Business Partner – Energy Markets

Base Location:  Perth or Glasgow

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

SSE Energy Markets Finance is looking for a Finance Business Partner who will focus on performance improvement, business analysis & insight across the Energy Markets Business unit.

Reporting to Head of Business Partnering (Thermal & EM), you will be responsible for supporting SSE Energy Markets Commercial teams and the Finance Director (EM). You will provide financial insight and analysis to enable improved decision making and support improved business planning. You will be responsible for ownership of the Energy Markets financial plans and budgets within SSE Energy Markets and will provide support and challenge to senior stakeholders across the wider business.

In addition, you will have wider responsibilities to work across the Group’s Energy Business’s (Thermal, Energy Customer Solution, SSE Renewables and SSE Enterprise) to provide financial insight into market wide commodity exposures and ensure complex portfolio impacts are understood by senior stakeholders across the group.  

You will be required to work closely with a range of stakeholders within the finance community, including teams responsible for Financial Reporting and Financial Control. You will ensure that impacts of Energy Market interactions are incorporated fully into key financial deliverables, including budgeting, forecasting and annual external reporting.

Relationships built with commercial and energy market experts across the Group’s Energy Business will be critical in delivering key management information to ensure understanding of financial risks and opportunities.

You will be responsible for

- Finance Business Partnering: Provide strategic finance support to SSE Energy Markets’ Commercial and Middle Office teams, fostering strong relationships across the business.

- Performance & Risk Insight: Deliver analysis and insight into market financial performance, risks, and opportunities, including commodity exposure impacts.- Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the annual budget and in-year forecasting cycles, as well as the 5 & 10-year forecasts, ensuring stakeholder engagement and understanding.-Decision Support & Investment Analysis: Support investment cases and business planning by offering financial challenge, review, and insight to senior management.

-Reporting & Governance: Ensure consistency in finance reporting by reviewing business papers and enhancing management information for better decision-making.

You have

- A great understanding of energy markets in which SSE operate and enthusiastic curiosity about the ‘energy contest.’ 

- A full professional accountancy qualification, with over 5 years of post-qualification experience in a Business Partner / Senior Finance Manager, business-interfacing role with experience of solving business issues of similar scale and complexity.

- Ability to interpret and assimilate multiple data sources, including external market data, and rendering into meaningful insight and appropriate recommendations and clear actions

- A track record of effectively communicating financial performance to commercial colleagues to embed financial understanding within the business

- The ability to influence strategy and translate this into actionable programmes, opportunities or activities that result in improved profitability or risk mitigation

About SSE

SSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're investing around £10 million a day in homegrown energy to help power a cleaner, more secure future. Our investment will see us build the world's largest offshore wind farm and transform the grid to deliver greener electricity to millions.

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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