What you will be doing
as Head of Financial Planning & Analytics
Analytics and Assurance -
1. Develop and implement advanced analytic tools and methodologies to provide deeper insights into financial data and support strategic decision making
2. Identify key drivers and performance correlators for key components of Revenue, Cost and Capital for use in assurance and insight development.
3. Provide independent analysis of company-wide financial information and provide insightful, accurate and timely financial recommendations for decision making purposes
4. Ensure we understand linkages with regulatory outcomes and requirements, and have robust controls, checks and measures to ensure the accuracy and validity of all outputs of the team.
Planning forecasting and Budgeting -
5. Ownership of the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting planning cycles
6. Lead and partner with the Business to develop comprehensive financial plans that align with the company’s strategic objectives.
7. Implement innovative forecasting techniques to ensure we correlate with internal and external benchmarks and ensure we can anticipate market and business needs to enable agile responses to changing conditions.
8. Own the annual Budgeting process. Focus on quality and continuous improvement to ensure this is flexible, responsive and makes use of market leading tools and technologies to drive an efficient and accurate process.
9. Produce effective reporting that facilitates informed decision making
10. Drive a collaborative process with the long-term strategic planning team (SBP)
Finance transformation -
11. Significant involvement in the transformation of the Finance and Commercial department
12. Key focus on collaborating with the existing Plan To Perform transformation team to refine and deliver on the transformational agenda for FP&A across Thames..
13. Drive forward the plan to eliminate, simplify, standardise and automate our performance reporting
Stakeholder management -
14. Extremely strong communication and influencing skills. Key to translate complex financial information into clear and concise actionable insight, and Influence decision making at senior management level.
15. Build a strong FP&A community across Finance to drive effective and efficient processes and foster a strong collaborative end-to-end performance management framework.
16. Collaborate with the Strategic Business Planning team on long-term business planning cycle
What you should bring to the role?
17. Proven experience in a senior FP&A role, preferably within a large, complex organisation.
18. Strong leadership skills with a track record of driving change and innovation.
19. Expertise in financial analytics, reporting, planning, forecasting, and budgeting.
20. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
21. Ability to think strategically and translate vision into actionable plans.
22. Advanced proficiency in financial software and tools.
What's in it for you?
This is an exciting time to join Thames Water as we continue to deliver on our turnaround plan, offering the opportunity to become part of our strategic journey.
23. Competitive salary £100,000 - £120,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
24. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays).
25. Car Allowance - £5,800 per annum.
26. Annual Bonus.
27. Private Medical Health Care.
28. Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
29. Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
30. Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.