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• Job Number: 559820, • Closing at: Nov 3 2026 - 23:55 GMT Base Location: For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office – Glasgow, Perth, Aberdeen, or Inverness. Salary: £44,000 - £65,900 + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family. Working Pattern: Permanent| Full Time | options available SSEN Transmission is experiencing significant growth driven by the need to connect considerable volumes of renewable generation onto our network to facilitate the pathway to Net Zero. Our regulation team is crucial in developing and delivering transmission infrastructure in the North of Scotland. As a Senior Analyst in the Regulation Team, you will help the wider SSEN Transmission business understand the opportunities and barriers to delivering projects, new services, and consumer outcomes by translating existing policies and regulations and identifying upcoming reforms. You will be working closely with senior stakeholders across the business to achieve these outcomes and goals. We place real value on thorough evidence and analysis to inform our decisions. It’s essential that we continually evaluate the impact of current policies and regulations and ensure that decisions about future changes are well-informed and evidence-led. This means you will need a good understanding of UK energy system policy, network regulations, and the wider net zero environment. Our Senior Analysts work across a range of policy areas including, price controls, industry reform and wider net zero policy. You will lead on developing and responding to consultations and industry working groups. You will support senior colleagues in the development and implementation of broader work packages, including the ASTI framework submissions and the enduring regulatory price controls. • Support the development of business cases and regulatory submissions, to enable the delivery of our strategic objectives., • Lead and coordinate research, analysis and policy development activities, helping to shape regulatory positions and influence outcomes in support of SSEN Transmission’s priorities., • Manage and coordinate regulatory projects, ensuring key milestones are delivered on time while working collaboratively across SSEN Transmission and the wider SSE Group., • Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Ofgem, representing the business in industry forums, responding to consultations and supporting effective engagement across the sector. In this role, you will benefit from the support and expertise of colleagues across the Regulation Team and the wider SSEN Transmission business, helping you to succeed and develop. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify complex issues, assess root causes and develop practical, evidence-based solutions., • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex regulatory and technical topics into clear, concise and compelling messages for a range of audiences., • Experience working within a regulated utility environment, supported by a degree in Economics, Business, Science, Engineering, Law, or a related discipline., • An understanding of the GB energy regulatory framework and wider energy sector, with an interest in how regulatory, political and policy developments shape the delivery of major infrastructure and investment programmes. Applications must be accompanied by a cover letter outlining why you are interested in a regulatory role at SSE. SSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers. Our investment plan will see SSE invest £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030. own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport electricity from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all – we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown power for the future and building the infrastructure needed for a cleaner electricity system to create secure power for generations to come. Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave. SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact Stephanie at / to discuss how we can support you. We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, dedicated to driving transformational change for our clients. We leverage proven technology, specialist teams, and extensive domain expertise to create robust technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. Our mission is fueled by a passion for technology as a means to solve complex business problems and achieve our clients' objectives. • The Cyber Security Analyst is responsible for cyber assurance over the IS environment and ensuring that information assets and associated technologies, applications, systems, infrastructure, and processes are adequately protected, • The Cyber Security Analyst is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and reporting cybersecurity risk to information assets and reporting associated risks, • The Cyber Security Analyst , working together with the Operational Security team, understands and articulates the impact of cyber security risks and threats to (digital) business and communicates this to Senior Manager- Global Cyber Operations or delegate, • The Cyber Security Analyst supports the Cyber Operations team in carrying out appropriate second-line assurance activities related to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as well as the safety, privacy and recovery of information owned or processed by the business in compliance with regulatory requirements, • The role works with appropriate teams and 3rd party vendors to ensure the third party related cyber risks are identified and assessed appropriately Roles and Responsibilities, • Works with Project Team, Operations and IS Security team to support IS in the delivery of secure, reliable, and safe IS operations to the business, • Work across vendors, project teams and wider IS team to define IS Security requirements for systems and solutions, • Research and provide security solutions for complex application and systems integrations, • Provides support on the full life cycle of design, development and operation of security tools and services, • Builds successful peer relationships with other IS and business functions, • Follows the formal governance mechanism to establish and monitor effective controls for the processes and functions performed by the IS Security team, • Supports IS Security achieve regulatory and statutory compliance requirements, • Complete cyber risk assessments, including third party suppliers, • Apply threat modelling principles to complex system and solution designs to identify security risks and appropriate mitigations, • Supports, monitors and recommends improvements to cyber incident management process, • Provides input and support to operational projects related to cyber security, • Experience of working in an organisation distributed across different geographies and time zones, with the ability to communicate the IS security goals (preferred), • Excellent analytical, problem solving and execution skills (essential), • Strong cyber security-specific experience, support by relevant industry certifications (e.g. CySA+, Security+) and risk management knowledge (essential), • Knowledge and experience working across a diverse range of cyber security tools, including SIEM technologies, EDR, NIDS etc. (essential), • Self-motivated with a willingness to go the extra mile to achieve important goals (essential), • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to technical and non-technical audiences (essential), • Cyber Security KPI monitoring and delivery (preferred), • Experience engaging 3rd party security specialists to provide additional assurance. (preferred), • Understanding of assessing data security and governance requirements and identifying suitable controls. (essential), • Experience of delivering cloud focused security solutions with a solid understanding of modern cyber threats and threat modelling techniques (preferred), • Good understanding of security frameworks (NIST CSF, Mitre ATT & CK) (essential) At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package: • Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth., • Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can., • A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes. At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us. If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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