Finance Manager – Capex Business Partnering
Anglian Water Services
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Huntingdon • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £75,555 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Deliver financial business partnering across multiple programme and delivery areas of Anglian Water’s capital programme.
- Drive financial planning, performance, and strategic decision-making aligned with the organisation’s strategic goals and regulatory expectations.
- Support director and senior leader level stakeholders by providing high-quality financial insight, robust planning, budgeting, forecasting, and commercial analysis.
- Lead a team of finance professionals, combining business partnering, project accounting, financial planning and analysis, and financial controls.
- Ensure accurate actuals, forecasts, and budgets, delivering insight, ensuring financial integrity, mitigating risks, identifying opportunities, and supporting long-term sustainability and operational efficiency.
- Act as a trusted business partner to directors and senior leaders, providing financial guidance, challenge, and support for business cases and investment approvals.
- Design and deliver financial reports and insight, tracking and challenging delivery against financial targets and regulatory requirements.
- Champion a culture of insight, transparency, and commercial awareness in financial reporting and decision making.
Requirements
- Qualified Finance professional (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with recognised finance qualification.
- Experience in leading and developing teams, including performance management.
- Proven experience in finance business partnering in a capex/capital investment environment.
- Strong background in capex planning and forecasting, and providing insight on performance against plans and forecasts.
- Experience working cross-functionally with PMOs, project teams, and commercial functions.
- Experience in financial risk management and controls in a capital finance environment.
- Record of providing high quality reporting and analysis in capital programmes to support decision making.
- Good knowledge of financial reporting and analysis tools (e.g., Power BI, SAP).
- Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills.
- Able to use SAP, Power BI, or similar analytics platforms, including creating dashboards and reporting packs.
Benefits
- A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%
- Private healthcare for your peace of mind
- An annual bonus scheme
- The opportunity to volunteer in your local community
- 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays
- Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)
- Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle
- Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental
- Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks
- Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave
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Hard skills
financial planningbudgetingforecastingcommercial analysisfinancial controlsfinancial reportingperformance managementfinancial risk managementcapex planningcapital investment
Soft skills
stakeholder managementrelationship managementteam leadershipcommunicationinsight generationtransparencycommercial awareness
Certifications
ACACIMAACCA