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Centrica is a leading energy services and solutions provider founded on a 200-year heritage of serving people. We are the UK’s biggest retailer of zero carbon electricity, serving around 10 million customers across the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe through brands including British Gas, supported by around 9,000 highly trained engineers and technicians. Centrica’s purpose of helping customers live sustainably, simply and affordably drives our strategy and our People and Planet Plan.

We have a range of exciting opportunities to work in business facing finance roles, supporting senior management in our energy supply, and energy services and solutions activities.

The roles focus on providing support to Senior Finance Partners and operational and commercial managers to create value by improving the quality of decisions and ensure that Business strategy delivers the highest financial benefit at an acceptable level of risk. This will be achieved through the development and maintenance of robust reporting and analysis, planning and forecasting.

Location - Windsor or Stockport with flexible home working

The Role

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in the business and across finance
• Develop understanding of business strategy and its translation into financial impacts
• Develop understanding of key drivers of profit and cashflow, risks and opportunities, and be able to translate commercial performance into financial impact
• Provide robust insight and analysis to drive improvements in financial performance
• Support finance transformation activity through delivery of improvements in forecasting and reporting
• Produce standard finance deliverables to the agreed timeline and quality, supported by clear and focused explanations and messaging
• Regularly report performance against plans and forecasts, supporting business review of financial and operational variances to identify corrective actions
• Support delivery of accurate, efficient and transparent financial plans and forecasts
• Carry out non-standard / bespoke analysis to support business decision making and identify performance improvement interventions

The Person

• Recognised accountancy qualification or passed finalist
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to pro-actively develop positive and highly effective working relationships
• Motivated by continuous improvement and delivering high quality outputs
• Ability to identify a problem and think through an approach to develop a solution
• Experience of providing commercial analysis and evaluation in a financial planning and analysis or business partnering role
• Strong IT skills (e.g. SAP, Excel, Power BI)
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to summarise complex data and matters and communicate effectively
• An interest in automation and use of new tools to analyse data and streamline processes
• Capable of managing multiple tasks in a high-pressure environment and working to tight deadlines
• Ability to identify, assess and analyse organisation wide operational risks and controls

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.