Finance Business Partner

Severn Trent; Coventry; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Annual bonus up to £2,250

Pension scheme

Sharesave

Academy training

Electric vehicle scheme

Family policies

Volunteer days

Job summary

Severn Trent is seeking a Finance Business Partner to drive commercial insight and financial performance within the Customer Planning & Scheduling division. You will report to the Senior Finance Business Partner and play a pivotal role in in-year delivery and AMP planning.

You will build relationships with cost centre managers, lead budgeting, support planning, and deliver insightful monthly reporting to central finance and key stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Extensive finance experience in a business partnering or analytical role.
• Experience partnering with non-finance stakeholders with varying levels of finance knowledge.
• Ability to identify business issues and drive performance with insight.
• Strong verbal and written communication; able to challenge credibly.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support across multiple cost centres, including month-end close.
• Lead budgeting for designated areas and support annual planning with stakeholders.
• Conduct variance analysis, identify risks and opportunities, and provide actionable insights.

Skills

Finance partnering

Finance analysis

Stakeholder engagement

MS Office & BI tools

Education

ACA/CIMA/ACCA qualification

Tools

SAP ECC

Business Intelligence tools

Job description

At Severn Trent, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re in the top 5% of utility companies worldwide for employee engagement, and we’re equally proud of our strong Glassdoor score — reflecting how much our people love working here.

Join us to make a positive impact on the environment and our communities, while being valued and supported in a truly inclusive workplace.

If you want to do more, because you care, we want you on our team.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

As a Finance Business Partner supporting the Customer Planning & Scheduling division within Customer Solutions, you will play a pivotal role in driving commercial insight, operational effectiveness, and financial performance. Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, you will shape decision‑making for senior stakeholders, ensure robust financial control, and actively contribute to both in‑year delivery and AMP planning.

This role offers an excellent development pathway and is designed to position you as a future successor to the Senior Finance Business Partner.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide financial support across multiple cost centres, including month‑end close and cost control.
• Build strong working relationships with cost centre managers to support delivery of in‑year performance targets.
• Lead the budgeting process for your designated areas.
• Support the annual business planning cycle, working with stakeholders to gather inputs and deliver high‑quality financial modelling.
• Conduct detailed variance analysis, identifying risks, opportunities, and actionable insights from data.
• Prepare accurate monthly forecasts that reflect planned outputs and financial impacts.
• Deliver clear and concise monthly performance reporting to central finance and key stakeholders within Customer delivery.
• Ensure accurate cost allocation during the annual regulatory reporting cycle, in line with regulatory accounting standards.
• Create and deliver engaging, insight‑led presentations with minimal support.
• Influence commercially sound decision‑making by balancing financial and non‑financial considerations.
• Understand and validate non‑financial cost drivers to support data integrity across reporting.
• Provide ad hoc analysis and modelling where required.

How We Work

You’ll be based at our Severn Trent Centre in Coventry. With this being such a critical role, we’re looking for someone who can join us 37 hours a week.

You’ll join a caring culture that collaborates to achieve, grow, and develop. Our employee engagement scores are among the highest globally in energy and utilities. That’s why, we value in-person moments to keep our culture alive but also understand the flexibility working from home can bring. So, you’ll usually find us in the office, but working from home is supported, when you need it.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

To be successful, you will bring:

• Extensive finance experience in a similar business partnering or analytical role.
• Experience of business partnering multiple non finance stakeholders with differing finance knowledge.
• Ability to identify business issues and support performance improvement through meaningful insight.
• Confidence in articulating recommendations that support strategic decision‑making.
• A track record of building robust, credible relationships across an organisation.
• Experience contributing to continuous improvement activities.
• Strong capability in MS Office, SAP ECC and business intelligence tools.

Capabilities & Skills

You will thrive in this role if you can:

• Apply strong analytical and problem solving skills to complex issues, ensuring actions are followed through and embedded.
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, translating complexity into clarity.
• Provide high value insight into performance outcomes, highlighting key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Offer credible challenge and guidance at all levels.
• Work collaboratively across functions, promoting shared learning and best practice.
• Manage your workload effectively, prioritising competing demands and meeting deadlines.
• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness and sound financial judgement.
• Maintain a strong understanding of financial control processes.

Qualifications

• A recognised financial or accountancy qualification (e.g., ACA, CIMA, ACCA) is essential.

Skills and experience are important, but character, positivity, and a caring attitude matter too. We welcome and celebrate diverse individuals, knowing they help us better serve our communities. We seek people who get involved, want to be part of something bigger, and make a difference because they care.

How We’ll Reward And Care For You

It’s not just a job you’ll get here, you’ll get a career too.

We have a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the community in which we live.

Here’s Some Of Our Favourites

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
• Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250 per annum based on company performance)
• Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
• Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
• Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family friendly policies
• Two volunteer days per year