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Why choose us?
Choosing to work for SMS means choosing to make a difference. We are changing how businesses and consumers use energy for the better, helping achieve a greener, sustainable, and more affordable energy system for everyone. Through our range of innovative energy solutions, we are delivering the future of smart energy – working closely with private and public sector partners we are playing a critical role in transforming and decarbonising the UK economy by 2050.
What's in it for you?
* 25 personal holiday days per year (with additional 8 public holidays) increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years of service (includes options to buy and sell).
* Hybrid working options.
* Automatic enrolment into our Employee Ownership scheme.
* Enhanced Maternity leave. Paternity and Adoption leave.
* 24/7 free and confidential employee assistance service.
* Medicash health plan offers a wide variety of benefits from cashback on everyday healthcare treatments like optical, dental and physio treatments. Discounted gym memberships and free 24/7 online GP.
* Life Insurance (4 x annual salary).
* Pension matching scheme (up to 5% of salary).
* Developing our people is important to us - we support and encourage development by offering internal and external accredited courses, secondments and study support.
What's the role?
Reporting to the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, as Group Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, you will deliver and execute the FP&A practices across the Group. In doing so, you will closely collaborate and business partner with stakeholders from across the Group, including Divisional FCs, FDs and MDs, as well as our Private Equity backer, KKR.
You will co-ordinate and deliver budgeting, planning and strategy processes, helping to monitor performance against these and drive accountability across the organisation. You must be intellectually curious and detail-oriented, with a desire to continually improve financial and operational analysis to help inform and drive better decision making.
You will be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of all forecasting and budgeting for the Group, including timetable management, helping to prepare and present analysis to executive management, prepare supporting Board papers, and collaborating with the Director of FP&A and Executive Management to ensure appropriate targets across the business are set and monitored.
You will prepare, develop and assess ad-hoc financial and non-financial analysis to inform and drive decision making – working closely with Operations and Commercial functions. This will include helping to evaluate the quantitative and qualitative aspects of investment opportunities or business cases, as well as helping to support on M&A and other Strategic opportunities.
You will work in collaboration with the wider finance team to ensure messaging and reporting is consistent across the Group.
This role is offered on a Fixed Term Contract of 12 months. It is on a hybrid working basis, consisting of 2 days in office and 3 days at home on average. It is contracted at 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Key Responsibilities:
Some of the key responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Co-ordinate and deliver the yearly budgeting processes covering timing, communications and reporting.
* Manage and co-ordinate the timetables for the production of budgets and regular reforecasts for the Group, ensuring consistency of approach and alignment with strategic planning processes.
* Prepare & review of reforecasting of the business - formally on a quarterly basis.
* Monitoring of actuals against budget / reforecast to help identify trends, opportunities and risks within the business, to help inform future forecasts and to challenge and drive accountability within functions and divisions.
* Analysis of both financial and non-financial information, identifying patterns, trends and opportunities for business growth or cost reduction.
* Responsible for regularly updating and reviewing the Group’s long term Corporate Model, seeking ways to simplify and improve accuracy of forecasting.
* Provide business partnering support to the senior leadership team and the Group Reporting team whilst establishing strong and effective relationships across all levels in the business.
To be considered for this role, we would love you to have/be:
* CA/ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified.
* The ability to perform the essential functions of the job typically required through related experience.
* Good analytical skills – ability to research, compile, analyse and interpret large data sets efficiently to provide insightful, accurate analysis of complex financial data.
* Strong financial modelling and investment appraisal skills including advance Excel skills.
* Knowledge of financial reporting systems (preferably D365) is a plus but not essential.
* Robust accounting knowledge and a good understanding of the finance function in a large group and/or PE backed setting.
* A can-do attitude and strong organisational skills, with the ability to work to deadlines and prioritise work-load to deliver high quality work is essential.
* Good communication skills, confidence to get out into the business to articulate financial matters to a non-financial audience and build effective working relationships across the Group.
* The ability to take the initiative and drive continual improvement of processes, practices and analysis.
* Strong presentation skills, able to use PowerPoint or similar products to develop high quality reports appropriate to a range of audiences.
* Experience of problem solving and implementing process improvements, particularly in relation to internal reporting (e.g. efficient design of Excel reports).
* Experience of M&A beneficial.
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