Finance Manager - Metering and ECO

Job Description

In this exciting and challenging role, the Finance Manager Metering and ECO will focus on supporting the Director, Finance - Metering / ECO finance and Operational stakeholders by providing Business Partner Support and Commercial Insight.

This is a pivotal stage for both the Smart Mandate and ECO programme with combined annual spend in excess of £750m. Ensuring that both programmes are delivered in line with regulatory targets and at optimal cost will be a key part of this high-profile role.

Location - Windsor with flexible home working

The Role

• Finance Business Partner lead for Metering and ECO Programmes

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders across Operations and Finance and work with the Operational teams to deliver business strategy

• Analyse Metering and ECO cost base and translate financial business performance into clear reporting content

• Lead budgeting process to deliver robust and challenging plans

• Prepare and present business cases for senior stakeholders and support delivery of these plans.

• Support Regulatory RFI’s and other submissions as required

• Support the month end process and subsequent reporting

Key Competencies

• Ability to achieve outcomes within agreed timeframes and under time pressures

• Excellent communicator with strong analytical skills and ability to translate complex financial analysis into summarised output

• Team player with experience in building a strong network of relationships across the business and finance teams

• Strong strategic thinking – able to step away from the detail to see the bigger picture

• Commercially minded with confidence to work directly with external stakeholders.

• Strong MS Office skills required, primarily Excel and Powerpoint

Qualifications and Experience

• Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

• ​Previous commercial finance experience in a large organisation

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows;

• Competitive salary and bonus potential

• Car Allowence

• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap

• Pension scheme

• Company Funded Healthcare Plan

• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days

• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

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.