Senior Finance Business Partner - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Role OVO-View

Team: Finance

Location: Bristol or London

Salary banding: £60,000 - £80,000

Experience: Mid-level

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Reporting to: Head of Finance Partnering

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Engaging. Ownership. Decision-maker

Top 3 qualities for this role: Communication. Organisation. Resilience

 

Where you’ll work:

Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person. 

This role will be based at either our London or Bristol hub only, however travel between all hubs, Bristol, London and Glasgow will be expected.. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero and every role we’re hiring plays their own part in our mission.

This role in a nutshell:

You will collaborate with stakeholders, developing compelling insight and presentations that influence stakeholders on the path to value creation. You’ll support with pragmatic problem solving and be seen as a responsible thought leader in finance who is unafraid to challenge the business on course correction. You’ll be forward thinking and be able to anticipate, challenge and plan for changes within financial outlooks. 

You’ll be self sufficient, make the harder judgement calls and know when to escalate. You will understand the competitive landscape and bring a financial lens to strategic decision making & influence, and encourage scalable solutions with focus on long term financial health.

If you lead a team, you will enable rapid growth and identify areas for development. You’ll remain responsible but delegate responsibility and foster empowered thinking within a controlled framework / guiding set of principles.

Your key outcomes will be:

Partnering

• Partner with C-suite and LTs (VPs, Directors, HoDs) providing financial insight and challenge into strategic and tactical decisions as well as past business performance.
• Maintain a monthly cadence for an outlook, integrating a robust view of R&Os to ensure a "no surprises" environment for the LT. Connecting with the Forecast & Planning, People & Procurement teams for full, well rounded reviews. Advising the business on course correction if actual costs stray from budget, including working with the OVO leadership team to devise plans to converge back to budget.
• Lead the Monthly Business Review (MBR) process, presenting financial performance, outlooks, and strategic recommendations to the C-suite and LT.
• Support the C-suite and LT in tracking and aligning their financial outlooks against OKRs, ensuring operational delivery remains financially viable.
• Working collaboratively with senior business leaders to prepare analysis to support and constructively challenge financial decision making. This is both as requested by the business, and also ad hoc where the business partnering team spots potential opportunities.

Budgeting

• Contribute to the financial annual budgeting process, working between the Business and FP&A to ensure robust financial plans are delivered in line with agreed timescales, balancing stretch and credibility. 
• Working with the people partnering team on production and delivery of company wide resource plans.
• Working with the business through annual medium term strategic outlook processes to develop 3-5 year forecasts, and in particular supporting business leaders to develop industry leading team structures which allow for best-in-class operational leverage.
• Understands and devises opportunities for cost base improvements, and presents these to the finance leadership team and the OVO leadership team.

Investment appraisal & cost governance

• Owning and managing the investment appraisal process, including business casing, pre-investment appraisal and post-investment reviews. Se