Description
Senior Finance Business Partner - Utilities Client
Warwick
6 months
My client is a leading energy and utilities client based in Warwick. We are currently recruiting on their behalf for a Senior Finance Business Partner. The successful candidate will provide insightful financial business partnering to a number of senior stakeholders who lead the Functions that support the business' main operations.
Responsibilities
- Own the relationship with business stakeholders, building strong rapport and trust to achieve the credibility to enable challenging discussions around performance
- Effectively manage direct reports to build a high-performing and engaged team
- Understand the financial and strategic challenges faced by your stakeholders and how these impact the various National Grid businesses.
- Help to influence stakeholders and the wider business to deliver options to meet our financial targets now and in the future.
- Provide commercial insight and industry knowledge that improves decision making, drives better business performance and enhances shareholder value
- Effectively collaborate with your Finance colleagues in the UK and US to ensure provision of consistent, high quality financial information reinforced by high quality insight and financial advice, supporting the business to deliver the right financial outcomes.
Skills and Experience
- Qualified Accountant
- Experienced Finance Business Partner with experience of working Non-Financial Managers
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an instinctive desire to collaborate and build strong and mutually trusting relationships
- Strong communication skills with the capability to articulate and pitch financial information at the appropriate level
- Excellent analytical skills and competent working with financial and qualitative data
- Strong business acumen and understanding of the wider energy industry