Commodities Finance Analyst

Job Description

As a Finance Analyst Energy Margin (Commodity Costs), you will work closely with the Finance Manager – Energy Margin (Commodity Costs) with a primary focus on Commodity cost P&L reporting, forecasting and analysis. Key to ensuring success in this role will be building strong working relationships both within and outside of Finance, for example, with the Pricing, Energy Supply & Hedging, Demand Forecasting and Financial Control teams.

Location

With our Flexible First working arrangements we empower our colleagues to work in a way that best suits them – meaning location doesn’t need to be a barrier. You will be expected to travel to Windsor maybe once a week, but the role is primarily based from home.

Our Team and Environment

At Centrica we recognise that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all our applicants.

Key accountabilities:

• Supporting and leading ad hoc analysis of commodity and other margin items variances to expectations in order to support the messaging of key variances upwards and to Group

• Working dynamically with the various teams that provide evolving inputs into the forecast and month-end reporting processes, to ensure a) our team are kept informed and b) our processes can work with new inputs/sources or external process changes

• Forecasting support for margin, taking ownership of specific elements of the P&L. Review & challenge to ensure clarity and consistency regarding assumptions taken and ensure sensitivities are understood

• Support with the development and delivery of clear supporting analysis and commentary that can be used for upwards reporting (e.g. Group deliverables & FPRs)

• Support causals/analysis of forecast vs. comparatives (e.g Plan, P/year) ensuring margin movements are explained & production of summary level messaging for senior stakeholders

• Financial modelling to evaluate impacts of changes in forecast drivers, for example sensitivity analysis or high level re-forecasting

• Work in conjunction with business teams to assess impact of proposals (such as product launches) to support decision-making forums

• Providing a high-quality response to ad hoc queries demonstrating business understanding and analytical excellence

• Maintaining and improving efficiency/effectiveness; explore opportunities to develop forecasting and reporting methodology to drive greater understanding, efficiency, and standardisation

To succeed in this role, you will be able to demonstrate advanced Excel and analytic skills, this is essential for this role, in addition you will be studying for or completed an accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) as well as be able to work quickly and accurately under pressure to meet tight deadlines.

Joining our team means more than just a competitive salary. We offer an exceptional pension & bonus scheme and an impressive 33 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

Furthermore, we care about your well-being and offer a range of benefits to suit your lifestyle. We strive to support you with healthcare plans extendable to your immediate family, an Online GP24 virtual service, eye test vouchers, Group Income Protection, Life Assurance & Accident Insurance, and much more.

Take advantage of this opportunity to shape the future with British Gas and positively impact the energy industry. Apply now and be part of our exciting journey!

#LI-BGAS

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.