Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations : Reading or Dublin (there will be regular travel)
Salary: £68,100 - £102,100 / €90,300 - €135,500 + car /car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available
The role
The Senior Finance Business Partner – Business Energy provides senior commercial finance leadership to the Business Energy GB business, partnering commercial and operational leaders to support profitable growth, disciplined performance management and value-based decision-making. The role provides insight, challenge and financial governance across pricing, customer economics, margin, cost, working capital, credit risk and investment decisions, ensuring Finance is embedded in commercial decision-making and performance delivery and business choices are aligned to SSE Customer and SSE Group priorities.
You will
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Partner with senior leaders across Business Energy GB, providing insightful financial guidance, constructive challenge and commercial expertise to shape strategic and operational decisions.
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Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning, ensuring financial assumptions are robust, commercially credible and aligned with customer, market and business priorities.
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Turn financial performance into actionable insight, identifying the key drivers behind margin, customer volumes, bad debt, cost-to-serve, operating costs and working capital to inform confident decision-making.
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Shape investment and commercial decisions by evaluating customer propositions, digital and systems investment, transformation and other strategic initiatives, balancing opportunity, return and risk.
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Translate strategy into sustainable growth and value, providing financial leadership across customer growth and retention, proposition economics, portfolio choices and operational efficiency.
You have
- Fully qualified accountant with substantial post-qualification experience in commercial finance, business partnering, financial planning or performance leadership roles.
- Strong understanding of business energy supply market and B2B customer economics, pricing, margin, cost-to-serve, credit risk and working capital drivers.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear insight, constructive challenge and commercially grounded recommendations.
- Advanced financial modelling, scenario analysis and performance insight capability.
- Ability to operate across Finance, commercial, operational and Group stakeholders in a complex, fast-moving business environment.
About SSE
SSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.
We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.
Our investment plan will see SSE invest £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030.
Our Finance teams create value for all SSE business areas and play a key role in fulfilling our obligations as a FTSE100 UK-listed company. In a highly regulated and competitive environment, their experts keep us powering ahead by identifying efficiencies, providing advice and optimising our financial strategies.
Flexible benefits to fit your life
Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.
Work with an equal opportunity employer
SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact francesca.palmer@sse.com / 01738 344763 to discuss how we can support you.
We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.
Ready to apply?
Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.
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