Risk Analyst

Description:

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.

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.

Using your highly skilled analysis, and risk modelling expertise, you will also be responsible for the ongoing management, application, and development of the Bushfire Risk Model.

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.

• 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.