Associate Director of Commercial Finance - Dublin, County Dublin - EP UK Investments

Description

An opportunity has arisen to recruit an Associate Director of Commercial Finance, based in our Dublin offices.

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.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director of Commercial Finance (All-Island), the key duties and responsibilities will be:

• Identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance revenue, efficiency, and long-term productivity across the business, delivering tangible commercial value.
• Overseeing key commercial risks, including revenue and cost hedging strategies, ensuring robust mitigation measures are in place.
• Delivering insightful financial and operational KPIs to support asset performance and meet group reporting standards.
• Assisting the GB team in evaluating capital investments and business development opportunities, ensuring commercial viability and risk mitigation during business establishment phases.
• Designing and negotiating new contractual arrangements to optimize commercial outcomes and manage risk, whilst overseeing contractor litigation and developing mitigation strategies for existing agreements.
• Fostering collaboration across the organization to identify future commercial opportunities, streamline processes, and share best practices across the Group.
• Ensuring that regulatory updates and changes are assessed based on the commercial impact on the business and align regulatory strategy to optimise commercial outcomes.
• Leading business planning activities across the All-Island operations, aligning strategic goals with operational execution.
• Promoting economically sound decision-making through robust economic analysis and high-quality management information, supporting investment, procurement, and operational strategies.
• Providing commercial and economic insights to align business planning with maintenance and investment strategies, ensuring both short-term and long-term objectives are met.
• Leveraging data analysis to enhance contractor performance, focusing on cost flexibility, maintenance efficiency, and investment planning.
• Supporting the analysis of gross margin for the Island of Ireland portfolio, including market modeling of revenues (capacity, energy, ancillary) and costs (fuel, O&M), to inform: commodity and hedging strategies; budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning; business development initiatives; regulatory and TSO negotiations; commercial contract management.
• Negotiating fuel and commodity agreements, including physical and financial instruments (futures, options, freight).
• Providing commercial and financial guidance on the management of existing operating assets within the All-Island business.
• Producing detailed reports covering market positions, key trends, hedging status, mark-to-market valuations, credit exposure, and related metrics.
• 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.
• Ensuring adherence to risk management policies and procedures through regular review of commercial activities.
• Contributing to the development and management of team members, fostering a high-performance culture.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Background

• Experience of managing and prioritising multiple competing demands on time.
• Experience of Commercial evaluation and negotiations eg, Procurement, Acquisitions and due diligence and Contractual disputes.
• Experience of litigation management.
• Able to employ complex analytical tools and statistics to performance analysis and forecasting of financial and other business information.
• Knowledge of investment analysis.
• Knowledge of process improvement and change management activities.
• Knowledge of the ISEM market and trading would be an advantage.

Behaviours

• Excellent analytical skills, being able to digest large amounts of data (numerical and text), identifying the key issues and presenting these in a concise and clear manner to non subject matter experts.
• Self-starter with exceptional organisational and project management/co-ordination skills.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills and have the confidence to liaise with executive management teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2:1 Honours Degree in a Finance, Business, Economics or Engineering related subject.

About EP UK Investments Ltd

EPUK Investments Ltd (EPUKI) is the UK division of Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH), a leading energy group of over 70 companies that owns and operates assets across Europe. EPH group employs circa 24,000 people internationally, owns €30.5bn of assets, generating €37.1bn of revenue and an EBITDA of €4.3bn.

EPUKI was established in 2015 as the strategic platform for expanding the EPH group into the UK energy market. Since launching, EPUKI has made several acquisitions and developed a number of new opportunities and now owns multiple renewable and flexible power generating assets in the UK and Ireland.

EPUKI has grown rapidly to revenues ~£3.5bn and EBITDA ~£300m. We pride ourselves on an entrepreneurial culture and flat leadership structure where individuals (wherever they are in the organisation) can make a real impact on our business.

Our aim is to enable the UK and Ireland low carbon transition through provision of flexible and reliable energy supply. To achieve this, we will:

• develop, construct and acquire the right assets to support the transformation of the energy system;
• invest in our people and our assets to best respond to the changing needs of our sector;
• continuously challenge ourselves to identify opportunities, build our knowledge and develop innovative solutions.

EPUKI is one of the largest independent generators in the UK and Ireland, with an asset base that covers multiple technologies and a range of revenue streams; these include fully merchant baseload and peaking plant and index traded baseload plants, providing a range of system services across the energy and balancing spectrum.

Despite its significant market presence, EPUKI has a flat structure with fast paced decision-making ability enabling better optimisation of market positions. The market continues to evolve and develop as the UK and Irish governments drive towards Net Zero with increasing challenges of renewables penetration, introduction of hydrogen and other new technologies.