FILLED: GRIDFEE SPECIALIST - NUON - VILVOORDE

I. ORGANISATION

Nuon Belgium N.V. was founded in 2002 at the occasion of the liberalisation of the energy markets. The company supplies gas and power to its retail and business customers and helps them to reduce their energy use. With more than 340.000 customers and 550.000 connection points, Nuon Belgium is the most important challenger on the Belgian energy supply market. The company is located in Vilvoorde and employs about 150 people.

The S&P team is also a key component in the success of our ability to source correctly, to switch and invoice our customers on a timely and accurate basis, by ensuring excellent sales portfolio data management and maintaining relations with external parties. In the liberalized Belgian energy market, different market participants exchange millions of electronic messages covering customer switching,  meter readings, consumption and allocated demand.

The Sourcing & Pricing department works in close collaboration with the Retail, Business, Regulatory, Operations and Finance departments as well as with the trading organization (i.e. our balance responsible parties and shippers).

II. FUNCTION

 Scope

The Gridfee specialist reports to the Gridfee analyst.

Gridfee (grid taxes, distribution costs, transmission costs and reactive energy), taxes and certificate surcharges are continually growing components. Today the power invoice of a retail customer is for 65% composed of the above mentioned components.

Responsibilities 

-    Gridfee (power and gas): the Gridfee specialist is responsible for the correct handling of the gridfee, both the correct charging from the Grid companies towards Nuon Belgium as from Nuon Belgium towards it’s customers. The following tasks are part of his  job responsibilities: 

• Validation of gridfee invoices (6000/year) and interaction with data departments of third party suppliers for gridfee rectifications
• Correct charging of the different gridfee components to customers
• Day-to-day gridfee settlement operations for both power and gas
• Operational follow-up of cash flow settlement of gridfee
• Internal reconciliation of gridfee costs using SAP, KPI, Quoting Engine, metering and price data
• Representation and looking after Nuon Belgium interests in the UMIX taskforce and UMIX core teams gridfee
• Definition of product specifications (calculation methodology) towards SAP for B2C and B2B products
• Market monitoring of evolutions of the grid fee
• Maintenance tariffs in different IT systems of the gridfee details  (+4000 different tariffs valid at the same time)
• Handling questions B2B customers (calculation details, forecasts, complaints,  . ..)
• Implementation market changes. Design, implementation and maintenance of  IT tools and applications.  

-      Taxes (power and gas): the Gridfee specialist is responsible for the pricing and settlement with responsible authorities and regulators. Tasks are:

• Follow up on regulatory reporting for different taxes (gas and power) towards responsible regulators
• Market monitoring of evolutions of taxes and levies
• Correct charging different taxes and applicable reductions to customers
• ODV optimization for HT customers
• Recuperating discounts Federal Contribution from CREG (+6Mio€ per year)
• Handling questions B2B customers (calculation details, forecasts, complaints,  ...)
• Implementation market changes. Design, implementation and maintenance of  IT tools and applications.

 -      Free kWh :

• Validation of the files received from the DGO's and interaction with data departments of third party suppliers for rectifications
• Prepare invoicing towards customers
• Follow up of settlement with the DGO's 

-      Powerhouse :

• Validation of the invoices with customer (commodity and gridfee)
• Validation intercompany invoices with VET 

III. PROFILE 

-      The person has an analytical background (e.g. economy, finance, IT, accounting   or engineering) and is willing to work in an operational function.

-      Minimum 3 years experience

-      Mother tongue Dutch or French, fluent in English

-      Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to liaise with people at all levels internally and externally.

-      Strong ability to remain focused whilst working under pressure.

-      Strong analytical skills and accurate whilst working with figures

-      Quick learner

-      Experience in project management and writing requirements and functional testing

-      Ability to defend in a convincing manner Nuon’s interests during external contacts

-      Ability to analyze huge amounts of data and present clearly management reports

-      Advanced knowledge Microsoft Office  (PowerPoint, Excel, Access)

-      Advanced VBA skills

-      Good knowledge SQL and database models (Oracle, SQL Server)

-      Working knowledge SAP