As a Finance Business Partner supporting the Retail 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.
Responsibilities
- Provide financial support across multiple Retail 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 Solutions.
- 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.
- Extensive finance experience in a similar business partnering or analytical role.
- A strong 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.
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.
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.
Benefits
- Salary of £56,725
- 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
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