Finance Business Partner
3 days ago
**Finance Business Partner**
**Job details**
**Salary**: £50,000
**Business Area**:Finance
**Location**: Newport, South Wales
**Contract Type**:12-months fixed term contract
**Working hours/pattern**:37 hours Monday to Friday
**Who are we?**
We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.
**What we’re looking for?**
We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner on a 12-month Fixed-term contract to be responsible for improving the current financial business-as-usual controls and reporting across a number of key finance reporting areas. The role will focus firstly on operational improvements, and then move onto improving WWU’s key financial reporting (external and internal) controls and processes.
**We’ll trust you to**:
- Work closely with the NEMS Management Accountant to deliver month end duties, including journal posting for accruals and prepayments, and staff capitalisation.
- Help design and develop reporting and analysis, including unit cost reporting and price volume analysis for Network Services and Emergency and Metering Services.
- Roll out newly designed reports to Technical Managers and their support teams; provide support and guidance as required.
- Support the maintenance of newly created MI, including detailed regional reports.
- Support the reconciliation, reporting, and analysis of Operational and Overhead spend.
- Review and reconcile staff capitalisation, including regular review with Senior Managers.
You can read a full job description **here**.**
**You’ll need to have**:
- Part qualified in professional accounting qualification
- Full UK driving license
- Strong accounting skills - previous management accounting experience
- Ability to work on their own and confident to ask questions and challenge work
- Advanced Excel skills, Access desirable
- High level of concern for order, quality, and delivery to strict deadline
- Highly numerate and skilled at complex problem solving
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Use of financial systems (SAP user preferable desirable but not essential),
- Knowledge of non-financial systems, data-processes, and activities
- Knowledge of financial policies and procedures.
- Good presentation skills
We would also love to hear about anything else you feel you could add or bring to the role
**What’s in it for you?**
- A £50,000 competitive salary
- Hybrid working
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
- 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
- “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
- Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
- Enhanced pay for parental leave
- Retail discounts and cashback scheme
- Annual salary review
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Company Sick Pay
- In-house Occupational Health Team
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Comprehensive training
The way we do things
Wales & West Utilities is a values-based business.
Interested?
If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you
To apply, click the link below.
**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract
**Salary**: £50,000.00 per year
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