Experience

Eclipse Power Networks

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Regulation, Risk and Compliance

  • Nov 2022 - Present

• Head of Regulation and Compliance

  • Oct 2020 - Nov 2022

  Ensuring the business and all our activities are compliant with all applicable regulations, legislative policies and industry codes.



Centrica

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Code, Registers and Training Manager, Ethics and Compliance Operations

  • Feb 2017 - Sep 2019

  I am directly responsible for managing the design, development and launch of Centrica’s Our Code and new Conflicts of Interests and Gifts & Hospitality registers. This involves co-ordinating with a wide-range of internal stakeholders to ensure the design and related documentation are appropriate for all areas and countries. I am also responsible for managing compliance, reporting and input into executive committee papers in relation to my areas of responsibility. I also manage input into the QPR dashboards that are produced for the BUs and Functions across the company.Current critical areas include:• Liaising with internal Subject Matter Experts (SME) to agree core content and additional elements relevant to their areas. Designing the Our Code global intranet pages across all 27 areas of Our Code, agreeing this content with the SMEs.• Investigating and understanding the limitations of Workday data to ensure reporting of training completions was accurate across the group. Ensuring that Centrica achieved 95% training compliance within the set timescales. Worked with the L&D team to create a manual training course for those unable to access Workday.• Utilised Power Apps to create the first global system (Centrica’s Interests Register) to be created using this technology – worked with internal developers in Leicester, and DTS to ensure this application overcame all the issues raised as a result of the new technology and successfully launched in the desired timescales.• Moving the reporting from Excel to Power BI to improve reporting timescales and provide the additional details necessary for all BUs and Functions to better understand the information provided. This also enables the E&C team to combine myriad data across sources to build ethical profiles of these BUs and Functions, to determine where future attention/training should be directed. Show less

• Regulatory Affairs Manager

  • Oct 2010 - Feb 2017

  Leading the development and evolution of the energy market to become smart and flexible (BEIS/Ofgem Call for Evidence), involving cross Centrica departments – information workshops, liaison with specific departments, collation and processing information to form overall Centrica positions, discussion and agreement with internal stakeholders, sign off and submission of response. On-going market changes and actions that increase balancing and services charges (Company share £100m) and imbalance costs, this has included the on-going development of a Centrica forecasting model that predicts BSUoS charges for the Centrica group, it is also necessary to assess and update the model due to National Grid actions and invoicing of charges (Black Start contract costs £130m). Managing the EU reform of the Emission Trading Scheme (from 2021), including managing internal discussions to develop Centrica’s position, liaison with our Brussels office to prepare lobbying papers and briefing notes (including for CEO), to ensure that our views are voiced consistently and regularly at every opportunity. Show less

• Commercial Manager, Power & Emissions

  • Jan 2006 - Jan 2011

  •Responsible for developing key contacts with policy makers within Government to ensure appropriate influence in policy direction. •Extraction of salient issues of EU and Government Policy and their interaction and ensure the implications to the business are both recognised and acted upon.•Responsible for summarising and communicating issues within consultation documents to the relevant departments within Centrica and ensuring appropriate responses to fully reflect and influence Centrica’s position and preferred solutions. •Responsible for representing Centrica in industry wide groups on Emissions Trading.•Liaison with Government and Treasury on development of EU ETS within UK. Show less

• Gas & Power Charging Manager

  • May 2001 - Dec 2005

  •Centrica lead for consultations on National Grid’s price control and incentive scheme.•Responsible for representing Centrica’s interests at industry wide forums.•Responsible for improving Centrica’s position within the charging arena, especially in relation to corresponding impacts on our competitors.•Sole antagonist in negotiating a veto of a change request to modify the power generation/demand charging split resulting in a benefit to Centrica of over £22m pa.•Part of the team undertaking due diligence for new power station acquisitions. Show less

• Regulatory Issues Manager

  • Jan 1999 - May 2001

  •Provided expert analysis and strategic advice for the development of policies and fulfilment of business plans and objectives.•Worked in collaboration with Marketing to develop energy efficiency schemes to deliver energy efficiency obligations under the EEC.•Negotiated with Ofgem and Energy Savings Trust to ensure a high level of energy savings to be accredited with minimum costs and data collection to Centrica.•Meetings with external legal advisors to discuss Competition Act 1998 interactions. Show less