Financial Reporting Analyst

This is an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified finance analyst, to join the Net Zero finance team at the heart of this exciting new business. Through British Gas Zero, we install, optimise and service green devices and upgrade customer's homes to reduce emissions, improve resilience and reduce their energy consumption.

This key role provides financial reporting, analysis supporting the business teams across of the key areas in Net Zero Ventures, a £100m revenue business today with strong growth aspirations across Retrofit (Heatpumps, Insulation, Solar), Home Energy Management (Hive, DSR, EV) and Hydrogen. This will involve close working across the team to make sure the financial impacts of changes in drivers are understood as well as ensuring the right reporting and measures are in place to support the business. It is an exciting opportunity to work closely with a growth area of the to create value through good decision making, and commercial understanding of the business drivers.

Fixed Term Contract - 12 months

Location - Windsor / Flexible Home Working

Accountabilities

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in the Finance teams as well as the business
• Develop deep understanding of key drivers of the cost base through the lens of KPIs and linking those to financial performance
• Support the wider finance team and business by providing robust, insight and analysis to drive improvements in financial performance
• Be a champion of standardisation and automation embedding improvements in team efficiency and increased insight for the business to make better decisions
• Possess the ability to interrogate, analyse and derive insight from data

Plan and Monitor the Business

• Regularly review and report performance against Group Annual Plan & latest forecast, working with the Net Zero Ventures 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
• Drive design and delivery of changes to forecasting/reporting methodologies, to embed changes in how the business operates or the availability of new data or tools

Experience and Qualifications

• Accounting qualification
• Previous business partnering / FP&A finance experience in a large organisation including:
• Communication of analysis and insight across the business
• Building financial models, creating robust forecasts and budgets
• Reporting monthly financial performance with insight into key drivers and
• Track record of process improvement and experience in dealing with large datasets
• Strong excel and ideally use of Microsoft tools like PBI

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