M&A Risk Director

Job Description

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Centrica has an active M&A agenda and is now seeking value adding inorganic growth in its core markets, as well as acquisitions to help deliver its strategy. Working within the Group Financial Risk team the M&A Risk Director is responsible for understanding and communicating the financial risks associated with M&A activity. Working closely with the M&A transaction team, the role holder will analyse M&A deals and provide independent challenge to draw conclusions of the inherent risks. The M&A Risk Manager will be expected to report their conclusions and recommendations to the decision-making authority.

• Location: Windsor UK, flexible with travel as required

Key Accountabilities

Responsible for ensuring that Group-wide financial risks are understood for all M&A deals, under the responsibility of the Group CRO. More specifically:

• Managing internal team members and supporting the development of M&A risk analysts

• Evaluating business cases and providing independent challenge to fully understand the inherent risks and mitigations associated with the deals

• Ensuring that efficient and effective due diligence has been carried out

• Building relationships with M&A Transaction team, Treasury, and Corporate Finance

• Co-ordinating with wider risk team for specialist input as required

• Prepare regular updates for the Group CRO, summarising key risks and progress updates on live transactions

• Reviewing data provided by the M&A transaction team, including briefing materials, due diligence, risks register and dataroom, as appropriate

• Evaluating the risks associated to M&A transactions including buy-side transactions, sell-side transactions, joint ventures, and partnerships

• Validating M&A financial models used for valuing assets and financial impact analysis, providing an independent perspective of key financial risks

• Leading the development of appropriate risk metrics and the calculation of Risk Capital associated to the M&A deal pipeline

• Ensuring deal pipeline and anticipated risk capital requirements captured in shape and risk reporting processes

• Developing strong work relationships with the different Business Unit Risk teams

• Presentations to senior team members, senior executives of Business Units and/or Centrica Group executives relating to financial risks associated M&A transactions under consideration

• Presenting risk review papers at the Financial Risk Management Committee

Competencies

• Several years commodity price risk management experience, ideally gained in the energy commodity space

• Ideally having experience in M&A, business development and corporate finance transactions

• Experience in dealing with Senior Executives directly or their key team members

• Strong interpersonal skills, with good stakeholder management and ability to effectively challenge the business

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to produce high-quality output with minimal supervision

• Well organised, proactive and hands on to manage multiple projects to aggressive timelines

• Highly analytical, able to assess large volumes of complex information and distil the key themes for presentation to the Exec and Board

• Good attention to detail

• Confident, resilient, and pragmatic. Comfortable dealing with uncertainties and incomplete information

• Graduate degree in analytical/quantitative field (e.g. mathematics, quantitative finance, operational research, science, engineering, etc.)

• Strong understanding and ability to apply corporate finance theory

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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