Senior Finance Business Partner

TN United Kingdom; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Finance Business Partner to join their dynamic team in Coventry. This pivotal role offers the chance to drive financial performance and strategic decision-making across multiple sites. You'll be integral in managing stakeholder relationships, leading forecasting processes, and ensuring robust financial controls. With a generous salary range and a market-leading benefits package, including flexible working options, this opportunity promises to enhance your career in a supportive and inclusive environment. If you're ready to make an impact in a fast-paced setting, this role is for you.

Benefits

26 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Generous Pension Scheme

Life Cover

Flexible Benefits Package

Bonus Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial finance roles with a focus on value addition.
• Strong understanding of accounting standards and practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual MTP process and prepare quarterly forecasts.
• Manage financial controls in line with internal policies and regulations.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Financial Analysis

Forecasting

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Commercial Acumen

Education

Degree in Finance or Accounting

Professional Accounting Membership (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

MS Office

SAP

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Senior Finance Business Partner, Coventry

Client:

Our market-leading benefits package includes 26 days holiday + bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, life cover, bonus and the chance to choose from 20 flexible benefits with tax and/or NI savings.

Location:

Coventry, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

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Posted:

28.04.2025

Expiry Date:

12.06.2025

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our team based in Westwood. This is an exciting opportunity offering hybrid working along with a salary from £58,693 to £71,634 along with a strong benefits package.

Senior Finance Business Partner

Here's what you'll be doing

We are seeking a dynamic Senior Finance Business Partner to join our City Energy Solutions (CES) team. In this pivotal role, you will support CES in achieving its financial targets, ensuring the successful delivery of Medium Term Plans (MTP), and providing comprehensive insights into the monthly performance of our diverse portfolio of assets within the Generation business stream. You will also play a crucial role in maintaining a robust financial control environment across multiple sites, leveraging various systems, processes, and people to drive excellence. If you are ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, multi-site environment, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder relationships: You’ll have full functional controlling support for the P&L and all other financial dimensions (balance sheet/cash/CAPEX) and you’ll be the lead Business Partner to business head, and site budget holders. Additionally, you’ll provide expertise on financial processes to site managers, team leaders, their budget holders and all staff/contractors on-site.
• Forecasting: You’ll lead the annual MTP process, prepare quarterly forecasts/Latest Best View submissions and provide insightful analysis and interpretation to guide and inform long term business strategy and decision making.
• Reporting: You will be responsible for month end reporting process, including preparation of journals and reporting packs, for the full Generation P&L (gross margin, controllable costs, capital expenditure, FTE and operational metrics). You will lead on annual impairment test reviews and also support annual audit processes.
• Insight: You will provide full financial insight, to support steering achievement of MTP commitments, support commercial decision making, and guide future strategic direction.
• Risk & opportunities: It will be up to you to capture & monitor financial risks and opportunities and have input into their resolution, to provide controlling of maintenance projects (CAPEX/OPEX) including support of project prioritization and ensure consistent standards in terms of process and reporting quality, adhering to common finance policies, processes, systems and procedures as required by the business.
• Governance & Control: With your understanding of the key financial drivers for the sites you’ll effectively manage financial controls on site in line with internal policy and external regulation and brief the site management team on emergent issues to ensure finances are kept within budget and forecasts are delivered.
• Commercial: Alongside our Commercial teams, you will provide commercial business support to drive performance and support the business, providing detailed financial reports to support existing external customer contracts.
• Innovation & digitalisation: You will be proactive in driving process efficiency and improving data accuracy, driving change and implementing, where possible, digital solutions to automate processes.

What we need from you

• Previous experience of adding value within a commercial focused finance role
• Degree educated with membership of a professional accounting institute (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Good understanding of accounting standards and application.
• Resilience and ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise workloads in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to deal effectively and confidently with all individuals at all levels of the business.
• Must have strong commercial acumen and proven ability to identify key issues
• Track record of stakeholder management with ability to provide both effective support and challenge to senior customers and stakeholders.
• A proactive and creative approach to problem solving, and challenging established thinking.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Office applications and SAP.

Here’s what you need to know

Our market-leading benefits package includes 26 days holiday + bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, life cover, bonus and the chance to choose from 20 flexible benefits with tax and/or NI savings. In fact, our benefits package recently won the Personnel Today Reward, Recognition and Benefits Award 2022!
As the only energy company to feature in The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers (our 2022/23 ranking is 15th), we’ve proven that we’re committed to equal opportunities and actively promote a diverse and inclusive working environment, and fairness for everyone.
We realize the best people bring their energy at different times, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working and offer a range of flexible working options, including full time, part time, and job share.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role.
We’ve exciting opportunities for everyone to develop their talent at E.ON. Our open access, inclusive talent networks provide networking, learning, and development for all, building your skills, qualifications, and capabilities throughout your career.

E.ON is committed to being an inclusive employer. We recognize that everyone is different, and we aim to provide a working environment where each person feels respected, valued, and able to achieve their full potential. We are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please just let us know.

At a glance

Reference no.: 229726

Closing date: 18/08/2024

Salary: £58,693 to £71,634

Get in touch:

If you have any further questions regarding this role, please contact Ailsa MacQuillin at [email].

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