Business Planning Analyst

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.

Join us to make a positive impact on the environment and our communities, while being valued and supported in a truly inclusive workplace.

If you want to do more, because you care, we want you on our team.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

We’re looking for a Financial Business Planning Analyst to play a key role in shaping and embedding our AMP8 business planning programme. This is an exciting opportunity to help transform the way we plan and deliver our annual and five‑year investment programmes, supporting a £13bn AMP8 investment that is efficient, strategically aligned, and flexible enough to respond to new opportunities.

You’ll sit at the heart of our planning activity, working across finance and the wider business to ensure strong cost control, robust governance, and a clear link between long‑term financial plans and the operational drivers behind them. Your work will directly inform the organisation’s long‑term strategic financial plan through to 2030.

What you’ll be doing

In this role, you’ll help evolve our financial models to better connect financial forecasts with underlying volumetric data, such as people, energy consumption and chemical usage. By bringing financial and non‑financial data together, you’ll identify opportunities to increase revenue, reduce costs, and drive efficiency across the Group.

Working closely with the Group FP&A team and the cost transformation function, you’ll ensure seamless alignment between in‑year reporting, rolling forecasts, and medium‑term plans. You’ll also support strong governance and oversight of our £13bn AMP8 programme, helping the business deliver its outcomes with confidence and control.

Key responsibilities include:

Reviewing elements of the totex (total opex and capex) programme to understand run rates, volumetric drivers and price assumptions through to 2030.
Supporting the annual business planning process and development of a rolling five‑year financial plan, with clear visibility of risks and opportunities.
Taking part in the central ownership of budget target pricing for key cost drivers, including chemicals, energy, headcount, commodities and unit costs (£/megalitre).
Identifying efficiency opportunities to feed into the cost transformation agenda.
Mapping the totex plan to activities and outputs, ensuring our financial plans support delivery of key business outcomes.
Supporting governance arrangements to maintain full oversight of the £13bn five‑year plan.
Partnering with commercial and operational teams to understand, challenge and strengthen long‑term financial plans.

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.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role, you’ll have experience within a financial planning or FP&A environment and a strong analytical mindset. You’ll be comfortable working with complex data, challenging assumptions, and using evidence to support decision‑making.

You’ll ideally have:

Full or part qualification in ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
Experience within a FP&A or financial planning team.
Strong analytical skills, particularly in combining financial and non‑financial data.
Experience using systems such as Tagetik, SAP ECC and SAP BW (desirable).
A natural curiosity and the confidence to challenge constructively.

Skills and behaviours

We’re looking for someone who:

Has solid accounting knowledge and excellent attention to detail.
Brings strong analytical and diagnostic skills, with the ability to challenge and influence.
Works collaboratively, balancing the needs of different stakeholders including customers, regulators, investors and NGOs.
Has a continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on systemisation and digitisation of processes.
Actively improves data quality and robustness.
Identifies risks and opportunities across complex programmes.
Is a self‑starter who manages time effectively and works well to tight deadlines.
Can inspire colleagues and stakeholders to strengthen programme controls and decision‑making.

Qualifications

Professional financial qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent experience.

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.

HOW WE’LL REWARD AND CARE FOR YOU

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.  

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

LET’S GO

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