Regulatory Analyst

Gas Networks Ireland operates and maintains Ireland’s €3bn, 14,725km national gas network, which is considered one of the safest and most modern renewables-ready gas networks in the world.

Almost 725,000 Irish homes and businesses trust Ireland’s gas network to provide efficient and reliable energy to meet their heating, cooking, manufacturing and transport needs.

The gas network is the cornerstone of Ireland’s energy system, securely supplying more than 30% of Ireland’s total energy, including 40% of all heating and almost 50% of the country’s electricity generation.

Gas Networks Ireland is aiming to deliver a repurposed, resized and fully decarbonised gas network by 2045. Its “Pathway to a Net Zero Carbon Network” envisions transforming the existing gas network into two separate systems carrying 100% renewable gas, one dedicated to biomethane and the other to green hydrogen, with the potential to carry approximately 30% biomethane and 70% green hydrogen, as well as offering significant long term energy export opportunities.

The Role:

The Regulatory Analyst is a supporting role to the Regulatory & Efficiency Lead assisting in the delivery the relevant Price Controls lookback process and future submissions and the Business Partnering & Planning Teams with efficiency, month end reporting and budget processes.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Regulatory:

• Assist the Regulatory & Efficiency Manager in coordinating PC5/6 finance consolidation, processes, performance metrics and outputs.
• Responsible for the management of the PC5/6 Regulatory financial model.
• Responsible, along with the Business Partners & wider finance Teams, for the roll out, updating and tracking of opex allowances across GNI.
• As the regulatory subject matter expert on GNI overall regulatory opex, responsible for internal management and external reporting to track both PC5 performance vs allowances, PC6 planning & performance and CRU enhanced annual reporting requirements.
• Assist in delivering submissions to the Economic Regulator in collaboration with the Business Planning and Partnering Teams.
• Generate high quality templates to capture projected and actual expenditure subject to allowances.

Business Partnering and Planning:

• Support with the delivery of the efficiency agenda within the business, provide guidance to cost centre managers and Business Partners on the identification, and tracking and reporting of efficiencies.
• Ensuring that a clear process of identification, verification and recognition is applied in the reporting of opex and capex efficiencies across the GNI business.
• Responsible for the consolidation of the efficiency monthly reports and information for the quarterly Steering meetings.
• Supporting the Business Partners to ensure that efficiencies are appropriately documented and challenged and verified prior to being recognised.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with Business Unit Managers and the Finance Team by providing value add financial insights and advice.
• Support the GNI Business Partnering team in the coordination and delivery of monthly reports, both the annual budget and quarterly forecast processes, labour capitalisation analysis, and monitoring performance of results against the same.
• Support the annual budget cost centre packs process, delivering improvements and efficiencies to the process year on year.
• Perform other duties as required from time to time.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Relevant third level degree and at least 2-3 years relevant experience.
• A recognised accounting qualification (ACA; ACMA; ACCA) or equivalent.
• Financial planning and business partnering experience desirable but not essential in areas such as the development of annual budgets, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Strong Excel experience.  Knowledge of models and data analytics tools an advantage.
• Capable of working on own initiative and also part of a team.
• Proven ability to create and develop good working relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals, coupled with the ability to gain commitment from others
• Excellent analytical skills and be able to identify and analyse problems and potential

improvements, and propose and implement solutions.

• Experience with identifying improvement opportunities, generating ideas and implementing solutions.
• Ability to set up ongoing procedures to collect and review information as needed.
• Proactively identifying new areas of learning and using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job.
• Ability to set own high standards of performance and delivering desired results.

Applications, including current Curriculum Vitae, should be emailed to the following address stating the job title and reference number in the subject line of your email: recruit@gasnetworks.ie

The closing date for receipt of applications for this vacancy is the 5^th of March 2025.

Please note that applications submitted after this closing date will not be accepted.

Gas Networks Ireland is an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place of work and have a robust strategy and framework called ibelong to enable this. We are an equal opportunity employer and through our recruitment process we welcome and encourage applications from interested and suitably qualified individuals regardless of gender, age, racial or ethnic origin, membership of the traveler community, religion or beliefs, family or civil status, sexual orientation/gender identity or disability.

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