What you’ll be doing
as a Finance Business Partner
As a Finance Business Partner, you will support our Capital Programme Delivery Directors in achieving their financial commitments, ensuring delivery in line with internal business plans and governed funding.
You will play a key role in analysing, challenging and influencing performance - helping the business understand cost drivers, optimise expenditure and surface risks and opportunities early so the right corrective actions can be taken.
Sitting within the Asset Operations & Capital Delivery division, this is a critical role that partners closely with delivery teams, PMO, cost planners and the wider finance community.
1. Lead financial performance insight for the Capital Programme, providing robust analysis, KPIs and challenge to delivery teams.
2. Deliver high-quality financial information, identifying key cost drivers, trends and meaningful insights that support effective decision-making.
3. Partner with PMO on monthly reporting and forecasting - interpreting data, challenging assumptions and communicating a clear narrative back to the business.
4. Prepare and support additional reporting including commercial settlement outcomes, Integrated Business Plan inputs and quarterly forecasts, including cashflow and risk/opportunity impacts.
5. Build strong cross-functional relationships to support continuous improvement and collaborative working across the organisation.
6. Enhance performance controls and reporting to drive forecasting accuracy and ensure we “live within our means”, leading monthly review and challenge sessions with Programme Directors.
7. Support development of capital investment papers to ensure needs are clearly articulated and governance is satisfied.
8. Drive end-to-end process efficiencies and improved financial awareness across the business.
9. Support external reporting requirements and assist with accounting issue resolution alongside the management accounting team.
10. Validate and report business efficiency initiatives and their expected cashable benefits.
11. Respond to ad-hoc analytical requests covering cost visibility, regulatory matters and deep dives into financial performance.
Base location: Hybrid - Clearwater Court - RG1 8DB, with occasional travel to other sites for meetings as required
Working hours: 36 hours, Monday to Friday
What you should bring to the role
Essential
The essential criteria to help you succeed in this role are:
12. Experience working with planning systems, reporting technology and business intelligence tools.
13. Ability to develop insightful data visualisations and working knowledge of SAP, HFM or similar systems.
14. Business partnering experience, ideally within project or capital accounting for large or complex projects.
15. Confident in challenging and influencing stakeholders while building strong working relationships.
16. Excellent financial insight skills, including planning and forecasting.
17. Advanced Excel skills; financial modelling or database skills are advantageous.
18. Strong organisational and planning skills.
19. Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
Desirable
20. Experience in large or complex, matrix organisations.
21. Accounting qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent).
What’s in it for you?
22. Competitive salary up to £70,000 per annum, depending on experience
23. Annual Leave- 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
24. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to both company and individual performance measures and targets
25. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
26. 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.