Closing Date
2025-09-26
Job Title: Finance Business Partner - Operational Capex
Location: Worthing or Falmer (Brighton)
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (9 Months)
Hours: 37/ week (full time)
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 DOE
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!
(Please note: we are unable to offer sponsorship on this role)
Job Overview
As Finance Business Partner you be supporting and advising stakeholders on 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.
Your complex financial analyses will include trend analysis, financial modelling, and providing cost visibility & ownership. You will report on key performance indicators to drive costs reductions across the business, thereby identifying risks, errors, problems, and improvement opportunities.
Day to day your will:
1. Collect budget, quarterly and midyear forecasts and other financial information
2. Advise on key business planning assumptions, trade-offs, and opportunities.
3. Provide sign off and approval on annual plans and forecasts
4. Provide financial governance and management of change initiatives
5. Provide budget assistance to multiple projects or large programs; assess circumstances and recommend appropriate course of action
6. Develop financial controls and forecasting techniques to evaluate contract/program status and ensure compliance with government and customer requirements
7. Forecast accurate and timely cash flow projections, sales projections, budget projections, and expense projections to ensure that business needs are met.
About You
You will either be a qualified Accountant or qualified by experience and will be comfortable communicating with non-finance stakeholders. You will ideally have experience in a similar role and be used to coping with challenging projects, adapting to changing environments, under high pressure, with short timings and in full autonomy. You will have strong business acumen and be able to demonstrate strong leadership skills, in particular relationship-building, ability to influence and judgement.
Essential requirements:
8. Experience working as a Finance Business Partner or Management Accountant
9. Proven track record of working closely with a variety of stakeholders
10. Strong communication skills with the ability to build rapport and influence decision making
11. Accountancy qualifications or strong related experience
12. Strong finance capabilities across many functions, including commercial finance, FP&A, and accounting & controls
13. Ability to deal with ambiguity and drive multi-functional outcomes
14. Strong strategic and analytical skills
Desirable:
15. Knowledge of MS Power BI
16. An understanding of regulations and governance surrounding Capital Expenditure
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday (compressed hours will be considered on a case by case basis) with a hybrid approach to working between either our Durrington (Worthing) or Falmer (Brighton) office and home, the team expect 2 days in the office, on either a Monday/ Tuesday/ Wednesday.
This is a Fixed Term Contract for 9 months.
We are offering a salary of up to £65,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:
• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance equal to 4x salary
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
• Health Cash Plan
• Full funded eye tests
• Two paid volunteering days a year
• Occupational health service
• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
• Digital GP service
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
• Cycle to work scheme
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?
If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)
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