Finance Business Partner

About The Role

Finance Business Partner

The Finance Business Partner (FBP) role is critical for providing stakeholders (internal/external to finance) with insight, support, and constructive challenge on all financial matters relevant to performance in their areas of responsibility.

You act as the main liaison between finance and the business, in line with strategic and operational finance requirements.

This role's area of primary responsibility is Ecotricity Limited business partnering, including the payroll, administrative costs and project support, alongside taking the lead on Ofgem regulatory returns.

You will be expected to take the lead in your own area of the business by influencing decision-making; improving the understanding of business performance; analysis and insight on business opportunities and providing options and scenarios for business decisions.

Strategic finance focus:

• Lead on resourcing and operational budgets - owning and driving completion of budgeting, forecasting and decision support/scenario analysis
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with senior leaders and their teams. Challenge and support by promoting a culture of cost consciousness, value enhancement and accountability
• Identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and develop reporting formats to link the operational and financial performance of the business unit. These include ownership of the cost to serve, cost to acquire and segmental cost centre processes and calculations
• Coordination and preparation of reporting for regulatory purposes including stress tests, price cap derogation and other RFIs
• Sharing of key information with the B2B/B2C business partners to give them an overall view of their segments.

Operational finance focus:

• Ensure month end figures accurately represent each period's activity and carry out variance analysis from budget/forecast, identifying key issues and trends.
• Produce budgets and forecasts for specific areas of responsibility using robust models and credible and documented assumptions
• To ensure budget holders and managers have an awareness of financial performance requirements, including the need for budgetary control and to provide financial awareness training where necessary.
• Proactively work with budget holders to resolve any concerns or difficulties with their financial performance
• Prepare and present month end packs to the business
• Ownership and monitoring of risks & opportunities - using business understanding to ensure key risks and opportunities are known, quantified, managed by the business, and communicated in monthly reporting and forecasts
• Oversight and reporting of project spend to ensure budget and business case approvals are correctly observed
• Implement effective processes to support the financial administration and control of the business

• Ensure all reporting is on time, robust, compliant, and consistent and that it supports both current activities and future growth requirements
• Lead the development of the FP&A processes to drive best practice and embed professionalism. To be a positive team member providing cover as required. Work with team to get a good overview of other's responsibilities
• Responsible for managing all regular reporting requirements for internal and external stakeholders (including Ofgem, banks, trading partners, and other interested parties)
• Actively develop content and format of reporting, identify areas of improvement, and follow through to implementation of system-based output
• Proactively identify areas of improvement and work with others to implement and see these through to completion - in both the FP&A and wider financial control environments
• To take responsibility for own personal development and update knowledge and skills, with support from Ecotricity, to perform the role at an effective level

This is a full-time permanent opportunity, which offers the benefits of flexible hybrid working arrangements. Typically, this role will require you to work 2 days per week in our Office, based in Stroud (Gloucestershire) and 3 days per week either from home, or the Office.

Fully qualified accountant

• (CIMA, ACA, ACCA…