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Closing Date
2025-07-25
Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Location: Falmer or Durrington/hybrid
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37, Monday to Friday
Salary: circa £65,000 dependent on experience
There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!
Job Overview
As Finance Business Partner you will work alongside a specific business area, supporting and advising on their strategic and operational decision making through value adding insights that drive better business performance. You will perform complex financial analysis to interpret, explain and drive performance within a business unit, in a dynamic industry, competitive and economic context.
* Responsibility for the budget and in-year forecast processes for opex & capex, providing guidance on key planning assumptions, efficiencies, risks and opportunities, achieving maximum cost efficiency through constructive challenge.
* Driving improved financial and KPI reporting outputs, delivering accuracy & consistency of reporting output across the Directorate.
* Providing financial insight & governance across multiple projects / work programs; assessing status, circumstances and recommending appropriate course of action to efficiently deliver project objectives.
* Fostering close relationship with corporate teams to ensure appropriate financial structures and governance are established and rigorously followed.
* Driving improvements in forecasting techniques to enhance financial accuracy and ensure compliance with government, regulatory and customer requirements.
About You
As Finance Business Partner to the Clean Rivers & Seas or Wastewater Networks team, you will perform complex financial analyses including trend analysis, financial modelling, provide cost visibility and ownership. You will report on key performance indicators to drive cost reductions across the business, thereby identifying risks, errors, problems, and improvement opportunities.
* Ideally a qualified Accountant (or qualified by experience) with experience of working in a commercial business partnering role in a fast-paced organisation.
* Strong finance capabilities including commercial finance, FP&A, accounting, governance & controls.
* Excellent communicator, comfortable communicating with & providing proactive financial leadership to non-finance professionals.
* Sound business acumen; able to demonstrate commercial and operational understanding, accompanied by strong relationship-building, influencing & judgement.
* Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and adapting to a changing operational environment.
* Excellent analytical skills.
* Expert user of core Microsoft Office applications.
* Knowledge of MS Power BI or a willingness to learn.
Package
Benefits
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Falmer or Durrington office and home. We are offering a salary of circa £65,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:
* Company and performance-related bonus
* Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
* Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
* Health benefits through a Cash Plan
* Two paid community volunteering days a year
* 25 days annual holiday
* Occupational health service
* Stars Reward gateway offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
* We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Join our Finance team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
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