Finance Support Business Partner

3 months ago

Perth, United Kingdom SSE Full time

SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £20.5 billion in low carbon projects to 2027, we have significant growth plans and are well on our way to achieving our ambition to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come.

Join us on our journey to net zero and help us power change.

**About the Role**

**Base Location**: Perth

**Salary**: Competitive based on experience + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing, and family.

**Working Pattern**: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The Finance Business Partner is focused on performance improvement, business analysis and insight, strategic business planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities. Working in a matrix structure, this role will provide timely and effective support and challenge to senior business stakeholders, as well as maintaining responsibility for the delivery of 5 and 10 year plans.

This role will also be responsible for management accounting, reporting and financial control in relation to specific high value P&L (Green Certificates) and balance sheet items (IT fixed assets) and will be responsible for the accurate forecasting of these items and preparation of variance analysis for monthly reporting.

**Key responsibilities for this role include**:

- Performance Improvement - Provide pro-active challenge to the business on financial performance to drive improvements and define management reporting requirements to inform decision making.
- Strategic Business Planning - Advise and influence the business on strategic planning activities from a finance perspective. Responsible for the preparation of long term forecast models.
- Business Analysis & Insight - Support Finance Director to provide finance insight and challenge to senior management.
- Budgeting & Forecasting - Coordinate the preparation and review of the annual business unit budget and monthly/ quarterly forecasting activities for agreed areas of P&L and Balance Sheet responsibility. Ensure budgets are accurate, realistic, and aligned with the broader business unit.
- Reporting - Deliver reporting and variance analysis for areas of P&L and Balance Sheet responsibility and support group level reporting and external audit requirements.
- Financial Control - Implementation, documentation, operation, and review of finance controls for areas of responsibility, ensuring that these align with standards of wider group financial control matrix.

**What do I need?**

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

- Full accounting qualification with 3+ years PQE in a Business Partner/ Finance Manager/ Management Accountant business facing role with experience of solving business issues of similar scale and complexity.
- Experience interpreting and assimilating multiple data sources, including external market data, and rendering this into meaningful insight and appropriate recommendations with clear actions.
- Ability to effectively communicate financial performance to operational colleagues to embed financial understanding within the business.
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects/ processes simultaneously.

**About our Business**

Our SSE Finance function has a key part to play in fulfilling SSE's obligations as a UK-listed company, providing expertise and services that can be shared across the SSE Group, and working in partnership with all businesses to provide services tailored to their specific needs. SSE operates in a highly regulated and increasingly competitive environment, and our role is to ensure that we gather, compile, analyse and recommend on the financial strategy for our businesses, identifying opportunities to drive efficiencies and create value for SSE now, and in the future.

**What's in it for you?**

We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

**What happens now?**

Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.

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