Job Description
Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Job Requisition Number 8172
Work Type Permanent (Hybrid Working - Flexibility Considered)
Job Function Finance
Salary Range £55,892.00 base salary
Base South East Hub
Closing Date 23:59 on 02 December 2025
What you’ll be responsible for
Ready to make an impact beyond the numbers?
We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner who thrives on turning data into decisions and insight into action. This isn’t just about reporting – it’s about shaping strategy, influencing leaders, and driving efficiency across the business.
What’s in it for you?
You'll join a dynamic team where your financial expertise will shape decisions and influence the future of the business. This role goes beyond numbers – you’ll be a trusted partner, providing insight that challenges thinking and drives performance. You’ll work closely with senior leaders, contribute to strategic plans, and play a key role in delivering efficiencies and value across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead Financial Planning: Organise and run business planning sessions, preparing budgets and forecasts that shape the unit’s strategy.
* Drive Cost Efficiency: Identify and embed cost reduction opportunities, challenging processes and spend to deliver targets.
* Provide Insightful Analysis: Develop cost models, track performance, and deliver bespoke analysis to support key decisions.
* Own Month-End Close: Ensure accurate, timely reporting with clear variance analysis and commentary for senior management.
* Partner with Leaders: Work with budget holders to assess financial impacts and support short- and medium-term plans.
* Monitor Regulatory Targets: Track performance against Ofwat price review requirements and efficiency initiatives.
* Support Strategic Projects: Build business cases and financial models for new opportunities and improvements.
* Lead and Inspire: Manage a team of finance professionals, fostering innovation and process improvement.
Who you’ll work with
Internal
* Role reports to the Finance Manager
* Business Unit Financial Controller
* Heads of Service
* Central Management Accountant team
* Financial & Regulatory Accountant
* Finance Projects, Planning and Process Manager
External
* Suppliers
* External Audit
About you
Essential Qualifications
* ACCA or CIMA
Essential Experience
* Team management and leadership of individuals (line managing in this role)
* Commerciality and the ability to understand and assimilate business strategy with operations and cost drivers with a demonstratable track record of supporting a business to improve financial performance.
* Managing and undertaking Financial Planning and Analysis working with a variety of budget holders with different needs (e.g. commercial areas and overhead areas).
* Ideally 3 years+ post-qualified experience in a similar role requiring cost analysis and different forecasting techniques.
Essential Knowledge & Skills
* Comfortable working independently with operational teams and as part of a finance department.
* Proficient user of MS Office and in particular MS Excel with demonstrable experience of manipulating large volumes of data accurately and efficiently.
* Self-starter able to manage ambiguity in a complex and commercially oriented environment, operating flexibly, showing accuracy and attention to detail in all work.
* Team orientation, collaborative and tactful with good presentation skills.
* Exceptional interpersonal skills able to build effective relationship and clearly communicate results with senior level executives both verbally and in written form.
Good to know
* Hybrid working
* For an informal discussion about this role, please contact: recruitment@dwrcymru.com and enter the Job Requisition Number [8194] in the subject title line.
Benefits
As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:
• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Free Mortgage Brokering Services
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
• Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
• Many more can be found here!
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.