to present ideas and information clearly, tailoring the presentation style and content to engage relevant audiences
• Strong negotiation and process management skills
• Excellent networking, communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Act with integrity and role model behaviours that support health, wellbeing, safety and the environment
• Show initiative and strive to deliver excellence, taking accountability for outcomes and for personal / team development

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.