Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Full Time

Up to 23 Month Fixed Term Contract

Salary – £47,840 - £59,800 depending on experience

Location – Pity Me, Durham/Homeworking

About the role

We have an excellent opportunity to become one of our Finance Business Partners who will work within our Asset Management directorate creating a real and active partnership with operations and management. You’ll be providing ‘real time’ high quality support, analysis, and challenge, along with being a trusted advisor that is seen to ‘add value’ that will assist decision making.

You’ll be partnering with the business to provide insightful financial information to enable decision making, identification of new opportunities to unlock value and monitor emerging risks with mitigating actions, along with developing and leading financial and commercial awareness across the business. You’ll support the business in the preparation of business cases ensuring all costs are captured and value of the change is understood. Monitor and report performance of changes and undertake post implementation reviews.

We’re looking for you to analyse and interpret financial information to identify and highlight key financial opportunities and risks, and when there are areas of concern, propose actions to resolve or mitigate, engage across the business, and appropriately escalate.

You’ll lead the annual budget process for designated areas, work with budget holders to ensure that their budget submissions reflect their strategic plans, and that the information submitted is on time, accurate, and consistent.  You’ll also undertake financial performance reviews, maintaining an ongoing forecast and lead month end management accounting processes to identify and track risks and opportunities, and updating any changes.

We’re looking for you to build professional and effective relationships across the business; own stakeholder relationship and being the first point of contact for analysis and support. You’ll support the Senior FBP in developing and implementing new finance processes and procedures as required by business or regulatory changes

About you

We’re looking for the successful candidate to proven experience in fast paced, complex financial organisation delivering on time accurate results and analysis, along with working to tight deadlines and proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders.  You’ll also be a qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA).

You’ll have proven and vast experience of analysing and interpreting financial information within a business context, to support decision-making that drives value. You’ll be commercially astute, with excellent interpretation and judgement skills, along with being proficient in the use of Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel.      

We’re looking for you to have proven experience of constructively challenging, influencing, and persuading business colleagues, along with the capability to develop relationships and gain credibility with stakeholders.

You’ll be a skilled ‘resource investigator’ to bring in external ideas and expertise, along with having a track record in identifying and delivering efficiencies, so strong financial awareness and capability, along with a high level of business curiosity and engagement is key.

You will require a full & valid UK Manual driving license for this role.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.

Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.

We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. 

Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment

NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.

About us

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply

NWG at a glance:

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.

We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Our benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 26 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 11%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.