Financial Reporting Analyst

Job Description

Join us, be part of more.

We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

About your team:

At British Gas, our mission is to sell it and mend it.

We’re the household heroes powering 1 in 3 homes in the UK – but supplying energy is just part of what we do. We’re making the UK’s homes greener and more energy efficient, together with our friends at Hive. By using their clever tech like thermostats, heat pumps, solar panels and EV chargers, we’re making it cheaper and easier to reduce your home’s carbon-footprint. And with our Peak Save programme, we’re actively rewarding better energy use too.

This is an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified finance analyst, to join the Net Zero finance team at the heart of this exciting new business. Through British Gas Zero, we install, optimise and service green devices and upgrade customer’s homes to reduce emissions, improve resilience and reduce their energy consumption.

This key role provides financial reporting, analysis supporting the business teams across of the key areas in Net Zero Ventures, a £100m revenue business today with strong growth aspirations across Retrofit (Heatpumps, Insulation, Solar), Home Energy Management (Hive, DSR, EV) and Hydrogen. This will involve close working across the team to make sure the financial impacts of changes in drivers are understood as well as ensuring the right reporting and measures are in place to support the business. It is an exciting opportunity to work closely with a growth area of the to create value through good decision making, and commercial understanding of the business drivers.

Fixed Term Contract - 12 months

Location - Windsor / Flexible Home Working

Accountabilities

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in the Finance teams as well as the business
• Develop deep understanding of key drivers of the cost base through the lens of KPIs and linking those to financial performance
• Support the wider finance team and business by providing robust, insight and analysis to drive improvements in financial performance
• Be a champion of standardisation and automation embedding improvements in team efficiency and increased insight for the business to make better decisions
• Possess the ability to interrogate, analyse and derive insight from data

Plan and Monitor the Business

• Regularly review and report performance against Group Annual Plan & latest forecast, working with the Net Zero Ventures business to analyse financial and operational (value driver) variances and recommend corrective action
• Deliver an accurate, efficient, and transparent plan/forecast which meets finance and business stakeholder requirements
• Drive design and delivery of changes to forecasting/reporting methodologies, to embed changes in how the business operates or the availability of new data or tools

Experience and Qualifications

• Accounting qualification
• Previous business partnering / FP&A finance experience in a large organisation including:
• Communication of analysis and insight across the business
• Building financial models, creating robust forecasts and budgets
• Reporting monthly financial performance with insight into key drivers and
• Track record of process improvement and experience in dealing with large datasets
• Strong excel and ideally use of Microsoft tools like PBI

Why should you apply?

We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you.

https://www.morethanacareer.energy/britishgas

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.

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