Finance Business Partner

Job Description

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

About You

Essential

• Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Strong commercial and business acumen, with the ability to translate data into actionable insight
• Proven experience influencing senior stakeholders and challenging assumptions constructively
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial information to non‑finance audiences

Desirable

• Experience in the energy, utilities, or other asset‑intensive or regulated industries
• Experience with driver‑based forecasting, scenario modelling, and rolling forecasts
• Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, Adaptive Insights, or similar visualisation and planning tools
• Exposure to large, complex data sets across multiple systems

What's in it for you...

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Volunteering Day
• Hybrid Working
• Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility Statement

The fast moving nature of the business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to utilise our people in the best possible way at all times and helps our colleagues to make the best contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's overall greenest energy company - it's more than just green energy - the breadth and depth of our work on green issues is unmatched. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we have built windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.