Finance Business Partner – Capital Delivery

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with Capital Delivery Business Leads to support and challenge the delivery of capital programmes through insightful financial and performance analysis.
• Lead month‑end reporting for key business areas, including budgets, forecasts and variance analysis.
• Monitor and report capital spend and delivery outcomes, ensuring alignment with regulatory, financial and efficiency targets.
• Develop, produce and present clear and balanced capital performance reporting to senior leadership teams, Portfolio Boards and other approval bodies.
• Identify key risks and opportunities impacting annual and AMP performance, working proactively with delivery teams to mitigate risks and maximise opportunities.
• Support and continuously improve capital programme governance, accounting processes and compliance with budgetary controls.
• Facilitate robust forecasting across CAPEX, IRE and OPEX and provide clear insight into performance trends.
• Lead and contribute to projects that enhance Management Information (MI) and reporting capability across Capital Delivery.
• Provide high‑quality regulatory and performance reporting, including supporting submissions to Ofwat where required.
• Build strong working relationships across Finance, Strategy, Strategic Asset Planning and Capital Delivery to support long‑term capital planning.
• Support and mentor the Capital MI Analyst, helping to drive ongoing improvements in data quality and reporting.
• Deliver ad‑hoc analysis and reporting to support performance management and decision‑making.

How We Work

You’ll be based at our Severn Trent Centre in Coventry and will work 37 hours a week. The role is a critical part of the Capital Delivery & Commercial Finance team and offers flexibility to work from home as needed.

What We’re Looking For

Essential experience and skills

• Strong experience in performance analysis, with a track record of driving improvement through insight and challenge.
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge, with the ability to explain accounting standards clearly to the business and external auditors.
• Ability to understand and connect complex data sets, focusing on priorities that support organisational objectives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge at all levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for different audiences.
• Advanced MS Office skills, alongside experience of SAP ECC and BI tools.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness.

Desirable

• Knowledge of capital programme governance processes.
• Understanding of AMP7 outcomes and their link to capital delivery.
• Experience of delivering improvement projects or programmes of work.

Your Capabilities

• Enjoys working with complex information and can translate it into clear, meaningful insights.
• Understands the wider financial, performance and regulatory landscape.
• Adapts influencing style to different situations and stakeholders.
• Builds credibility through strong relationships, collaboration and constructive challenge.
• Manages competing priorities effectively and remains organised under pressure.
• Brings a strong team ethos and a commitment to sharing best practice.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant.
• Full UK driving licence.
• GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Maths at grade C or above, or demonstrable numeric and verbal competence through relevant experience.

How We’ll Reward And Care For You

We offer a range of benefits to support your well‑being and career development.

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

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