Pricing Analyst

Pricing Analyst

Home Based / Hybrid / Flexible

Overview

At Centrica Business Solutions (CBS) we provide integrated energy solutions that deliver cost efficiency, resilience and accelerate our customers’ journeys to a low carbon future. We serve business and public sector organisations, increasingly focusing on delivering decarbonisation of power, heating and transport through our portfolio of solutions.

Sitting in CBS Energy Supply (medium to large company energy supply retail) the main responsibilities of your role will be to ensure the accuracy of customer prices via validating both the input and output of the various pricing systems, and to ensure the maintenance and updating of Flexible contract customers’ prices into the Billing system. This role is a great development opportunity for someone who wants to start a career as an analyst who has strong numerical skills and/or who has recently graduated. We will consider visa sponsorship for this role.

The Role

You will have some of the following accountabilities in your role:

• To prepare, review, validate and where necessary modify tender data received from our Sales team and use this data to generate accurate and cost reflective prices in a timely manner.
• To receive, format, analyse and validate the forward commodity curve made and ensure the successful application of the latest available commodity curve within the pricing system.
• Work with the Flexible Products team during the contract rounds to upload the Flexible contract prices to the billing system in an accurate and timely manner.
• Support the Cost Forecasting analysts to prepare, maintain and update non-commodity costs into the various pricing systems.
• Maintain customer portfolio information – site lists, meter details, consumption data, supply status.
• Manage and respond to queries from colleagues, customers and third parties
• Undertake portfolio and operational process analysis to ensure continual improvement in working practice and improvement in accuracy and efficiency.

The Person

We would like you to have some of the following experience:

Work Experience & Functional/Technical Skills

• Some relevant work experience
• Experience working with Microsoft Office, in particular Excel
• Proficiency with SQL or VBA would be beneficial
• Numerically strong with high standards for quality and accuracy
• Experience in an analytical or operational role.
• Experience working to tight deadlines

Education and Certifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent (preferably in a numerical or statistical discipline) is desirable, but not essential.

Competencies

• Consistently produces high quality work
• Responds positively to changing requirements of own role
• Is self-sufficient, able to work without constant supervision
• Takes ownership to get matters resolved
• Meets deadlines and focuses on key tasks and deliverables
• Understands impact of actions on profitability
• Seeks opportunities for gaining knowledge or experience
• Collaborates with others to achieve mutual goals
• Deals with customer requests promptly

#LI-CBS

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!