Regulatory and Commercial Analyst - Wellington Electricity
Join Wellington Electricity in this very important role. Mix regulatory expertise with financial modelling and accounting - great team to be part of!
- Generous total remuneration package
- Immediate start
- Purpose driven culture
We are looking for a commercially minded analyst with strong financial modelling capability to join our high-performing Commercial & Regulatory team.
This role sits at the intersection of finance, regulation, and strategy, helping us optimise its regulatory performance while ensuring the business meets key reporting and compliance responsibilities. It’s a unique opportunity to work inside one of Aotearoa’s most trusted lines companies at a time of growth, industry change, and major investment.
In this role, you’ll work across:
- Regulatory reporting: supporting finance and pricing compliance activities, including information disclosures and ad-hoc requests from regulators
- Regulatory performance: operating and improving financial models, analysing key inputs, and helping identify opportunities to enhance our regulatory outcomes
- Strategic pricing: contributing to the Pricing Roadmap through analysis, modelling, and reviewing regulatory consultations
- Financial modelling: evaluating investment opportunities, supporting due diligence, and maintaining our core revenue model
- Submissions & commercial insight: assisting in preparing responses to regulatory proposals and contributing commercial analysis across the business
This is a role where your analytical capability genuinely matters, your insights will influence pricing, shape submissions, support investment decisions, and contribute to how we navigate the regulatory landscape.
Who we’re looking for:
- Someone with strong financial modelling and analytical capability
- Experience from energy, utilities, infrastructure, aviation, water, or similar regulated environments
- A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Commerce, or related
- Ideally CA or equivalent, and comfortable working with complex regulatory and financial information
- Previous experience in policy, regulatory, or economic roles, ideally in the electricity, energy or infrastructure sectors where regulation is a core focus of the business.
- Curious, collaborative, detail-driven, and eager to dive into regulatory frameworks
Why Work with Us?
We are in the middle of one of the most energising organisational transformation, in respect to building further resilience in our growing network. This leads to better power supply, happy customers, and more purpose-driven work taking place! Why wouldn’t you want to join us?
Ontop of our exciting growth, we are intentionally building a culture grounded in positivity, high trust, and genuine collaboration.
Layer that with the transformation underway, a CPP investigation, significant growth, modernisation, and new office spaces and you get a business that’s not just evolving, but accelerating.
And while the work is serious, the culture isn’t stiff. Expect Friday quizzes, fantasy football league banter, coffee catchups, chair massages, and a genuine culture that celebrates people often and loudly.
We are a place where you can grow, contribute, and be part of something bigger, all while working with people who actually enjoy working with each other.
- Industry
- Energy, Oil & Gas
- Locations
- Wellington
Wellington
Why work with Paragon? 💎
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True Partnerships, we're not about transactional relationships 🤝
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Proven success recruiting in the contact-centre industry 📞
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Solutions built for your business, not others
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Upholding the businesses and your candidates privacy 🔒
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We use technology to back our processes. Therefore full transparency is assured 🖥️📱💻
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We provide guidance to your hiring managers!
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A unique cost-model, we're not just about the big fee at the end 💰
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We have over 70 years of joint expertise to find you the best and hardest to entice talent across the globe
Partnering with Paragon
As a small business we’re agile and adaptable to meet the expectations of our clients, and our candidates.
Our ethics, honesty, transparency and hands-on approach means we’re always contactable, in tune with what our candidates and clients require and provide updates and advice, along the recruitment journey.
We are inclusive, love having fun and a laugh, we're inquisitive about you as a candidate, and your business as a client, so we ask loads of questions so we can help you as best as we can!
We don’t take ourselves too seriously but take finding your next dream job, as seriously as anything!
At the same time, we are very committed to attracting the best talent for your business, and ensuring your brand speaks volumes for potential employees to join your team.
Check out the candidate journey we take our candidates on, to be their best!
About Paragon Recruitment Ltd
What is a Paragon?
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Imagine a 100-carat diamond, Invaluable. Precise. Flawless.
These are the values that drive Paragon. When it comes to recruitment, our mission is to find you that diamond in the rough.
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We take the hassle out of recruitment; Using a precise method that focuses on quality to deliver invaluable candidates for our clients.