FP&A Analyst

This role will support the FP&A Manager in preparing reporting, consolidations, timetables and communications, with strong financial controls and critical evaluation embedded in the processes.

• Play a key role in budgeting and forecasting cycles, including rolling forecasts and long‑term business plans, ensuring timely consolidation of Retail and submission from Retail, Digital, and Group Services.
• Manage the local annual timetable, aligning with central requirements and providing clear communication, guidance and support to the local team throughout forecasting and budgeting.
• Work closely with Integrated Business Planning team to ensure development of robust long‑term business plans.
• Work closely with the wider finance teams to ensure clarity pf performance drivers and all requirements for forecast and budget met.
• Gain clear understanding of divisional forecasts and budgets, including cost drivers, KPIs, cashflow and expected outcomes, challenging where required.
• Support delivery of financial plans through timely and accurate analysis and reporting – highlighting trends and analysing causes of unexpected variances.
• Drive continuous improvement within the finance team, including automation, efficiency, and standardisation, and support wider plans to upgrade or change financial systems.
• Regularly influence and present to senior finance management, sharing key findings from financial analysis.
• Provide inputs into key finance initiatives and support with ad‑hoc queries.

36 hours a week

To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:

• Qualified or part‑qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA.
• Significant communication experience – presenting financial analysis to senior management.
• Proactive and ambitious – sets high goals for self and continuously strives to improve.
• Exceptional organisational skills to manage multiple deadlines and priorities effectively.
• Strong coordination abilities to align activities across Retail, Digital, and Group Services teams.
• Attention to detail and assurance mindset, ensuring accuracy and integrity in financial packs and submissions.
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint, with advanced skills in financial modelling, reporting templates, and presentation design.
• Ability to work under pressure during crunch periods, maintaining quality and timeliness.

• Extensive experience in the FP&A function with a proven track record of ‘adding value’.
• System experience with SAP and HFM.
• Financial calendar planning expertise, ensuring timely delivery of forecasts, budgets, and reporting cycles.
• Excellent engagement and communication skills, building trust and clarity with senior stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.
• Proactive problem‑solving and process improvement, with the ability to drive change and embed best‑in‑class forecasting and budgeting procedures.

• Competitive salary up to £70,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
• Performance‑related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• 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.

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We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

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