Bob Barnes Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Flexible

Won several contracts for financial modelling in the energy sector, notably many years of repeat business with EON’s Community Energy business, which I helped to become market leader in District Heating. Other clients include Bristol Energy and Earthworm Capital.Developed and implemented robust financial models and investment proposals for short- and long-term heat, electricity and cooling service contracts. Plus their integration with battery and thermal storage and electric vehicle charging.Created conceptual and detailed financial models for generation plant including wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass.Provided accurate and meaningful data to operations team to help prioritise workloads: reduced operational costs by 5%.Saved £millions of potential energy costs by identifying and mitigating risks of system heat losses.Used statistical analysis to investigate and draw patterns from hourly electricity and heat demand data for thousands of customers, which reduced cost to serve by £3/customer and demand risk by 10%.Evaluated statistical risk by using Palisade’s @Risk Monte Carlo Simulation software; this ensured that risks were understood and quantified, giving the client a more competitive bid offer and allowing the contractual negotiations to focus on key areas, saving £20k/contract on legal fees and £200k contract risk.Delivered effective training to business development managers to increase efficiency on commercial aspects and improved contract negotiations with clients and funders.Comfortably worked with designers, engineers and operational staff to ensure all financial models are deeply embedded in reality which reduced assumption and communication risks.Conducted detailed technology appraisals to ensure optimum performance and commercial viability.Analysed competing bids for generation plant construction and maintenance contracts.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

I offered strategic financial advice to business leaders through performing detailed evaluations, analysis and reporting to drive commercial performance of a start up business in the district heating industry. I reviewed existing financial processes, introduced new models to enhance business dealings and wrote feasibility studies with commercial and technical approval and buy-in. I scrutinised costs and set prices for district heating projects whilst preparing budgets and supporting auditing. Most notably, I played a pivotal role in developing and enhancing the commercial and technical understanding of sales and marketing teams, and developed and introduced products and customer service proposals to drive service excellence.

Derby, United Kingdom

Maintained the forecasting model of the cash flow and income statement on this £3.5bn project.Calculated the risks posed by the contracts, and recommended where to focus limited resource.

Fmva, Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst Certification, Pass

World Class Financial Modelling

Accounting And Business/Management

Masters, Maths

Included an integral year at Texas A&M University, USA. Modules included: maths, oceanography, statistics, computer modelling, business.

Masters, Mathematics, 2:1

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