Commercial Lead – Data & Reporting

Max Term: 12-month opportunity

Based in Perth CBD – modern offices with flexible working arrangements

Join a high performing team and drive commercial outcomes

About Alinta Energy:
At Alinta Energy, we’re constantly striving to do better. Whether it’s lowering customers costs, providing world class local service or sustainable energy, our aim is to be better. And to keep getting better day after day. Better for our customers. Better for Australia. And better for our environment.

We’re a leading Australian utility with an owned and contracted generation portfolio of 3,000MW, over 1 million combined electricity and gas retail customers, and around 1,000 employees across Australia and New Zealand. Supplying energy in Australia for over 20 years, today we’re a vertically integrated energy company providing generation, retail and wholesale supply of gas and electricity across Australia. We support the development of renewable energy generation and offer local customer service through support hubs in Perth, Western Australia, and Morwell in Victoria.

Our Culture:
It’s an exciting time to become a part of our growing team at Alinta Energy. Our people are our greatest asset and we’re committed to a culture that’s focussed on being better at providing great service externally and internally. An organisation where people truly matter. That’s better.

About the role:
We are looking for an experienced commercial data and reporting professional to join our team for 12-months to provide cover for maternity leave. This role will be reporting to the Retail Commercial Manager.

This role requires you to utilise your technical data capabilities to deliver insights which influence and drive commercial results for the retail business. You will be required to connect to, query, extract, validate, analyse, and report on complex data sets, while also being responsible for monitoring business controls and assurance processes.

Duties:
Extract and analyse data from various systems and warehouses, using the most effective tools and techniques, to convert into actionable insights for the business.

Lead commercial data matters, providing expertise to advice, inform and influence decision making.

Manage a control reporting framework to ensure operational systems utilised by the business are functioning both efficiently and accurately.

Utilise commercial acumen to identify opportunities for the business to reduce cost, increase revenue, and or reduce risk.

Manage the team’s business as usual activities, such as tariff optimisation, and participate in discrete commercial reviews such as contract and pricing reviews.

Skills and experience:
Ability to lead a small team, proactive, self-driven, high attention to detail and able to work autonomously.

Tertiary qualification in a Commerce, Economics, Data Analytics, Finance, Business or other relevant commercial, data or numeric related field.

Hands on experience in analytics and data tools, with a requirement to have SQL experience and Alteryx experience is desirable.

Experience in performing and leading varied commercial reviews and analysis to provide insights and influence decision making.

Experience compiling and communicating analytical results and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Experience in the Australian gas and electricity markets including the technical, commercial and operational aspects.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Commercial Lead – Data & Reporting who is looking to lead a small team in a supportive and professional environment. You will lead and mentor a junior commercial analyst who will support you to coordinate the team’s business-as-usual (BAU) initiatives. The term of the role is 12-months but there may be potential for other internal opportunities after this term for the right candidate.

One of our key values at Alinta is ‘People Matter’, so even if you don’t possess all the mentioned skills and experience, we would still encourage you to apply!

Benefits:
Hybrid working arrangements combining office-based and work from home

Staff energy discount offer (where products are available)

Generous employee referral bonus

Salary Packaging options

Wellness programs including our Employee Assistance Program and free full access to the Headspace application

Paid community volunteer leave

Access to LinkedIn learning

Discount program for a range of products and services

14 weeks of fully paid parental leave

Company paid salary continuance insurance

Ability to purchase additional leave

Modern offices with free snacks, drinks, and coffee

Let’s spread the positive energy together…

Alinta Energy is a 2023 Circle Back Initiative employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

Please note that if your application progresses you will be required to complete background/pre-employment checks. These checks may include but are not limited to – right to work/immigration checks, reference checks, criminal background checks, qualification checks and additional finance checks for finance related positions.

How to apply:
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