What you’ll be doing
as a Capital Finance Manager (Water)
1. Responsible for leading a team to partner the financial performance outcomes of our Capital Programme - supporting the Sponsor teams through the implementation of high-quality insight and KPIs, review and challenge.
2. To provide the high-quality financial information that the business requires to operate effectively and efficiently, including leading and lagging levers, cost drivers, trend analysis and recommendations to assist decision making.
3. Support in specific aspects of the financial reporting cycle with a critical evaluation lens applied. The manager and their business partner team has a key role to play to interpret, influence and challenge, communicating with the business and formulate clear narrative and activity plans as required.
4. Developing relationships with other teams across the Organisation, with a real focus on cross learning and challenging the teams through continuous improvement.
5. Develop and enhance the Performance controls and associated reporting to support proactive management of the programme, including but not limited to, forecasting accuracy, supporting and validating efficiencies against programmes and “living within our means”, driving consistent high-quality insight that drives action across the teams.
6. As a key financial liaison, partner with the various departments across Finance and the business to deliver end-to-end process efficiencies and improved financial awareness
7. Review capital investment papers as required by the business, ensuring needs are clearly articulated and internal governance requirements are met. Ensure that decision-making process adequately considers the regulatory environment we are operating in and the relevant funding mechanisms.
8. Respond to ad hoc requests for analytics to provide support to stakeholders for cost visibility, regulatory matters, deep-dive investigations into financial performance etc.
9. Support proactive identification and resolution of technical accounting matters relating to the capital delivery areas. The manager will also provide support and guidance as needed for audit deliverables.
Hybrid – Clearwater Court, Reading
36 hours a week
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
10. Extensive experience of financial and analytical experience
11. Accounting qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)
12. Strong excel skillset and analytical abilities required
13. Experience with planning systems and reporting technology
14. Experience with business intelligence tools and developing data visualisations
15. Business partnering, Capital Programme accounting experience - including experience of working with large investment programmes
16. Business partnering, accounting experience - including experience of working with senior managers
17. Track record of delivering value and change, through challenge and influencing decision making as well as building strong relationships
18. Planning and Organisational skills to work effectively
19. Process improvement experience/track record
20. Excellent knowledge of providing financial insight, preparing annual plans, forecasts
21. Good understanding of accounting best practice and technical requirements
Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:
22. Solid modelling and/or database skills are preferable
23. Experience in similar organisations with finance teams responsible for managing and operating large asset bases
24. Experience of leading a team
What’s in it for you?
25. Competitive salary up to £80,000 per annum, depending on experience
26. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
27. Car Allowance
28. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
29. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
30. Private Medical Health Care
31. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.