Finance Manager – Capex Business Partnering Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire Posted 22 hours ago

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 64,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water utility provider is seeking a Finance Manager – Capex Business Partnering to deliver financial business partnering across multiple areas of their capital programme. This role involves driving financial planning and providing insights to stakeholders while leading a team of finance professionals. Candidates should have experience in finance business partnering and strong leadership skills. Join this dynamic company in Peterborough for a stable and rewarding career.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Private healthcare

Annual bonus scheme

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible benefits for well-being

Family-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience in leading and developing finance teams.
• Proven background in capex finance environments.
• Strong analytical skills and financial insight.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted business partner to senior leaders.
• Design and deliver financial reports and insights.
• Lead business planning and forecast cycles for capex.

Skills

Financial business partnering

Team leadership

Capex planning and forecasting

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis

Education

Qualified Finance professional (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)

Tools

Power BI

SAP

Job description

Finance Manager – Capex Business Partnering page is loaded## Finance Manager – Capex Business Partneringlocations: Huntingdon: Lincoln: Peterboroughtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: DR34147**Finance Manager – Capex Business Partnering Circa £75,555 dependent on skills and experience Permanent, full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time Huntingdon / Peterborough / Lincoln****Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team!**As Finance Manager – Capex Business Partnering, you will deliver financial business partnering across multiple programme and delivery areas of Anglian Water’s capital programme. You will drive financial planning, performance, and strategic decision-making aligned with the organisation’s strategic goals and regulatory expectations. Supporting director and senior leader level stakeholders, you will provide high-quality financial insight, robust planning, budgeting, forecasting, and commercial analysis to enable informed decision-making in a complex regulated environment.You will lead a team of finance professionals, combining business partnering, project accounting, financial planning and analysis, and financial controls for your assigned areas. You will be accountable for accurate actuals, forecasts, and budgets, delivering insight, ensuring financial integrity, mitigating risks, identifying opportunities, and supporting long-term sustainability and operational efficiency. Effective communication and leadership skills are essential to engage and challenge non-financial managers, ensuring your team understands business context, priorities, and objectives. You will also drive and embed a culture of commercial awareness for decision-making across your business area and the wider Finance function.**Key responsibilities*** Act as a trusted business partner to directors and senior leaders, providing financial guidance, challenge, and support for business cases and investment approvals.* Design and deliver financial reports and insight, tracking and challenging delivery against financial targets and regulatory requirements.* Lead the business planning and forecast cycle for capex, ensuring high quality, timely, and compliant inputs for effective reviews and decision making.* Ensure compliance with reporting deadlines, processes, and standards, and actively review the financial risk environment.* Champion a culture of insight, transparency, and commercial awareness in financial reporting and decision making.* Promote a culture of Health, Safety and Wellbeing, embedding ‘Safer Every Day’ and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.**As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:*** A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%* Private healthcare for your peace of mind* An annual bonus scheme* The opportunity to volunteer in your local community* 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays* Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)* Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle* Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental* Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks* Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave* Qualified Finance professional (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with recognised finance qualification.* Experience in leading and developing teams, including performance management.* Proven experience in finance business partnering in a capex/capital investment environment.* Strong background in capex planning and forecasting, and providing insight on performance against plans and forecasts.* Experience working cross-functionally with PMOs, project teams, and commercial functions.* Experience in financial risk management and controls in a capital finance environment.* Record of providing high quality reporting and analysis in capital programmes to support decision making.* Good knowledge of financial reporting and analysis tools (e.g., Power BI, SAP).* Strong leadership skills and ability to inspire and support a high-performing team* Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills* Able to use SAP, Power BI, or similar analytics platforms, including creating dashboards and reporting packs**Inclusion at Anglian Water:**Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.**Closing date: 11th January 2026****#loveeverydrop**locations: 3 Locationstime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 12 Days AgoWe are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team [e-mail]’To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. More information about how we look after and use your information can be found in our .Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.