Transpower New Zealand Looking for Pricing Specialist at Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand Full Time

• Provide advice and numerical analysis to internal and external customers
• Operate the transmission pricing system and use your excel modelling skills
• Join a supportive team with stimulating, meaningful work

Are you an intellectually curious analyst with experience in complex pricing, or producing business critical information that is relied upon?

As New Zealand’s only transmission company, Transpower’s role as a State-Owned Enterprise is to build, operate, and maintain the National Grid. At the heart of the electricity sector, we have a unique and critical role, including helping to enable and accelerate a net carbon zero future.

Transpower resolves annual transmission charges each year in accordance with the Transmission Pricing Methodology (TPM), which is a schedule of the Electricity Industry Participation Code and is governed by the Electricity Authority.  Because our transmission network is a natural monopoly, our investments in grid assets and allowable revenue are regulated by the Commerce Commission. 

About The Team

As the demand for electricity continues to grow to meet climate change and sustainability goals, so too does the demand for the critical infrastructure and Transmission services to enable this change.

The Pricing team is a small, supportive group of experts who operate and administer the grid pricing function that determines how Transpower’s costs as owner and operator of the Grid (:$1B pa) are recovered from our direct customers.

The team must equally consider the interests of all our customers.  This places a heavy reliance on consistency and precedent (as opposed to unregulated pricing that is much more flexible).  The team is an internal gatekeeper for ensuring Transpower is kept whole (as a cost recovery business), and pricing outcomes are consistent with the guiderails of regulation. 

Ultimately, our work supports Transpower to be a successful and commercially orientated business that works with the best long-term interests of New Zealand. 

The opportunity

Based in our Waikoukou Head Office to support knowledge transfer, you will support delivery of Transpower’s pricing obligations, and help customers understand the pricing implications of new connections to the grid.

You will provide evidence-based recommendations, and in time, pricing thought leadership to ensure Transpower sustains its social license to operate as a regulated monopoly business.  You will:

• ensure annual transmission charges are prepared to a high standard, with minimal auditor-identified errors or changes.
• provide high-quality analysis, with strong attention to detail and problem-solving aptitude. You will seek to understand the “why” behind the numbers and follow your intuition to explore and explain any anomalies.
• develop and operate high standard commercial investment models or calculations for internal consumption that are easy to follow. 
• help to foster a better understanding of what “good” looks like in a commercial and regulatory context throughout the business.

What will you bring?

Energy, curiosity, outstanding organisational skills, and an ability to learn quickly.  You will have a passion for numbers and be known as a problem solver who is delivery focused, calm, and positive.

Your CV and cover letter will demonstrate:

• Good understanding of commercial principles, including proven attention to detail when producing high-quality modelling, analysis, and data distillation.
• Ability to use excel at intermediate/advanced level, including pivot tables.
• Confident, clear written and verbal communication and relationship management skills to articulate complex subject matter and build understanding.
• You can operate and think strategically, being cognisant of detailed rules and regulatory and policy settings.
• While not essential – a relevant tertiary qualification in Economics, Mathematics, or Engineering is helpful, as is the ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders in a principled way that is cognisant of the intent of regulation and strategic priorities.

Why work for Transpower

An equal opportunity employer, we value the diversity of thought and knowledge sharing that comes from our people from over 28 nationalities – we learn from each other. In addition to working as part of a super team, we support your health and wellness with a range of employee benefits https://www.transpower.co.nz/about-us/careers/benefits and on the job learning, project, and secondment opportunities over time.

If an opportunity to understand the regulatory environment we operate within, and how our revenue is allocated among customers while working across projects that always throw out a few curve balls, appeals to you, please review the position description available via our career’s website https://www.transpower.co.nz/about-us/careers and apply without delay.

Role closes Tuesday 30th January however where possible, applications will be reviewed as they are received, and informal exploratory conversations may take place prior to the close date.

While reasonable consideration will be given to your personal circumstances, candidates must have existing full eligibility to work in New Zealand.