Finance Business Partner/ Assistant Finance - Washington, United Kingdom - Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water

Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water
Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water
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Washington, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Finance Business Partner/ Assistant Finance Business Partner:

  • Salary up to £41,400 + Benefits
  • Location Washington/Homeworking
    About the role

Finance Business Partner/
Assistant Finance Business Partner

Full Time

12 month Fixed Term

Salary - up to £41,400 + Benefits

Location - Washington/Homeworking

About the role


We've a number of opportunities to become our new Assistant Finance Business Partners who will work closely with the business areas to create a real and active partnership with the operations and management.

You'll provide 'real time' high quality support, analysis, and challenge, along with being a trusted advisor that is seen to 'add value' that will assist in their decision making.


We're looking for you to build professional and effective business partnering relationships across the business, along with owning stakeholder relationships and being the first point of contact for analysis and support.

You'll provide insightful financial information to enable decision making, identification of new opportunities to unlock value and monitor emerging risks with mitigating actions.


You'll be undertaking 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 empower your business colleagues to manage the day-to-day financial decisions in their areas though support, education, and engagement.

You'll lead the annual budget process for designated areas, working 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 provide analysis and interpret financial information to identify and highlight key financial opportunities and risks, and where there are areas of concern, propose actions to resolve or mitigate and appropriately escalate.

We're looking for you to support the business in the preparation of business cases ensuring all costs are captured and value of the change is understood, along with monitoring and reporting performance of changes and undertake post implementation reviews.


About you


We're looking for you to have proven experience of working in management accounts in a fast paced, complex financial organisation delivering on time accurate results and analysis, along with proven experience in the preparation of business cases and management accounts.

We're looking for you to be a qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) or qualified by relevant experience


You'll have proven experience of achieving deadlines by working in partnership with others, so experience of senior stakeholder engagement and change management is a must in this role.


We're looking for you to have proven skills to operate confidently in a financial environment, analysing and interpreting financial information to resolve problems, deliver outputs and communicate information for decision-making.

You'll also be able to provide effective, accurate information to enable decision making and risk assessments.


You'll be able to provide insightful customer focused reporting and using finance and non-finance information, along with proven experience in presenting and translating finance data to non-financial managers and excellent communication, data interpretation and engagement.


About us


NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.


We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.


Our values
Our values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding principles which define who we are, what we do and how we do it. They make us different from our competitors and guide our decisions and actions to drive us towards our vision.


Our values are:
Results Driven

  • We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.
Ethical

  • We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.
Customer Focused

  • We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.
Creative

  • We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.
One Team

  • We work together consistently, promoting cooperation, to achieve our corporate objectives.

Colleague benefits
We're the great company we are because of you - our people.

As our way of saying thanks, we offer you a wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of.

To find out more about our benefits, see our benefits booklet attached to this advert.

Eyecare

Discounted Medicals

Employee Assistance Progra
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