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Here's what you'll be doing
Base location - Nottingham (Hybrid - 2 days a week onsite)
Salary - £55,501 - £71,634 plus excellent benefits and career progression
At E.ON UK we offer sustainable energy solutions for homes, businesses and communities and we’re passionate about helping people to reduce their impact on the environment.
Here's what you will be doing
Working with the Head of Strategic Finance this role exists to lead on the analysis and accounting of energy revenue, cost of sales and gross margin delivery. This role is pivotal to drive the commercial and strategic objectives of the E.ON Next Pillar through the provision of commercial models and analysis, to support leadership decision-making.
You'll be recognised as an expert in B2C gross margin and will play a pivotal role in driving transparency that allows business decisions to be optimised consistently against financial criteria.
Other responsibilities
- Lead in the analysis and accounting of energy revenue and cost of sales ensuring that the business has rigorous gross margin accounting practices embedded.
- Support the preparation of forecast, target setting, budgets and 5-year plans, to include gathering inputs through engagement with the business, reporting draft and final outcomes and commentary.
- Ensure costing activities (Third Party and Commodity) are reflected accurately in the forecast, with changes to assumptions monitored, valued and communicated.
- Support customer behaviour analysis collaboration with commercial teams for the production and monitoring of growth and portfolio dynamics.
- Work with the Data Team for the continuous improvement of Gross Margin data integrity, accuracy and granularity, ensuring the use of quality structured datasets to provide business insight and visibility.
- Be a trusted point of contact for business leaders, offering financial advice and insight for improved gross margin.
- Foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders and collaborate effectively.
- Adopt a continuous improvement mindset to drive process improvements, collaborating with Transformation team to digitalise and automate activity.
What we need from you
- Experience working in Retail Energy Industry on Gross Margin.
- Experience modelling financial and non-financial data.
- Highly numerate and able to articulate complex ideas at Executive level.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Capable of solving complex business problems.
- Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with often changing demands.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity.
It would be great if you have
- CIMA/ACA, MBA or top tier strategy consulting experience.
Here’s what you need to know
Our market-leading benefits package includes 26 days holiday + bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, life cover, bonus, and the chance to choose from 20 flexible benefits with tax and/or NI savings. In fact, our benefits package recently won the Personnel Today Reward, Recognition and Benefits Award 2022!
As the only energy company to feature in The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers (our 2022/23 ranking is 15th) we’ve proven that we’re committed to equal opportunities and actively promote a diverse and inclusive working environment, and fairness for everyone.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we interview every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
We’ve exciting opportunities for everyone to develop their talent at E.ON. Our open access, inclusive talent networks provide networking, learning and development for all, building your skills, qualifications, and capabilities throughout your career.
