Finance Business Partner

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�� Our Perks

Values-driven culture – we’re really proud of our culture. 

🙌 Drive your own experience 

• Personalised Learning and Development Budget
• Hybrid working hours – Each team has their own Smart Working Charter that empowers you to do your work in the best way you can

✨ Empowering you to be your most authentic self 

• 25 Holiday Days + your local bank holidays
• 1 Birthday day – it only happens once a year!
• 3 So Giving Days - spend these days giving back to your chosen cause
• Religious Celebrations Leave
• Mental Healthcare – Sessions with Unmind
• Enhanced Family Leave

So Energy

Who we are

So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 300,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). But we’re not done. We’re on the road to a net zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.

We want to do the best we can for our customers, each other, and our planet, so we’ve created a workplace that's encouraging, supportive, and offers the opportunity for growth. As a company, we live by six core values that guide everything we do:

• Clear
• Honest
• Ambitious
• Inquisitive
• Caring
• Sustainable

The Role

Finance Business Partner at SO ENERGY

Reporting into our CFO Mark Eldridge ğŸ‘‹, we’re looking for a Finance Business Partner to join the team. 

We are looking for a Finance Business Partner to support our growing finance team whose purpose will be to build relationships with business stakeholders and support the delivery of financial and operational targets, whilst maintaining governance and controls.

Working with the existing business partner and wider finance team this role will ensure the accurate and meaningful delivery of monthly financials to all areas of the business, ensuring key variances are addressed efficiently and being the conduit between finance and the wider business.

You will engage with different parts of the business ensuring financial performance is understood by non-financial colleagues whilst managing risks and capturing opportunities.

Working with the Finance team and wider business to help create accurate and informed budgets and forecasts you will ensure that each cost line is challenged and assumptions understood.

What you’ll be getting up to:

• Ensuring financial KPI and business targets are met through education and effective business partnering.
• Acting as key partner to all areas of the business, proactively addressing challenges and identifying opportunities.
• Understanding key business drivers and results, ensuring these are managed with business stakeholders.
• Providing advice and guidance on financial matters and commercial decision making.
• Support the Procurement Manager in business case and contract evaluation, maintaining a register of all contracts, and proactive engagement with the business on contracting requirements
• Supporting the month-end process ensuring the accuracy of the management accounts.
• Understand key revenue and expenditure variances to forecasts
• Identifying strengths and weaknesses, understanding and driving operational efficiencies.
• Using data and benchmarking to enhance performance.
• Support business reviews and contribute through clear explanation of operational variances and support problem solving.

Support the preparation of budgets and forecasts by feeding business insights in to financial models whilst providing challenge to assumptions and costs.

This role will be a great fit if:

• Ability to understand monthly financials, process and the impact of key variances.
• Demonstrate the ability to translate the financials to non-financial stakeholders.
• Proven records of building key relationships across business stakeholders.
• Ability to influence key business processes and decisions.
• Commercially astute with a clear understanding of business drivers, energy experience advantageous but not essential.
• Well-organised and able to operate in a changing environment.
• Understanding of controls within financial environment and ensuring key processes are followed.
• Strive for continuous improvement, seeking opportunities and managing risks.
• Track record of working with stakeholder to solve problems
• Recognised accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don’t let our role description hold you back, get applying!

Want to tailor your application? 

Hiring Process

1. Talent Screen - Senior Talent Partner
2. Hiring Manager Interview - CFO & Financial Controller 

Support – If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Our Values

We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.

Clear - The energy industry can be pretty complex so we strive to provide clear communication to our customers and colleagues

Honest - Transparency is key, Whether that's providing clear bills to our customers or trusting our staff to do the right thing.

Ambitious - All of us are ambitious about the future of So Energy and what we can contribute to it.

Inquisitive - We are also questioning the Status Quo to see if there is a better way to do things for our customers

Caring - We care about the work we are doing, our customers and our colleagues
Sustainable - As a renewable energy company we are providing sustainable products but we also care about sustainable careers. That's why learning and continuous development is so important to us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At So Energy, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It’s essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn’t just an initiative at So Energy. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.