Finance Manager - Capital Delivery in Slough

The Capital Finance Manager is responsible for a team supporting the capital programme delivery directors with delivery of their financial commitments, specifically delivering in line with internal business plans and governed funding. The role will lead and constructively support and challenge the teams to help drive performance, ensuring costs are well understood and optimised, providing insight and ensuring risks and opportunities are surfaced in a timely manner to drive course correction.

What you’ll be doing as a Finance Manager – Capital Delivery:

• Responsible for leading a team to partner with the financial performance outcomes of our Capital Programme - supporting the Delivery teams through the implementation of high-quality insight and KPIs, review and challenge.
• Provide the high-quality financial information that the business requires to operate effectively and efficiently, including leading and lagging levers, cost drivers, trend analysis, the so what and recommendations to assist decision making.
• Support in specific aspects of the financial reporting cycle with a critical evaluation lens applied.
• Develop relationships with other teams across the Organisation, with a real focus on cross learning and challenging the teams through continuous improvement.
• Review capital investment papers as required by the business, ensuring needs are clearly articulated and internal governance requirements are met.
• As a key financial liaison, partner with the various departments across Finance and the business to deliver end-to-end process efficiencies and improved financial awareness.
• Set up the team to support validation and reporting of the business efficiency initiatives, ensuring that the predicted benefits are cashable and correctly estimated.
• Proactively identify target opportunity areas for further efficiency, working with business stakeholders as well as the capital efficiency team within the PMO.
• Respond to ad hoc requests for analytics to provide support to stakeholders for cost visibility, regulatory matters, deep-dive investigations into financial performance, etc.
• Support proactive identification and resolution of technical accounting matters relating to the capital delivery areas. The manager will also provide support and guidance as needed for audit deliverables.

Hybrid – Reading, 36 hours a week.

What you should bring to the role:

• Accounting qualification. (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Extensive financial and analytical experience.
• Good understanding of accounting best practices and technical requirements.
• Strong Excel skillset and analytical abilities required; solid modelling and/or database skills are preferable.
• Excellent knowledge of providing financial insight, preparing annual plans, and forecasts.
• Collaborative work style, good relationship-building capabilities.
• Highly effective communication skills (listening and presenting ideas).

Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:

• Experience in large/complex organisations. (including matrix ways of working)
• Experience in leading a team.
• Experience in similar organisations with finance teams responsible for managing and operating large capex programmes.
• Business partnering, accounting experience of working with senior managers/directors.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary up to £80,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
• Car Allowance.
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Private Medical Health Care.
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Who are we?

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Learn more about our purpose and values.

Working at Thames Water:

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet. Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family.

Why choose us? Learn more.

We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.

Disclaimer: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.