Energy Settlements Manager

E1 Partners is partnering with a growing energy business seeking an experienced Settlements Manager to lead performance across the end-to-end gas or electricity settlements journey.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an established settlements leader who thrives on driving operational excellence, improving data quality, and leading high-performing teams within the UK energy market.

You’ll take ownership of day‑to‑day settlement performance, ensuring delivery against both industry and internal targets, from acquisition right through to final settlement.

• Maintaining accurate reporting and dashboards, using data to identify root causes, trends, and improvement opportunities
• Driving high standards across the full settlement lifecycle
• Leading and developing your team — setting objectives, coaching performance, and preparing for industry change and portfolio growth
• Building strong relationships across Billing, Customer Operations, Sales, and the wider business
• Driving gas transfer read acceptance and resolving disputes and exceptions proactively
• Partnering with Finance to understand settlement variances, financial impacts, risks, and mitigations
• Improving processes and controls to achieve right‑first‑time settlement and reduce manual rework
• Acting as an escalation point for complex settlement issues and coordinating cross‑functional resolution

• Proven experience leading a gas or electricity settlements, metering, or billing team within the UK energy market
• Strong understanding of settlement processes and operational drivers of settlement quality
• Ability to translate operational activity into financial impact and risk
• Track record of continuous improvement and process optimisation
• Confident and engaging people leader who builds ownership and accountability
• Strong stakeholder management skills across internal teams and third parties
• Analytical mindset with strong Excel skills and experience handling large datasets
• Experience working with or improving settlement, billing, or data platforms is desirable