Risk Analyst

**Risk Analyst**

Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000

**About CitiPower and Powercor**:
CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy deliver energy to 1.9 million customers located across 65% of Victoria. These customers include large numbers of households as well as commercial and industrial businesses, world class arts, health and sporting precincts, popular tourism regions and the biggest infrastructure projects in Victoria.

We provide reliable, safe, affordable, and smart energy delivery systems and our businesses are independently rated as the best in the country for their efficiency. Sustaining this is even more critical and challenging as greater electrification of homes, fleets and industries becomes a core strategy for reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change.

Increasingly, our networks are connecting new large-scale renewable energy generators and integrating technologies like solar, batteries and electric vehicles as customers change the way they generate, use, store and share power. This demand is transforming the electricity market faster than any change we've ever seen before. As a result, our people are at the frontline in developing and implementing innovative technologies and solutions necessary for the future of our industry not only in Victoria but globally.

**About the Role**:
We now have a full-time, permanent opportunity for a Risk Analyst to join our dedicated team within our Electricity Networks function. This role will report to the Network Risk and Assurance Manager, is accountable for ensuring a best practice data-based approach to quantifying and analysing the risk associated with network safety and catastrophic bushfires arising from the electrical network.

Playing a fundamental role in our business, you will help facilitate data driven insights and recommendations, to reduce the network safety and fire risk through the collection and analysis of multiple datasets.

Additionally, the role will also be responsible for delivering the ongoing activities associated with the organisation's compliance and assurance requirements associated with the Electricity Safety Act. This includes a business hours rostered role to fulfil near-real-time incident reporting to the Safety Regulator.

An extremely important role, and an amazing opportunity to work within this area of our business.

**What you will deliver**:

- Extracting, cleansing, integrating, and analysing multiple datasets to a gain deeper understanding of causality relating to network safety and fire start events
- Becoming the business Subject Matter Expert for the Bushfire Risk Model for both internal and external stakeholders
- Developing the risk model framework to become more modular, as week as Tableau reporting environment for network safety and fire performance
- Leading the rollout and training of this reporting suite whilst undertaking business improvement projects relating to network safety and bushfire risk management.

**Required skills and experience**:

- A minimum three years' experience in a similar role, including experience with Tableau, dashboard design and delivery
- Working with and migrating complex data sets from both internal and external sources
- Analysing and communicating complex data issues to a variety of stakeholders, including reporting, and business report writing
- Creative and analytical skills to assess and develop risk models
- Experience with working with large and disparate datasets
- Highly effective verbal, written and interpersonal skills as well as business, and commercial acumen
- Knowledge of electricity utility regulatory compliance issues advantageous (but not mandatory)
- Knowledge of electrical distribution safety risk and performance advantageous (but not mandatory)
- A relevant tertiary qualification in engineering / science / statistics / risk or equivalent experience

**Your career with us**:
We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive, and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued, and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we're committed to equal opportunities for all employees.

**What's next?**

If you require adjustments as part of the recruitment process to accommodate your needs, please don't hesitate to discuss these