Jobs at SmartestEnergy

Own product control activities across valuation, P&L, risk, and reporting for gas and power trading businesses. Analyze financial positions, explain P&L movements, assess risk, support new products and markets, and provide actionable recommendations to stakeholders. Build and test models while automating and improving processes using Excel, VBA, SQL, Python, Power BI, and related systems. This fixed-term role requires strong financial product knowledge, analytical judgment, and the ability to influence business outcomes.

Leads enterprise-wide transformation governance across a global energy organization. Establishes governance frameworks, decision rights, stage gates, assurance, risk and controls, investment oversight, benefits realization, and portfolio visibility. Partners with senior executives across Finance, Technology, Risk, Legal, and Operations to improve delivery predictability and transformation maturity. Uses PPM platforms, governance data, and Power BI to support data-driven investment and delivery decisions.

Leads enterprise process excellence and business change, managing process owners and change professionals. Establishes governance, continuous improvement, process optimization, KPIs, benefits realization, and change adoption practices using Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, and structured change methodologies. Partners with senior business, transformation, and IT stakeholders to deliver scalable, measurable, and sustainable transformation outcomes.

Leads a complex, multi-year transformation programme spanning people, processes, data, technology, and behavioral change. Establishes and runs the Transformation Management Office, builds delivery teams, creates governance and performance frameworks, manages executive stakeholders, and ensures delivery within scope, budget, and timelines. Oversees benefits tracking, value realization, and coordination across functions and delivery partners.

Develop and manage strategic partnerships with Third Party Intermediaries, identify new business opportunities, promote energy products and services, negotiate commercial agreements, build senior stakeholder relationships, and deliver profitable growth. The role requires strong knowledge of the UK energy market, energy products, wholesale risk management, solution-based sales, contract management, and CRM systems.

Lead the Group’s technical accounting function, providing authoritative guidance on complex transactions, acquisitions, financial instruments, fair value accounting, and evolving IFRS standards. Partner with senior Finance leaders, commercial teams, and external auditors; prepare technical accounting policies and papers; establish consistent global accounting practices; and support scalable processes, strong controls, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Provides day-to-day technical and functional support for business-critical applications, owning issues through resolution and coordinating with stakeholders, application owners, and third-party partners. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, system enhancements, upgrades, testing, documentation, audits, performance analysis, service desk metrics, user training, and implementation support. The role requires substantial IT support experience, ITIL knowledge, and Gorilla package experience in a collaborative hybrid environment.

Own derivative accounting, valuation, reconciliations, and financial reporting for financial hedges, PPAs, and intercompany power contracts. Develop and support the Group’s hedge accounting framework, including hedge designation, documentation, effectiveness testing, OCI accounting, fair value measurement, and financial instrument disclosures under IFRS 9, IFRS 13, and IFRS 7. Collaborate with Finance, Risk, Trading, and Front Office teams in a global energy environment.

Lead medium to large-scale business and IT change projects from planning through operational handover. Manage timelines, budgets, governance, risks, resources, vendors, stakeholders, and change while ensuring quality delivery. Develop business cases, assess feasibility, maintain project controls and reporting, and support strategic objectives. Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to project teams while driving operational improvements across the organization.