Ofwat seeks senior recruits to bolster teams as it ramps up PR19 work

Ofwat is looking to recruit people to fill 25 fixed-term contracts in six different professional areas and at senior associate and principal levels. The jobs are all related to work on the next price review in 2019.

The regulator has listed the roles “broadly” as:

• finance and accounting – analysing company business plans, financial statements and forecasts, financial models, financial structures and accounting policies;

• engineering and infrastructure – assessing business plans for resilience and innovation, as well as gaining an understanding of the types of schemes needed for maintenance and new infrastructure;

• economics – applying economic techniques to ensure that monopoly companies deliver what customers want;

• information and quality assurance – managing large quantities of complex information to apply our decision making, and publish our results while developing and applying our quality assurance processes;

• strategy and policy – strategic decision-making on customers, companies, other stakeholders and the long term resilience of the sector as well as discussing business plans with companies and stakeholders, and explaining our findings.; and

• regulatory – assessing each company’s business plan and translating information provided by companies into our regulatory framework.

More details are available HERE The closing date for applications is 23 October 2017.