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• Detailed analysis to capture and highlight commercial risks for large deals. Working with stakeholders to mitigate these risks and improve commercial positioning. Supporting Sales initiatives.
• Working across the business to perform profitability deep-dives into large and complex customers and detailed process investigations.
• Creation of DOA frameworks, processes and reporting. Operational management of DOA requests and working with client leads to resolve complex issues.
• Strategic Support for Fixed Sales team including on industry changes, commercial positioning and increasing available products to sell.

• Leading projects to reduce commercial risks and provide assurance to business activities.
• Working with stakeholders across the business to optimise OPEX recovery.
• Business partnering with sales managers to develop account manager and third party intermediary commission schemes and incentives
• Creating and developing processes and reporting to provide operational assurance and mitigate business risks
• Challenging business assumptions, encouraging continuous improvement and supporting change

• Development of commercial models and processes required to enable sale of energy risk management services to third parties.

• Hedging power shape for RWE npower’s retail portfolio. I was responsible for trading week-ahead, month ahead, and within front quarter.
• Market analysis to inform trading decisions.
• Commercial model development, including: assessment of UK power system margin and French power stack development. Shaping of power forward curve used for price assessments.
• Production of weekly KPI reports, and development of a new benchmark model used by the team to assess performance of day-ahead & within day trading activity.Organised and ran the 'Forecasting Challenge' intern.

• Performed monthly Network Cost forecasts to a high level of accuracy and made a number of operational process improvements.
• Developed forecasting models, including creation of the national volume forecasting model used by the team for BSUoS forecasting.
• Improved of the shaping of BSUoS cost forecasts to: inform plant dispatch decisions and improve apportionment of costs across business areas.
• Operationalised the calculation and reporting of financial risks for BSUoS, DUoS, and TNUoS.
• Produced of monthly forecast commentary and performance reporting.
• Mentored the winning team in the 'Energy Challenge' intern recruitment competition

• Implemented project prioritisation and benefits tracking methodologies for investment projects and business application development
• Forecasted investment project spend.
• Created team performance and team skills development matrix.In this role I gained an understanding of change processes, project life-cycles and industry change programmes

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Ssentif are focused on providing benchmarking and performance management solutions for a range of public sector bodies including: NHS trusts, Care Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Local Councils, and the Emergency.
• Acquisition and processing of public sector data for input into data analysis system
• Design and creation of new datasets and indicators to meet customer requirements.
• Management of data held in the SSentif system to reflect revisions in published data.This role helped me to become skilled in the use of Excel functionality to convert raw data into useful information. I also gained.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Harrogate, United Kingdom

Msci Chemistry, 2:1 (Hons)

Activities and Societies: Represented the University of Birmingham Australian Rules football team. Student spokesperson for academic.

Education record

A Levels: Chemistry, Physics, History 10 GCSE's (Grade A*-C), including: Maths (A*) English (A), Double Award Science (A*, A*)