Senior Finance Business Partner

Salary banding: £62,210 - £80,000 per annum

Experience: Expert

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Head of Finance Business Partnering

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

This role in 3 words: Bold, Tenacious, Resilient 

Top 3 qualities for this role: Stakeholder Engagement. Collaborative. Decision maker.

This role in a nutshell:

You will collaborate with stakeholders, developing compelling insight and presentations that influence partners 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. Your focus on delivering the right message and. 

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.

You’ll be a successful Senior Finance Business Partner here at OVO if you…

• Finance professional with experience of solving business issues of similar scale and complexity.
• Ability to Interpret and assimilate multiple data sources to provide meaningful insight and appropriate recommendations and clear actions.
• Effectively communicating financial performance to operational colleagues to embed financial understanding within the business.
• Influence strategy and translate this into actionable programmes, opportunities or activities that result in improved profitability or risk mitigation.
• Able to manage multiple complex projects/processes simultaneously Commercially focused on ability to make fair returns from our customers.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £62,210 and £80,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health

With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more.

For your wellbeing

With gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more.

For your lifestyle

With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations.

For your home 

Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers.

For your commute

Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans.

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you! If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.