Group FP&A Lead Accountant
Initial 6-month contract – potentially up to 12 months
£450 - £550 per day – Inside IR35
Coventry Based – Hybrid working (1-2 days from home a week)
Role Objective:
This role will work within the Group FP&A team to deliver:
- High quality and insightful financial reporting and analysis to support Board, Executive committee and business decision making.
- Interim and year-end reporting and analysis.
- Support to the business planning and budgeting process to ensure budgets are underpinned and deliverable; and
- To be a knowledgeable, trusted, and challenging financial advisor to stakeholders across all business areas.
Key Accountabilities:
- Key point of contact for any capital and infrastructure renewal expenditure (IRE) queries, working closely with the Tactical asset planning and business partnering teams.
- Provide insightful narrative of capex and IRE month end position and lead on managing any risks and opportunities.
- Lead the monthly project forecast process facilitating a cross-team discussion across various finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Monitoring of the capitalisation rates on a regular basis with detailed analysis to explain any deviations
- Dedicated FP&A contact for depreciation working closely with the capital accounting team to understand in month actuals position and full year forecast as well as any risks and opportunities
- Business partner for Group corporate functions including Investor relations and Tax.
- Interface into the Investor Relations, Treasury, Regulation and Strategy teams to understand external stakeholder expectations, requirements and the wider commercial landscape.
- Key role in the year end process, co-ordinating financial and performance reports and analysis for Investor Relations, the CFO and STEC
Experience:
To succeed in this role, it is expected that you will have:
Essential:
- Experience working as part of a team and individually to meet tight deadlines.
- Experience collaborating with various business areas to drive improvements in performance.
- Building effective working relationships with financial and operational areas.
- Experience preparing high quality financial information and presenting this in a clear and understandable format.
- Strong excel (pivot tables/V Look Ups) and power point skills.
Desirable
- Experience using Tagetik, SAP ECC and SAP BW.
- Knowledge of Water industry regulatory framework.
- Understanding of key forecasting principles.
- Experience business partnering operational teams.
- Experience working in a large, listed company involving consolidation.
*Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted*