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We’ve been in Britain’s homes for over 200 years. But at British Gas, we’ve never been more excited about the future.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Commercial Finance Manager to join the BG Services & Solutions finance team.

This key role is primarily focused on partnering the commercial, pricing and sales teams responsible for the Home installs business (c.105k installs per year, >£350m revenue) to deliver both in year targets, but also the change required to meet a challenging Strategic growth plan over the next 5yrs. This will involve close working across the team to ensure the financial impacts of commercial propositions and decisions are understood end to end as well as working with finance colleagues to ensure the right reporting and insight is in place to support the business in planning and understanding performance.

The successful candidate must be able to challenge thinking, business performance, and be able to work through accounting consequences of new ideas. As a result, the role holder will work closely with both the business and teams across Finance.

Location - Windsor or Stockport with flexible homeworking

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in the business and Finance Operations/Group
• Understand business strategy and its translation into financial impacts, and support its effective communication across Finance
• Develop deep understanding of key drivers of revenue and costs, cashflow, and risks and opportunities and be conversant with the translation of commercial issues into financial impacts
• Support the wider finance team and business by providing robust, insight and analysis to drive improvements in financial performance
• Support Transformation activities through design and delivery of changes to forecasting/reporting methodologies, to drive greater understanding, efficiency and standardisation
• Co-ordinate the production of standard finance deliverables to the agreed format, timeline and quality. These will be supported by clear and focused messaging that supports the business area objectives
• Act as part of the first line of defence in the identification and management of risks

Plan and Monitor the Business

• Regularly review and report performance against Group Annual Plan & latest forecast, working with the 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
• Translate financial business performance into clear reporting content (for inclusion in MBRs and FPRs etc).
• Undertake bespoke reporting and demonstrate the usefulness of reports and analysis

Provide Decision Support

• Support and influence decisions, empowering the business to self-serve appropriate data to inform decisions independently
• Carry out non-standard / bespoke analysis to support business decision making
• Identify performance improvement interventions and design means of implementing associated changes. Facilitate relevant parts of the business to implement changes
• Support the senior management in reviewing investments and develop means of articulating value of investment, facilitating and leading relevant parts of the business to deliver business cases

Who are we looking for?

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA Accounting qualification and relevant PQE

Work Experience

Previous commercial finance experience in a large organisation would be desirable, including:

• Communication of analysis and insight across the business
• Finance/ business partnering experience
• Excellent commercial acumen and a strategic thinking, able to support the business in making critical decisions
• Strong communication, capable of building trust and influencing decision making when needed
• Building financial models, creating robust forecasts and budgets
• Track record of process improvement
• Experience in decision support and investment appraisal

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.