Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in our Perth or Glasgow office
Salary: £58,100 - £87,100 + 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
This is an exciting opportunity to join SSE as a senior Finance Business Partner supporting our IT function. Working closely with senior leaders across IT and Finance, you'll provide valuable insight, challenge and support to help shape strategic decisions and drive business performance.
You'll play a key role in building trusted relationships, enabling informed investment decisions, maintaining strong financial control, and helping to embed effective, forward-thinking financial processes. This is a highly collaborative role where you'll influence across a broad stakeholder group while contributing to a supportive, inclusive and continuously improving culture.
You will
- Deliver clear, insightful financial analysis and commentary to support IT and Finance leadership in making informed decisions.
- Identify financial risks, opportunities and emerging pressures, working collaboratively with stakeholders to develop effective action plans.
- Lead the financial evaluation of investment opportunities, including business case development, governance sign-off and benefits realisation.
- Develop and maintain a trusted IT performance scorecard, bringing together both financial and operational measures to support decision-making.
- Drive continuous improvement across financial planning, reporting and management information processes.
You have
- A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience in a business partnering environment.
- Proven experience in finance business partnering, ideally gained within IT or a large, complex organisation.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience managing cost bases, evaluating investments and tracking benefits realisation.
- Experience developing and enhancing financial processes, controls and governance frameworks.
- Excellent relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and support senior stakeholders in a constructive and collaborative way.
About SSE
SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years 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 Janet.Gossman@sse.com / 01738 351816 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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