Finance Analyst

Location - Flexible with some travel to our sites to attend meetings

Salary - £39k - £55k dependant on experience

At British Gas, we have a huge opportunity to help customers, and the nation, prepare for a net zero future and support them through a once in a generation cost-of-living crisis.

We’re one of the best-known services companies in the country. We have a compelling set of low carbon solutions for customers, a family of door-opening brands and we’re really excited about the future

As a Finance Analyst (Business Energy Financial Control) you’ll focus on providing support to the Financial Control Manager and Financial Control Director, to ensure that the highest standards of financial control are applied across Business Energy.

You’ll have allocated responsibilities for financial accounting, financial controls, financial governance, and financial integrity within Business Energy. You will provide robust and accurate financial reporting of current and historical performance.

In addition, you’ll work with the business teams and wider finance teams, facilitating interaction and knowledge transfer where required, between the business teams and wider finance teams.

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide support to the Finance Manager and the Director, Financial Control on all financial, accounting and regulatory matters across UKB Energy Supply

• Support the production and reporting of current/historical activity across Business Energy including performance of all month end and post-month end accounting activities

• Support the wider team to review and report performance of Business Energy against targets

• Understand, reflect, and apply the appropriate Centrica accounting policies for Business Energy

• Support the twice-yearly external audit of Business Energy and the annual preparation of statutory accounts

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in the business and Finance

• Develop understanding of key drivers of revenue and costs, cashflow, and risks and opportunities and be conversant with the translation of commercial issues into financial impacts

• Support Transformation activities through delivery of changes to financial control methodologies, to drive greater understanding, efficiency, and standardisation

• Undertake bespoke reporting and analysis as required

To succeed in this role, you should have:

Financial control experience (i.e. audit, financial management, financial accounting/control), with a track record of process improvement. Knowledge/Experience of SAP/BW is preferable as is experience of Microsoft power tools.

You should also be educated to Degree Level Education or equivalent and hold ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified/Finalist.

Competencies:

• Strong attention to detail, problem solving and reconciliations

• Flexible and adaptable working in a small team for a highly regulated industry

• Experience of analysing and reconciling data, identifying, and resolving issues, ensuring process robustness

• Highly proficient at Excel, with a proven track record of designing, maintaining, and updating spreadsheet-based reporting

• Ability to build and deliver robust month-end reports and accurate thorough reconciliations- variance analysis and explanation

• Understanding of financial control and risk and control methodology

• Influencing stakeholders with strong stakeholder management skills

• Motivated by continuous improvement and delivering high quality outputs

Benefits include great pension & bonus scheme, Healthcare plan (which you can extend to immediate family), Energy Allowance discount, Online GP24 virtual service, Eye test voucher, Group Income Protection, Life Assurance & Accident Insurance plus much more!

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.