Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

Windsor with Flex First hybrid working

Overview

At Centrica Business Solutions (CBS) we provide integrated energy solutions that deliver cost efficiency, resilience and accelerate our customers' journeys to a low carbon future. We serve business and public sector organisations, increasingly focusing on delivering decarbonisation of power, heating and transport through our portfolio of solutions.

This role functionally supports our UK and Ireland business where we build, operate, and maintain clean energy assets to help large public sector and industrial customers decarbonise. This includes sourcing green energy, providing project design and delivery expertise, financing options, and industry leading operational capabilities to deliver energy efficiency and save customers money, helping them balance the demands of planet and profit.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, Services Europe, you will gain valuable experience working within a large collaborative corporate structure.
Your primary responsibility will be the consolidated reporting of the CBS Services business in SAP, employing best-in-class standards of financial control. You'll oversee financial accounting, controls, governance and financial integrity.
As the vital link between our European finance managers and the group reporting team, you'll uphold exceptional reporting standards while providing concise and insightful commentary. Your expertise will be key in driving the consistency of processes and delivering on our financial control and strategy.
Lastly, you'll identify opportunities for the business and actively pursue simplification, automation and integration of processes to drive efficiencies throughout the finance team. This role offers the unique opportunity to contribute significantly to the finance team through collaboration, shaping and influencing financial discussions.

The Role

Some of your accountabilities will include:

• Consolidation and reporting of financial data across the CBS International Services business into SAP, including group eliminations and cash flow analysis

• Ownership of the P&L, cash flow and balance sheet reporting of the CBS central cost centre structure, including accountability for legal entity cost allocations.

• Ownership of the consolidated month-end accounting processes including greenlighting, inter-company mis-match reporting, BU check errors and submission of CBS numbers to Group Finance

• Month-end accountability, to include journal posting, PO accruals, provisions, capex accounting, functional allocations, commentary on monthly performance and query resolution

• Conducting balance sheet reviews and reconciliations, pro-actively identifying and communicating risks and opportunities upwards.

• Supporting audit and statutory account production for CBS legal entities.

• Applying appropriate accounting policies across CBS, including IFRS 15 and IFRS 16 for customer contracts.

• Pro-actively identifying improvements to our processes and opportunities for simplification, standardisation, automation and integration of financial systems. Drive towards automated and enhanced reporting, leveraging Office365 tools (e.g. Power Query, Power BI)

• Supporting finance systems work and data migration as part of the CBS systems strategy

The Person

We are looking for a fully qualified accountant from a recognised body (ACA, ACCA, ICAS, CIMA) who has experience of financial analysis and forecasting.

You'll be adept at financial systems such as SAP coupled with Excel and PowerBI and strong attention to detail. It will also help if you understand the energy industry but it is not essential. Problem solving and resilience are also core capabilities.

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