Associate Director of Commercial Finance

<h1>Associate Director of Commercial Finance</h1><p><strong>Application Deadline: </strong> 7 November 2025</p><p><strong>Department: </strong>Commercial &amp; Regulation</p><p><strong>Employment Type: </strong>Permanent - Full Time</p><p><strong>Location: </strong>EP Dublin Energy</p><p><strong>Reporting To: </strong>Director of Commercial Finance (All-Island)</p><br/><h3>Description</h3>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.<br/><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3>Reporting to the Director of Commercial Finance (All-Island), the key duties and responsibilities will be:<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><br/><h3>Skills, Knowledge and Expertise</h3><strong>Background</strong><ul> <li>Experience of managing and prioritising multiple competing demands on time.</li> <li>Experience of Commercial evaluation and negotiations eg, Procurement, Acquisitions and due diligence and Contractual disputes.</li> <li>Experience of litigation management.</li> <li>Able to employ complex analytical tools and statistics to performance analysis and forecasting of financial and other business information.</li> <li>Knowledge of investment analysis.</li> <li>Knowledge of process improvement and change management activities.</li> <li>Knowledge of the ISEM market and trading would be an advantage.</li> </ul><strong>Behaviours</strong><ul> <li>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.</li> <li>Self-starter with exceptional organisational and project management/co-ordination skills