Finance Business Partner UK&I

Manchester / Stockport / Windsor / Flex First

Overview

At Centrica Business Solutions (CBS) we provide integrated energy solutions that deliver cost efficiency, resilience and accelerate our customers’ journeys to a low carbon future. We serve business and public sector organisations, increasingly focusing on delivering decarbonisation of power, heating and transport through our portfolio of solutions.

The role of Business Finance Partner, UK&I Services focuses on providing support to the Services Business Finance Director, Centrica Business Solutions 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.

You will take a leading role in ensuring the provision of robust financial planning and analysis to the UK&I business, as well as working with the business development team in analysing pre-sale opportunities and ensuring the right commercial and financial decisions are taken by the UK&I Leadership Team.

You will also champion the embedding, monitoring and ongoing improvement of control frameworks within the business.

You can be based at Manchester, Windsor / Flex First Hybrid but with ability to travel to Centrica’s offices as required.

The Role

In your new role as you will have some of the following accountabilities:

General

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in UK&I Services and across Finance.
• Act as a 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.
• 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.

The Person

To be considered for this role we would like you to have some of the following 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.
• 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.

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!