Finance Business Partner

EQUANS SERVICES LIMITED; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy services contractor is offering an exciting opportunity for a Finance Business Partner in Newcastle upon Tyne. The successful candidate will work closely with senior management, providing financial guidance, managing budgets, and ensuring compliance with governance requirements. Candidates must have a qualified accounting designation and experience with SAP and advanced Excel skills. This full-time role promises a supportive work culture with a number of employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Company car or car allowance

Private health care

5% bonus

5% Pension

Life cover

2 paid volunteering days a year

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with post qualification experience.
• Able to work with complex Excel formulas and pivot tables.
• Experience in team leadership and staff management.

Responsibilities

• Key member of D&S Embedded Energy SLT, involved in strategy setting.
• Provide financial reporting and insights to business leaders.
• Accountable for the preparation of the company budget and rolling forecasts.

Skills

Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)

Experience with SAP and BPC

Advanced Excel skills

Power BI experience

Team leadership

Balance sheet Analysis skills

Education

Qualified Accountant

Tools

SAP

BPC

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

Join Equans, a leading energies and services contractor and a proud member of the global industrial group, Bouygues. With a rich history of excellence in designing, constructing, and maintaining buildings and critical infrastructure worldwide, we are now offering an exciting opportunity for a Finance Business Partner role on a 12 month fixed term basis supporting our Embedded Energy business.

Role overview

With a hard line into the Senior FBP for DES Services, and a dotted line into Director for Embedded Energy, this role is key on the SLT for the Embedded Energy section of the division. This role is the most senior Finance role in Embedded Energy, and will work with the Director and Senior FBP to establish and maintain financial and management procedures, whilst formulating strategic plans to feed into the newly formed Services section of the D&ES Division. Ensure compliance with all regulatory and governance requirements and to provide financial advice, guidance and support to colleagues to enable them to make good decisions and meet business objectives. Produce insights and clarity around data and performance, to help drive the business to achieve potential in both the short and medium term.

Key activities

• Be a key member of D&ES Embedded Energy SLT, playing an active and key role in setting strategy and vision
• Business partner to Director of Embedded Energy, provide thought leadership, act as business conscience, challenge the status quo
• Support the wider D&ES Services business as required by the Senior FBP
• Monitor business performance and provide accurate and timely financial reporting and insights/guidance to D&ES Services MD, Senior FBP D&ES Services, and D&ES Divisional FD
• Ensure alignment with Divisional and UKBU strategy and agenda, ensuring that both Divisional and UKBU Finance requirements are met
• Test the financial impact of proposed strategic objectives, validate the authenticity of forecasts and clarify the full impact of cost savings
• Manage the financial reporting and administration of legal entities as required
• Accountable for the preparation of the company budget and rolling forecasts, including monthly flash results, and monthly business performance reviews
• Report on variances from the established budget and rolling forecasts, and the reasons for those variances including reporting and KPI analysis, and including suggested corrective actions and options to mitigate
• Formulating strategic and long-term business plans
• Lead the preparation of monthly analysis of the financial statements including variance analysis providing explanations and business solutions to help mitigate the risks

Skills, qualifications & experience

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent), with post qualification experience
• Experience with SAP and BPC
• Advanced Excel skills, ability to work with complex formulas and pivot tables - and ability to lead teams through changes to process and approach
• Power BI experience preferable
• High proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Experience in team leadership, and staff management
• Strong skillset in Balance sheet Analysis

What can we offer you?

• Generous holiday allowance
• Company car or car allowance
• Single use private health care
• 5% bonus
• 5% Pension
• Life cover
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance programme

Who are we?

EQUANS is a world leader in energy services with nearly 100,000 employees working in more than 50 countries, with an annual turnover of over 17 billion euros.

In the UK & Ireland, EQUANS is a provider of technical, FM, regeneration and energy services - with specialist capabilities in smart buildings, green mobility, district & embedded energy and decentralised renewables.

EQUANS' 13,500 UK & Ireland employees combine these activities to help businesses, public sector organisations and government to embrace the energy transition towards net zero, and also the digital & industrial transitions that are redesigning the way we move, work and live.

EQUANS is a Bouygues group company.

We are committed to delivering a culture where everyone's voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do.

We encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010.