Job title: Finance Analyst – British Gas Zero
Company: Centrica
Job description: We’ve been keeping Britain warm for over 200 years. Today we power 1 in 3 homes in the UK – but supplying energy is just part of what we do.
We’re on a mission to make the UK’s homes greener and more energy efficient. With clever tech like Hive thermostats, heat pumps, solar panels and EV chargers, we’re making it cheaper and easier to reduce your home’s carbon-footprint. With our new PeakSave programme, we’re actively rewarding better energy use too.
Our nationwide team of 6,500 engineers are energy efficiency experts – offering practical ways to make homes more sustainable.
To help us with our mission we need a brilliant Finance Analyst – British Gas Zero. You’ll bring bags of energy, know-how and passion to our family of door-opening brands, including British Gas and Hive. And you’ll join a team who are just as focused delivering on fantastic results as you are. We are looking for people with a passionate belief in the importance of Net Zero.
This is an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified Financial 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. The role has potential to progress to Finance Manager within 12 months dependent on performance.
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 to create value through good decision making, and commercial understanding of the business drivers.
Key Accountabilities:
- 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 an advocate of standardisation and automation embedding improvements in team efficiency and increased insight for the business to make better decisions
- 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
- Support the Net Zero Finance partners with producing the monthly reporting for the Net Zero business
- Carry out non-standard / bespoke analysis to support business decision making
- Identify performance improvement interventions and design means of implementing associated changes
- Support the business development team on business cases for new growth ideas
- Support group finance, strategy and M&A on potential strategic growth options to accelerate Net Zero
Who are we looking for?
- 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
- Possess the ability to interrogate, analyse and derive insight from data
We are proud to be recognised as a disability-confident employer. Our customers come from a variety of different backgrounds, and so do we. We hire great people from all walks of life, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue championing inclusivity while investing in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world for everyone. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised by The Times for being one of the Top 50 Employers for Women.
Our people are the beating heart of our business. We are incredibly proud of our commitment to being FlexFirst. From childcare to furry friends, we listened to our people and understood that they work best when they are comfortable and have a flexible working model that suits their individual needs. We embrace the opportunity to give our colleagues a choice to work from anywhere whilst still ensuring they can connect and engage with their teams through office days, employee networks and virtual events.
We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows;
- Competitive salary and bonus potential
- Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
- Pension scheme
- 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
We are committed to creating a cleaner and greener future. And we’re making big changes to help us get there. That means cutting customers’ emissions and our own to reach net zero. And because our people are the beating heart of our business, we will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better world for everyone. As part of our reforestation project with WeForest, for every new employee that joins our family, we plant trees in underprivileged areas in Tanzania to offer farming and wildlife economy opportunities for locals.
#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.
Expected salary:
Location: Windsor, Berkshire
Job date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:43:33 GMT
