Financial Advisor
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Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
12/19/2024
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Description
Location
Cardiff, Glasgow, London
About The Job
Job summary
Ofgem works on behalf of energy consumers to ensure that every household and business in Great Britain can rely on a safe and environmentally sustainable energy supply.
What we do matters: making a difference to people’s lives now, and for generations to come. We offer a diverse range of flexible working career opportunities: roles that are stimulating and rewarding. And it’s important to us that we recruit from a wide range of professional and personal backgrounds – bringing different perspectives and experiences to our work.
To promote a financially resilient market, our Financial Advisory teams undertake market monitoring activity and provide financial advice and analysis on a wide range of market issues. Our team plays a vital part in providing expert financial advice on new market entrants, the financial health of established suppliers, trade sales, market and supplier-specific financial risks and critical policy decisions. In this role you will offer expert financial advice on regulated retail and commercial activities.
Working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, you will provide input on key finance issues, such as cost of capital, capital structures for regulated entities. More broadly, you will support Ofgem’s corporate and regulatory finance work across all areas of the organisation, providing corporate and regulatory finance advice to policy and other teams. You will also offer technical advice on the cost of debt and equity, gearing, rating agencies and other issues.
It’s a role that will suit someone with Great quantitative and qualitative analytical skills with demonstrable experience of analysis techniques, risk assessments and operational expertise. You’ll enjoy developing, planning and delivering projects, requiring minimal supervision and you should offer good all-round communication skills. You should have a good knowledge of project management and analytics and be confident in detailed financial statement analysis. It’s important that you can build positive relationships with different stakeholders.
Within Ofgem you will be part of our Analysis Profession which will support you in all aspects of personal and professional development. Whether it is formal or informal training or further education we are here to support you in your career in Ofgem.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities of this Role
Essential Criteria
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Alongside your salary of £34,123, OFGEM contributes £9,885 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but is in review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be directed to a Civil Service test – guidance for this can be found here Civil Service online tests - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Upon passing the test, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.
You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expect all candidates to abide by these principles. Ofgem take any incidences of cheating very seriously. Please ensure all examples provided are of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .
Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window) .
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
Cardiff, Glasgow, London
About The Job
Job summary
Ofgem works on behalf of energy consumers to ensure that every household and business in Great Britain can rely on a safe and environmentally sustainable energy supply.
What we do matters: making a difference to people’s lives now, and for generations to come. We offer a diverse range of flexible working career opportunities: roles that are stimulating and rewarding. And it’s important to us that we recruit from a wide range of professional and personal backgrounds – bringing different perspectives and experiences to our work.
To promote a financially resilient market, our Financial Advisory teams undertake market monitoring activity and provide financial advice and analysis on a wide range of market issues. Our team plays a vital part in providing expert financial advice on new market entrants, the financial health of established suppliers, trade sales, market and supplier-specific financial risks and critical policy decisions. In this role you will offer expert financial advice on regulated retail and commercial activities.
Working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, you will provide input on key finance issues, such as cost of capital, capital structures for regulated entities. More broadly, you will support Ofgem’s corporate and regulatory finance work across all areas of the organisation, providing corporate and regulatory finance advice to policy and other teams. You will also offer technical advice on the cost of debt and equity, gearing, rating agencies and other issues.
It’s a role that will suit someone with Great quantitative and qualitative analytical skills with demonstrable experience of analysis techniques, risk assessments and operational expertise. You’ll enjoy developing, planning and delivering projects, requiring minimal supervision and you should offer good all-round communication skills. You should have a good knowledge of project management and analytics and be confident in detailed financial statement analysis. It’s important that you can build positive relationships with different stakeholders.
Within Ofgem you will be part of our Analysis Profession which will support you in all aspects of personal and professional development. Whether it is formal or informal training or further education we are here to support you in your career in Ofgem.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities of this Role
- Assist in the monitoring of the licensees’ ring fence submissions and financial resilience measures and where required identify efficiencies and improvements to the licence, guidance, reporting framework and review process.
- Support in providing technical finance advice relating to ring fence compliance and financial resilience matters including licence derogation requests and finance advice on new licence applications.
- Engage and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on matters related to ring fence compliance and financial resilience. External stakeholders include, but are not limited to, HM Government, sector regulators, UK Regulators Network and regulated companies.
- Prepare high quality documentation of all analysis and decisions.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across Regulatory Finance to support the team’s contribution to the overall Ofgem work plan.
Essential Criteria
- Have or working towards a recognised finance qualification, e.g. CFA, MSc Finance or have relevant finance or commercial experience, that can be demonstrated by proven record of high performance and substantial achievements in past positions. (Lead criteria)
- Ability to process and communicate complex financial information and data to varied audiences. (Lead criteria)
- Experience of building internal & external relationships at all levels.
- Knowledge and awareness of Ofgem’s activities, including broad working knowledge of the UK’s political/regulatory landscape and the energy industry.
- Highly proficient with Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Confident in problem solving with experience using complex information in order to enable effective decision-making.
- A motivated, self-starter who develops, plans and delivers work outcomes, including setting clear and transparent work objectives, milestones and success metric.
- Have experience of developing and managing a range of options and decisions that align with your organisation’s priorities.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Please refer to the Candidate Pack and Role Profile attached for full details.
Alongside your salary of £34,123, OFGEM contributes £9,885 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but is in review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be directed to a Civil Service test – guidance for this can be found here Civil Service online tests - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Upon passing the test, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.
You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expect all candidates to abide by these principles. Ofgem take any incidences of cheating very seriously. Please ensure all examples provided are of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .
Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window) .
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Jennifer Hughes
- Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
- Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
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