Senior Commercial Finance Manager (Energy Transition)

Job title: Senior Commercial Finance Manager (Energy Transition)

Type: Contract: 12-18 month

Location: Near Reading Station (Hybrid working)

Competitive salary/ daily rate

MBNL is jointly owned by EE and Three, two of the UK's leading and most innovative mobile operators. Established in 2007 as the industry's first network-sharing joint venture, MBNL's mission is to provide best-in-class mobile infrastructure services to EE and Three for serving their tens of millions of customers in the UK. Working at MBNL means being part of a team where you feel connected, valued, and supported.

The Role works alongside senior stakeholders in MBNL, BT and H3G across Finance, Commercial, Property & Legal teams. Being the finance Lead for an area that is being revolutionised through deployment activity. The Finance Lead will manage external partners through the fast paced and changing business environment on behalf of shareholders with competing priorities. The Finance Lead will be responsible to hold suppliers, internal stakeholders and shareholders to account as well as still prioritising, manage workloads and undertake ad hoc tasks with tight deadlines,

What you will do:

• Act as Finance Lead, Business Partner, and accountable owner for following Main Areas on behalf of Head of Commercial Finance and Finance Director
• Finance Lead on RFPs/Procurement activities for Energy Management Contracts
• Transition of outsourced Finance and accounting processes successfully from current Energy Provider(s) to the new Supplier(s) in line with underlying commercial arrangements and internal processes
• Influence and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders including outsourced partners and shareholders to get the best outcome
• Keep all stakeholders abreast of the impacts on the budgets and forecasts through robust financial modelling and business cases
• Identify and articulate the impacts on existing processes and put solutions in place
• Leading on Budget conversations to ensure appropriate funding is in place
• Robustly challenging business activities to ensure best value for money
• Enforcing appropriate governance, controls and financial management of all processes
• Support the Site Running Financial and Operational teams to ensure costs are correctly apportioned to each Shareholder in line with their Power Purchasing Strategies
• Drive MBNL outsourced suppliers to deliver the services required to manage individual Shareholder Power Purchasing Strategies
• Forecast future shareholder specific consumption requirements and provide impact assessments.
• Quantify risks to MBNL budget and Shareholder Power Purchasing Strategies from changes in energy profiles and price movement and provide recommendations.

The ideal candidate:

• Professional qualification: CIMA/ACA/ACCA
• Demonstrable Financial Management, Planning & Analysis experience
• Excellent understanding of the energy market including energy management and power strategies.
• Proven record of Commercial and Procurement activities
• High degree of Commercial Acumen
• Process Improvements
• Financial/Data Modelling & Business Cases
• A proven track record of bringing the outside in to your organisation and using this to drive improvements.

To apply for this position, please send your CV to jianghui.zhang@projectpeople.com

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