The Finance Business Partner (FBP) plays a critical role in supporting senior stakeholders across the Energy business by providing high‑quality financial insight, challenge, and decision support. Acting as the primary link between Finance and the business, the role owns forecasting, performance analysis, and commercial insight for assigned business areas.
The FBP works closely with operational and commercial leaders to drive cost consciousness, value creation, and accountability, while ensuring robust financial control, accurate reporting, and effective planning processes.
Key Responsibilities
Business Partnering & Strategic Insight
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders and their teams, providing both support and constructive challenge
- Promote a culture of cost control, value enhancement, and financial accountability
- Use a deep understanding of current and future business activity to provide insight and analysis that supports strategic decision‑making
- Support key investment, pricing, and operational decisions through scenario and sensitivity analysis
FP&A, Planning & Performance Management
- Lead all key financial planning and analysis activities for assigned business areas, including budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans
- Design and deliver a suite of relevant KPIs and reporting formats that link operational and financial performance
- Own the risks and opportunities process, ensuring key items are identified, quantified, managed, and clearly communicated in forecasts and reporting
- Continuously improve the accuracy, relevance, and timeliness of forecasts through driver‑based approaches
Financial Performance & Month‑End Reporting
- Ensure month‑end results accurately reflect business activity, working closely with management accountants to improve underlying processes
- Prepare clear, commercial commentary explaining performance, key drivers, and impacts versus target
- Prepare and present monthly performance packs at senior leadership and business unit review meetings
- Provide oversight of capex spend to ensure budgets, governance, and business case approvals are adhered to
Process Improvement & Control
- Implement and improve processes that support effective financial control and administration of the business
- Lead the ongoing development of FP&A processes to embed best practice and professionalism
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting content, format, and systems‑based outputs, and see these through to implementation
- Ensure reporting is timely, accurate, compliant, and scalable to support future growth
Wider Finance & ESG Responsibilities
- Manage regular reporting requirements for internal and external stakeholders where applicable (e.g. Ofgem, banks, trading partners)
- Support the Group Environmental Policy and its associated targets, including the ambition to achieve net‑zero outcomes