Asset Risk and Strategy Analyst

Asset Risk and Strategy Analyst

Competitive salary starting from £41,570 dependent upon your skills and experience

Thorpe Park, Leeds or Doxford Park, Sunderland

Up to 10% bonus

Permanent role

We have an amazing opportunity for someone to work within the Asset Strategy Team in our Regulatory and Strategic Planning department as an Asset Risk and Strategy Analyst. You will be supporting NGN's investment decision-making and quantifying the value impact of NGN’s strategic investment programme.

We are looking for a self-starter, who can pick up and develop new concepts quickly and work as part of an agile and supportive team. Previous experience in an analytical role would be an advantage, however, we will work with the right candidate to provide the training and support to ensure you are equipped with the skills to be successful in this role.

Your key accountabilities and responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the configuration and maintenance of NGN's Asset Investment Planning decision support tool through maintenance of the software code (C#), following quality assurance processes
• Leading the annual reporting of NGN performance against the Network Asset Risk Metric (NARM) and supporting the business in monitoring of NGN’s performance against it
• Ensuring alignment of our asset level strategies to NGN’s strategic business objectives and manage risk and service outputs over multiple time periods (5 - 25 years)
• Optimising investment plans on 0 - 10-year timescales using NGN's Asset Investment Planning decision support tool and carrying out analysis/providing analytical support to the Asset Strategy, Investment Planning and RIIO-GD3 Business planning teams
• Working with multi-disciplined teams including statisticians, economists, and engineers and attending internal and external meetings as required
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• You would be ideally degree educated in an analytical subject or have relevant industry experience
• You will possess strong critical thinking, analytical and numeracy skills
• Experience of using coding language such as Python, R script, C#. The role involves the maintenance and improvement of NGN’s Decision Support Tool code which will require the use of C#
• An aptitude to learn and develop new concepts and skills quickly
• Have the ability to effectively communicate challenging concepts with a range of stakeholders
• Ensure that you have full eligibility to work in the UK
  
  

What We Offer

• Salary ranging from £41,570 to £48,065 dependent upon your skills and experience
• Up to 10% bonus
• 40 hours a week on a permanent personal contract
• Free onsite parking
• 25 days annual leave (plus recognised bank holidays and 2 half days over the Christmas period)
• SSP for first 2 calendar days then occupational sick pay
• A generous stakeholder 5/10 pension scheme
• Flexible benefits and salary sacrifice options... from discounts on a variety of UK attractions, gym membership, restaurant discounts, experience days...and much more!
• An array of fantastic family- friendly policies such as 6 weeks' paternity leave (for eligible employees) and 6 months' full pay for employees on maternity leave (for eligible employees), as well as shared parental leave and many more!
  
  

We are ... Northern Gas Networks. We deliver gas to 2.7 million homes and businesses in the North East, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire. That’s around 6.7million individual customers. We don’t generate or sell the gas, but we transport it to homes and businesses in our region through a vast network of underground pipes. In fact, we own and maintain more than 37,000km of gas pipes - enough to stretch from Leeds to Sydney and back again. We cover large cities like Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds, York, Hull, and Bradford, and our work extends to rural areas like North Yorkshire and Cumbria.

Our Values are at the heart of what we do. In addition to your key responsibilities, you will incorporate these into the daily life of your role. We are … Trailblazing, Empowered, Heartfelt, Community Focused, Intellectually Curious and most of all we are Happy!

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion culture at NGN is embedded in everything that we do. We will be delighted to hear from a diverse range of applicants, so we can continue to grow our great team of people. We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant, helping ex-services personnel back into employment, as well as being members of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) and we are committed to delivering our ‘Opportunity Action Plan’ having signed the Social Mobility Pledge campaign, whereby we will establish our business as a ‘force for good’ in the communities that we serve.

Next Steps. Please send us your application by clicking apply and uploading your CV. We love to see how your experience and skills are transferable to this role so please ensure these are all included in your application. Once the advert has closed, we will be contact with you as soon as possible to let you know if you have progressed to the next stage. We are looking to hold interviews for this role throughout March. We look forward to receiving your application for the role.

If you require adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process, we want to hear about how we can help. Any applicant that requires reasonable adjustments from initial application through to interview are asked to contact the Recruitment Team at [email protected]