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About your team:
At Centrica Business Solutions, we’re proud to partner with over 7,000 organisations globally – helping them to balance planet, with profit. We build, operate and maintain onsite, large-scale energy assets like Solar PV and Combined Heat and Power – to help businesses to save the planet and save money. We’re also transforming the UK’s energy landscape by partnering with landowners and developers to build a 900MW portfolio of new grid-scale solar farms and battery storage assets.
The role of Business Finance Partner, Centrica Business Solutions (CBS) UK&I focuses on providing support to the Business Finance Director to create value by improving the quality of decisions and ensuring that a chosen business strategy delivers the highest financial benefit at an acceptable level of risk.
They will represent Finance in the CBS UK&I Leadership Team, take a leading role in holding the business to account for it’s financial targets, pushing business performance and partnering with the business to provide high quality financial planning and analysis. In addition they will lead the partnering with the sales & commercial teams in analysing pre-sale opportunities and ensuring the right commercial and financial decisions are taken by the UK&I Leadership Team.
They will also sponsor the embedding, monitoring and ongoing improvement of control frameworks within the business.
Accountabilities
General
- Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in CBS UK&I business and across NBNZ Finance teams
- Act as the key interface with the UK&I Services business to understand the key drivers of revenue, gross margin, opex and capex, to be able to translate complex commercial issues into financial impacts
- Support the business development and commercial teams in reviewing new contract opportunities and understanding whether the financial return correlates with the level of risk associated with the opportunity
- Support the wider UK&I Finance team and business by providing robust, insight and analysis to drive improvements in financial performance
- Lead communications with the UK&I Financial Controller and supporting team, ensuring they have a good understanding of business performance and key judgment areas for month end close.
- Oversee production of the standard monthly finance deliverables (including performance packs, KPIs) to the agreed format, timeline and quality, supported by clear and focused messaging
- Line manages 2 direct reports and supports their areas of focus across the lifecycle of CBS opportunities - from pre-sales, through construction delivery and into long term operations of contracts
- Support risk management activities to ensure the relevant controls are in place throughout the lifecycle of a project opportunity. Act as part of the first line of defence in the identification and management of risks
Plan & Monitor the Business
- Regularly report performance against Group Annual Plan & latest forecast, delivering strong insights and supporting business review of financial and operational (value driver) variances to identify corrective actions
- Support delivery of an accurate, efficient and transparent plan/forecast which meets Finance and business stakeholder requirements
- Develop bespoke reporting and monitoring tools in line with evolving business requirements
Provide Decision Support
- Carry out non-standard / bespoke analysis to support business decision making
- Identify performance improvement interventions and design means of implementing associated changes. Facilitate relevant parts of the business to implement changes
- Prepare and analyse investment opportunities and business cases, demonstrating strong financial rigour, commercial acumen, and risk assessment
Experience
- Fully qualified accountant from a recognised body (ACA, ACCA, ICAS, CIMA)
- Proficient in Microsoft office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI
- Previous commercial finance experience in a large organisation including:
- Communication of analysis and insight across the business
- Building financial models, creating robust forecasts and budgets
- Track record of process improvement
- Experience in decision support and investment appraisal
- Understanding of the UK energy sector preferred, but not essential
- Previous experience of working in a construction and engineering environment preferred, but not essential
Location
- Manchester or Windsor, with ability to travel to Centrica’s offices as required
Why should you apply?
We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you.
http://www.morethanacareer.energy/cbs
If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.
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What We Do
Centrica is a leading energy services and solutions provider founded on a 200-year heritage of serving people. We are the UK’s biggest retailer of zero carbon electricity, serving around 10 million customers across the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe through brands such as British Gas, supported by around 9,000 highly trained engineers and technicians. Centrica’s purpose of helping you live sustainably, simply and affordably drives our strategy and our People and Planet Plan.
