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Job Description
Job Title: Management Consulting Senior Manager
Role: Energy Trading Senior Manager (Power)
Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh
Career Level: Senior Manager
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.
We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.
“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO
As a team:
We are a diverse team of driven individuals, sharing a common passion for driving the carbon net zero agenda across our wide-ranging portfolio of clients. Our mission is to expedite the energy transition; reducing emissions whilst ensuring a stable and affordable energy supply enabling robust future economic development. From strategy development and delivering innovative new technologies through to enabling organisational and operational excellence, we are committed to a global sustainable future for our clients.
Our team thrives on shared success, diverse ways of problem solving and boundaryless opportunities across clients and locations that drive each of our careers in new and exciting ways. We are working with our clients to harness the opportunities the energy transition creates to develop build new business lines and capitalize on new market opportunities.
From massive scale capital infrastructure projects building new energy generation plants, to ensuring UK critical national infrastructure grid resilience, through to enabling energy traders to settle on a half-hourly basis, our team are at the forefront.
In this role you will work with Utilities, Energy Majors, Trading Houses and Platform providers across the trading landscape, on a huge variety of projects. Typical examples of the types of work we do include new product development, market entry strategy, trading performance analysis & reporting, technology strategy, quantitative trading implementation, regulatory strategy and technology driven transformation.
As part of our team you will learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that embraces your individuality. You will be challenged and rewarded while surrounded by a highly passionate and supportive team. A core part of our mentality is that together we thrive and together we will succeed in achieving net zero.
In our team you will learn:
- How to work with our diverse utilities client base to solve their most difficult problems on the national stage
- On the forefront of massive business case value to drive change in the relationship consumers’ have with energy, and the regulation this dictates how their use and the impact on the environment
- The delivery of truly innovative work on the back of emergent technologies to support the changes to energy trading as a result of the energy transition
- The benefit of working across multiple geographic locations and workforces, with access to our global knowledge and capability network through teaming with high calibre Accenture colleagues bringing a wealth of industry and functional experience
As an Energy Trading Senior Manager (Power) you will:
- Support clients to transform energy trading operations to deliver on the opportunities that the energy transition creates
- Design, develop and deliver new products and services that enable business and domestic customers to participate in flexibility markets
- Support clients develop compelling market propositions, technical solutions and asset management capabilities for both grid scale and behind-the-meter flexibility
- Advise on the development of ETRM solutions to support changes to the energy landscape, including PPA growth, CFDs, intermittent generation, growth of renewables, battery co-location, etc.
- Assess trading performance in both curve and short-term developing insight to drive new sources of value in the market
- Understand the implications and opportunities from the latest changes to power trading regulations and the impact that will have on trading opportunities e.g. assets being able to participate in new markets
- Use your relationship and stakeholder management skills to accomplish team objectives
- Clearly communicate complex ideas (written, conversational and presentation delivery)
- Collaborate with digital practitioners globally to share latest thinking and insight on technology changes and implications for clients
- Develop partnerships with leading SaaS and technology provides in the energy trading and flexibility markets to support clients with market leading advice on technology driven opportunities
Qualifications
We are looking for experience in the following skills:
- 9 years+ industry experience in the power trading market
- Energy flexibility across, technology, regulation, trading and product develop in both grid scale and BTM
- Curve, short term trading, hedging strategies and risk management
- ETRM technology market place, core product roadmap and capabilities, experience in design, development or implementation of ETRMs
- UK energy market settlements, codes and market dynamics
- Trading analysis, performance assessment and trading strategy development
- Trading quantitative strategy development
- Leadership experience managing teams both from a project delivery and personal development perspective
- Strong consulting experience with excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
Set yourself apart:
- Personable, with the ability to communicate with excellence
- Creative and innovative thinking, demonstrating capability in solving complex problems with a non-traditional approach
- Proven track record in drive transformation and performance improvement with major power traders
What’s in it for you
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
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Locations
Edinburgh, London, Manchester
