84. Interim Senior Financial Analyst

Centrica plc has operations in UK, North America, Africa and Europe. Centrica's vision is to become a leading integrated supplier of energy and related services for its chosen markets and maximise value to shareholders. As a leader in the UK energy market, Centrica supplies energy to residential and business customers under the British Gas brand. To meet these demands Centrica Energy is the division responsible for securing the necessary supplies through procurement, power generation, exploration and production of our energy products.

British Gas Residential is the UK's leading gas and power supplier with 15+ million customer and projected revenue of circa £8Bn in 2008. As part of our strategy to transform British Gas we are seeking additional resources within our Margins Team some of which is transferring from our Midstream business to our Downstream business.

The Margin Forecasting Team are responsible for forecasting revenues and cost of sales for all 15M customers, explaining variances to those forecasts and ensuring robust systems and processes are in place to enable the accurate forecast to be created. Within the cost of sales, commodity cost is the most significant element, with power commodity costs in the region of £1.5Bn per annum. Thus the calculation and forecasting for power commodity costs is a highly critical role and complex in nature.

As we Transform British Gas we are moving this margin responsibility from Centrica Energy to BGR. Due to all the changes in our business and our industry we require a new forecasting model to be built by this Interim Senior Financial Analyst. This is an in-depth exercise which is critical to the success of this transformation taking the lessons learnt for 2008 and developing more accurate and robust models for BGR.