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Posted Date:  26 Apr 2024
Posting End Date:  10-May-2024
Location:  Coventry
Company:  Severn Trent Water
Department:  Finance and Assurance
Salary (£):  £75,000-£85,000

Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner

 

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 growing, 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 an opportunity for you to join our team as a Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner based at our head office in Coventry.

 

In this role, you’ll be a key member of the senior leadership team of a defined business area, acting as a trusted and respected partner, ensuring you drive financial performance, manage significant OPEX and CAPEX expenditure effectively and show essential commercial acumen that fosters healthy financial decision making from top down.

 

You’ll drive an outperformance culture through delivering sustainable cost reduction opportunities and you’ll be critical in holding your leadership and operational teams to account for their financial performance. How? By utilising your strong commercial capabilities, excellent insight and influencing skills.

 

Key Accountabilities:

 

  • Challenging departmental budgets and forecasts to ensure credibility and deliverability, whilst seeking opportunities to improve performance and drive efficiencies within existing practices.
  • Providing accurate forecasts that provide insight to your business area to course-correct and deliver their numbers for the year.
  • Offer accurate, timely analysis and insight against targets on outputs and finances.
  • Accountability for challenging and driving action where performance is off track.
  • Creating and motivating a team who have the skills, experience, and drive to support the business area, and enable critical, value-based decision-making.
  • Identifying and implementing efficiencies at pace to improve financial controls.

 

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE 

 

To be considered for this role, you must be fully qualified - ACCA, ACA, or CIMA.

 

You must be able to demonstrate a strong track record of leading, developing and delivering top-class financial performance, business partnering, insight, forecasting and reporting in a large, fast paced, highly commercial and competitive organisation.

Having exposure to senior stakeholder management and being adept in influencing at all levels of a business is essential.

 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU  

 

Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent. We’ll reward you for it, too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live. 

 

With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family:

  

  • 31 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year).
  • Annual bonus scheme (of up to 20% of salary dependent on company performance). 
  • Car allowance of £5,208 per annum (pro-rata where applicable).
  • 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.  
  • Private medical cover, life assurance, income protection and personal accident cover.
  • Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers.  
  • Family friendly policies.
  • Two volunteering days per year.

 

At Severn Trent, you’ll be joining a culture that cares, one that works together to achieve, grow, and develop. And when it comes to our employee engagement scores – they’re some of the highest of energy and utility companies globally*, and we believe that is down to our wonderful culture, created by our wonderful people. 

 

That why’s when it comes to how we work, we want to keep up those special in-person moments, to keep our culture alive. But don’t get us wrong, we understand the flexibility that working remotely can bring. Which is why when it comes to how we work – you’ll usually find us in the office, but when you need to work remotely, we’re here for it, when you need it – if suitable for your role. 

 

 

WHATS NEXT? 

 

We can’t wait to hear from you.  

 

Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare. We’ll always let you know the outcome of your application after the closing date too - so keep an eye on your phone and emails.

 

And, if your curiosity has peaked and you want to find out even more, search #LifeAtSevernTrent on social media.

 

*Data source: Peakon (2023) – Severn Trent top 5% of energy and utility companies globally for employee engagement scores.

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