<div>An opportunity has arisen to recruit an Associate Director of Commercial Finance, based in our Dublin offices.<br /><br />The successful candidate will have responsibility for co-ordinating a number of strategic programmes across the All-Island marker, and will liaise between various departments across the business to ensure commercial outcomes are achieved.</div> <h2> Key Responsibilities </h2> <div>Reporting to the Director of Commercial Finance (All-Island), the key duties and responsibilities will be:</div><ul><li>Identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance revenue, efficiency, and long-term productivity across the business, delivering tangible commercial value.</li><li>Overseeing key commercial risks, including revenue and cost hedging strategies, ensuring robust mitigation measures are in place.</li><li>Delivering insightful financial and operational KPIs to support asset performance and meet group reporting standards.</li><li>Assisting the GB team in evaluating capital investments and business development opportunities, ensuring commercial viability and risk mitigation during business establishment phases.</li><li>Designing and negotiating new contractual arrangements to optimize commercial outcomes and manage risk, whilst overseeing contractor litigation and developing mitigation strategies for existing agreements.</li><li>Fostering collaboration across the organization to identify future commercial opportunities, streamline processes, and share best practices across the Group.</li><li>Ensuring that regulatory updates and changes are assessed based on the commercial impact on the business and align regulatory strategy to optimise commercial outcomes.</li><li>Leading business planning activities across the All-Island operations, aligning strategic goals with operational execution.</li><li>Promoting economically sound decision-making through robust economic analysis and high-quality management information, supporting investment, procurement, and operational strategies.</li><li>Providing commercial and economic insights to align business planning with maintenance and investment strategies, ensuring both short-term and long-term objectives are met.</li><li>Leveraging data analysis to enhance contractor performance, focusing on cost flexibility, maintenance efficiency, and investment planning.</li><li>Supporting the analysis of gross margin for the Island of Ireland portfolio, including market modeling of revenues (capacity, energy, ancillary) and costs (fuel, O&amp;M), to inform:  commodity and hedging strategies;  budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning;  business development initiatives;  regulatory and TSO negotiations;  commercial contract management.</li><li>Negotiating fuel and commodity agreements, including physical and financial instruments (futures, options, freight).</li><li>Providing commercial and financial guidance on the management of existing operating assets within the All-Island business.</li><li>Producing detailed reports covering market positions, key trends, hedging status, mark-to-market valuations, credit exposure, and related metrics.</li><li>Collaborating with the EPDEL trading team to evaluate and support effective trading and long-term hedging strategies, whilst ensuring all bids are aligned with policy and cost recovery requirements.</li><li>Ensuring adherence to risk management policies and procedures through regular review of commercial activities.</li><li>Contributing to the development and management of team members, fostering a high-performance culture.</li></ul> <h2> Benefits </h2> 

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Associate Director of Commercial Finance Commercial & Regulation

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