Commercial Finance Business Partner

at  Severn Trent

Our people are what makes Severn Trent a truly exciting and inclusive place to work. We’re a team of over 9,000 people with a purpose to deliver one of life’s essentials, and we do it all while thriving in our unique culture.
We’re a Midlands based FTSE100 plc and welcome people from all walks of life, celebrating their individuality, as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our customers and the communities we represent.
It’s an exciting time to join, as we have a huge ambition to deliver bigger and better than ever before over our next 5-year regulatory period. If you’re seeking an exciting and thoroughly rewarding career in Finance, Severn Trent is the place to be.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our Finance team as an Commercial Finance Business Partner You will deliver information and help drive improvement in Capital Delivery and enable improved programme performance. This will include providing a robust, insightful and balanced view across regulatory, performance and financial objectives. You will ensure a high-quality monthly reporting rhythm, and challenge existing practices to identify improvements in both the short and longer term.
Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, you will be responsible for monitoring and reporting the capital spend, delivery outcomes through partnering Capital Delivery Business Leads.
This is a great opportunity to broaden your skill set further as you will be analysing and communicating capital outputs, performance against regulatory, financial and efficiency targets to key stakeholders to provide a holistic view over programme delivery.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Partnering Business Leads to ensure delivery of Capital Programmes through insightful analysis and challenge.
• Lead on month-end reporting for key business areas and providing regular forecasts / budgets.
• Supporting the Capital Delivery MI strategy by leading on projects to drive improvements in reporting.
• Facilitate the production of robust forecasts for CAPEX, IRE and OPEX.
• Provide analysis and insight on monthly, annual and AMP performance against targets on outputs and finances and drive action within delivery areas where activity is off track.
• Supporting continuous improvement of all capital performance and regulatory reporting to drive business delivery of strategic objectives.
• Robust challenge of departmental forecasts to ensure credibility and deliverability, challenge of existing practices and identification of opportunities to improve performance and drive efficiencies.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE

To be considered for this role, you’ll need:

• Financial qualification in ACCA, ACA or CIMA
• Be commercially minded with experience of understanding performance and driving improvements.
• Demonstrable track record of taking the lead in diagnosing business issues and delivering performance improvements

Having the ability to build strong and credible working relationships across the organisation is a must. The successful candidate will have the ability to understand linkages between complex data sets, focusing on priorities to deliver company objectives.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Partnering Business Leads to ensure delivery of Capital Programmes through insightful analysis and challenge.
• Lead on month-end reporting for key business areas and providing regular forecasts / budgets.
• Supporting the Capital Delivery MI strategy by leading on projects to drive improvements in reporting.
• Facilitate the production of robust forecasts for CAPEX, IRE and OPEX.
• Provide analysis and insight on monthly, annual and AMP performance against targets on outputs and finances and drive action within delivery areas where activity is off track.
• Supporting continuous improvement of all capital performance and regulatory reporting to drive business delivery of strategic objectives.
• Robust challenge of departmental forecasts to ensure credibility and deliverability, challenge of existing practices and identification of opportunities to improve performance and drive efficiencies