About The Role
The Finance Business Partner (FBP) plays a critical role in supporting senior stakeholders across the Energy business by providing high‑quality financial insight, challenge, and decision support. Acting as the primary link between Finance and the business, the role owns forecasting, performance analysis, and commercial insight for assigned business areas.
The FBP works closely with operational and commercial leaders to drive cost consciousness, value creation, and accountability, while ensuring robust financial control, accurate reporting, and effective planning processes.
Key Responsibilities
Business Partnering & Strategic Insight
1. Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders and their teams, providing both support and constructive challenge
2. Promote a culture of cost control, value enhancement, and financial accountability
3. Use a deep understanding of current and future business activity to provide insight and analysis that supports strategic decision‑making
4. Support key investment, pricing, and operational decisions through scenario and sensitivity analysis
FP&A, Planning & Performance Management
5. Lead all key financial planning and analysis activities for assigned business areas, including budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans
6. Design and deliver a suite of relevant KPIs and reporting formats that link operational and financial performance
7. Own the risks and opportunities process, ensuring key items are identified, quantified, managed, and clearly communicated in forecasts and reporting
8. Continuously improve the accuracy, relevance, and timeliness of forecasts through driver‑based approaches
Financial Performance & Month‑End Reporting
9. Ensure month‑end results accurately reflect business activity, working closely with management accountants to improve underlying processes
10. Prepare clear, commercial commentary explaining performance, key drivers, and impacts versus target
11. Prepare and present monthly performance packs at senior leadership and business unit review meetings
12. Provide oversight of capex spend to ensure budgets, governance, and business case approvals are adhered to
Process Improvement & Control
13. Implement and improve processes that support effective financial control and administration of the business
14. Lead the ongoing development of FP&A processes to embed best practice and professionalism
15. Identify opportunities to improve reporting content, format, and systems‑based outputs, and see these through to implementation
16. Ensure reporting is timely, accurate, compliant, and scalable to support future growth
Wider Finance & ESG Responsibilities
17. Manage regular reporting requirements for internal and external stakeholders where applicable (e.g. Ofgem, banks, trading partners)
18. Support the Group Environmental Policy and its associated targets, including the ambition to achieve net‑zero outcomes
About You
Essential
19. Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
20. Strong commercial and business acumen, with the ability to translate data into actionable insight
21. Proven experience influencing senior stakeholders and challenging assumptions constructively
22. Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability
23. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial information to non‑finance audiences
Desirable
24. Experience in the energy, utilities, or other asset‑intensive or regulated industries
25. Experience with driver‑based forecasting, scenario modelling, and rolling forecasts
26. Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, Adaptive Insights, or similar visualisation and planning tools
27. Exposure to large, complex data sets across multiple systems
About Us
What's in it for you...
28. Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
29. Volunteering Day
30. Hybrid Working
31. Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
32. Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
33. Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available
As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.
Flexibility Statement
The fast moving nature of the business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to utilise our people in the best possible way at all times and helps our colleagues to make the best contribution in a changing environment.
Ecotricity is Britain's overall greenest energy company- it’s more than just green energy – the breadth and depth of our work on green issues is unmatched. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.
Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.
We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too – we have built windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'.
We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.
Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.