Finance Manager – Capex Business Partnering

Anglian Water Services; Huntingdon; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water utility company is seeking a Finance Manager – Capex Business Partnering to provide financial insight across multiple programmes. You will lead a team, ensuring accurate forecasts and budgets while driving financial performance aligned with strategic goals. The ideal candidate will hold a finance qualification and have experience in finance business partnering, particularly in capex environments. You will be instrumental in decision-making and fostering a culture of financial awareness within the organization.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Private healthcare

Annual bonus scheme

Volunteer opportunities

26 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Life cover and personal accident cover

Paid time off for sickness

Free parking at office locations

Family-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Qualified finance professional with relevant certification.
• Experience in a capex/capital finance environment.
• Strong leadership and team development skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as a business partner to senior leaders, providing financial guidance.
• Lead the business planning and forecast cycle for capex.
• Ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.

Skills

Financial business partnering

Leadership skills

Capex planning and forecasting

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis tools

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Qualified Finance professional (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Job description

Finance Manager – Capex Business Partnering
Circa £75,555 dependent on skills and experience
Permanent, full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time
Huntingdon / Peterborough / Lincoln

Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team!

As Finance Manager – Capex Business Partnering, you will deliver financial business partnering across multiple programme and delivery areas of Anglian Water’s capital programme. You will drive financial planning, performance, and strategic decision-making aligned with the organisation’s strategic goals and regulatory expectations. Supporting director and senior leader level stakeholders, you will provide high-quality financial insight, robust planning, budgeting, forecasting, and commercial analysis to enable informed decision-making in a complex regulated environment.

You will lead a team of finance professionals, combining business partnering, project accounting, financial planning and analysis, and financial controls for your assigned areas. You will be accountable for accurate actuals, forecasts, and budgets, delivering insight, ensuring financial integrity, mitigating risks, identifying opportunities, and supporting long‑term sustainability and operational efficiency. Effective communication and leadership skills are essential to engage and challenge non‑financial managers, ensuring your team understands business context, priorities, and objectives. You will also drive and embed a culture of commercial awareness for decision‑making across your business area and the wider Finance function.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a trusted business partner to directors and senior leaders, providing financial guidance, challenge, and support for business cases and investment approvals.
• Design and deliver financial reports and insight, tracking and challenging delivery against financial targets and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the business planning and forecast cycle for capex, ensuring high quality, timely, and compliant inputs for effective reviews and decision making.
• Ensure compliance with reporting deadlines, processes, and standards, and actively review the financial risk environment.
• Champion a culture of insight, transparency, and commercial awareness in financial reporting and decision making.
• Promote a culture of Health, Safety and Wellbeing, embedding ‘Safer Every Day’ and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• A competitive pension scheme where we double‑match your contributions up to 6%
• Private healthcare for your peace of mind
• An annual bonus scheme
• The opportunity to volunteer in your local community
• 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays
• Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)
• Flexible benefits to support your well‑being and lifestyle
• Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental
• Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks
• Excellent family‑friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave

What does it take to be successful?

• Qualified Finance professional (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with recognised finance qualification.
• Experience in leading and developing teams, including performance management.
• Proven experience in finance business partnering in a capex/capital investment environment.
• Strong background in capex planning and forecasting, and providing insight on performance against plans and forecasts.
• Experience working cross‑functionally with PMOs, project teams, and commercial functions.
• Experience in financial risk management and controls in a capital finance environment.
• Record of providing high quality reporting and analysis in capital programmes to support decision making.
• Good knowledge of financial reporting and analysis tools (e.g., Power BI, SAP).
• Strong leadership skills and ability to inspire and support a high‑performing team
• Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills
• Able to use SAP, Power BI, or similar analytics platforms, including creating dashboards and reporting packs

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 11th January 2026

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