Principal Financial Advisor - Intelligent Oversight Regulatory Finance
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- Job grade: Grade 6
- Contract type: Permanent
- Business area: Financial Resilience and Control
- Type of role: Analytical, Finance
- Working pattern: Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
- Number of jobs available: 1
Location
Successful candidates may be based in any of our office locations – Cardiff, Glasgow, or London. We especially welcome applicants from Cardiff and Glasgow.
About the job
Job summary
Strong financial oversight is essential in the fight to protect energy consumers and secure the investment needed for Britain’s energy future. At Ofgem, we’re looking for a Principal Financial Advisor to join us and bring expert financial insight to the forefront of decisions shaping the energy sector.
Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. We’re at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers, especially vulnerable people.
We’re offering a permanent opportunity to take a leading role in transforming how we approach financial intelligence and regulatory oversight. You’ll be at the heart of an ambitious programme to modernise network regulation, bringing your expertise to an area of growing strategic importance.
You’ll join our dynamic and inclusive Regulatory Finance team, working alongside experienced financial specialists from a range of backgrounds. As part of our Reimagining Network Regulation programme, you’ll have the chance to shape a more forward-looking, agile and technology-enabled approach to regulation, with significant visibility and influence across Ofgem.
Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. We’re at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers, especially vulnerable people.
We’re offering a permanent opportunity to take a leading role in transforming how we approach financial intelligence and regulatory oversight. You’ll be at the heart of an ambitious programme to modernise network regulation, bringing your expertise to an area of growing strategic importance.
You’ll join our dynamic and inclusive Regulatory Finance team, working alongside experienced financial specialists from a range of backgrounds. As part of our Reimagining Network Regulation programme, you’ll have the chance to shape a more forward-looking, agile and technology-enabled approach to regulation, with significant visibility and influence across Ofgem.
Job description
We’re looking for someone with extensive financial reporting and analysis experience, a recognised finance qualification or equivalent relevant experience, and exceptional analytical capabilities. You’ll bring an innovative approach, strong commercial and regulatory awareness, and the confidence to communicate complex financial information and influence stakeholders at all levels.
In return, you’ll become part of a friendly, collaborative organisation that values different perspectives, encourages innovation and celebrates the diverse experiences of its people. With the opportunity to work alongside leading financial experts and bring your specialist knowledge to an ambitious programme of regulatory change, you’ll enjoy an environment where your expertise is valued, and your contribution can make a genuine difference.
We have a critical purpose to strengthen financial intelligence and oversight across the energy networks we regulate, ensuring robust decisions that protect consumers and enable essential investment. Bring your expertise to the forefront of regulatory innovation and help shape a more resilient, accountable and sustainable energy future.
In return, you’ll become part of a friendly, collaborative organisation that values different perspectives, encourages innovation and celebrates the diverse experiences of its people. With the opportunity to work alongside leading financial experts and bring your specialist knowledge to an ambitious programme of regulatory change, you’ll enjoy an environment where your expertise is valued, and your contribution can make a genuine difference.
We have a critical purpose to strengthen financial intelligence and oversight across the energy networks we regulate, ensuring robust decisions that protect consumers and enable essential investment. Bring your expertise to the forefront of regulatory innovation and help shape a more resilient, accountable and sustainable energy future.
Person specification
Essential Criteria:
- Experience in financial reporting and analysis, demonstrating use of innovative approaches, ideally gained in a regulatory or energy sector environment, or can demonstrate how your experience is transferable; (LEAD)
- Have a recognised finance qualification, eg CCAB, CFA, MSc Finance or have relevant finance or commercial experience, that can be demonstrated by proven record of high performance and substantial achievements in past positions; (LEAD)
- Demonstrate an expert ability to communicate accurate complex financial information and data that can be used for actionable financial intelligence
- Knowledge of accounting statements and interpreting financial information with expert quantitative and qualitative financial analytical skills;
- Extensive experience of building internal & external relationships at all levels; and
- Knowledge and awareness of economic regulation, ideally in the energy industry.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £63,443, OFGEM contributes
£18,379 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.
You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the role profile. In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on just the lead criteria indicated in the essential criteria.
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by [].
At Ofgem, we expect our staff to carry out their roles with honesty, fairness and openness. They should follow the Civil Service code and be free from any influence or bias. We are committed to making sure interests are recognised, declared and managed appropriately so that we can fulfil our duties as an energy regulator. Our Conflicts of Interest policy outlines the types of interests Ofgem staff must declare before onboarding, and the rules they must follow throughout employment so that we can clearly demonstrate that our decisions are not influenced by private interests.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the
Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window)
and the
Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Rob Wilkins
- Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of these Recruitment Principles.
In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website.
In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website.
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| 486244 - Principal Financial Advisor - Intelligent Oversight Regulatory Finance Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 745kB) |
| 486244 - Role Profile - Principal Financial Advisor - Intelligent Oversight Regulatory Finance Opens in new window (pdf, 148kB) |
| Terms and Conditions April 2025 Opens in new window (pdf, 335kB) |
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