We’re looking for an experienced BPA Manger for 12 months maternity cover. You will be responsible for leading InterGen’s planning, forecasting and business partnering activities, ensuring that financial forecasts are accurate, robust and aligned to our strategic objectives. Through effective stakeholder engagement, insightful analysis and modelling, you will support business decision making, communicate performance expectations to stakeholders, and help drive business growth.
You will oversee forecasting cycles, challenge key business assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and translate complex financial information into actionable recommendations for senior leaders across our business.
The Business Planning & Analysis (BPA) team is responsible for delivering the financial insight that supports strategic decision making across InterGen. Through internal and external management reporting, forecasting, investment appraisal and M&A support, we help the business identify opportunities and manage risks that drive long term value.
Joining our wider Finance team, you'll become part of a supportive, high-performing environment where collaboration and continuous improvement are encouraged. As a BPA Manager, you'll work closely with the BPA Analyst and Head of Forecasting & Investments while also partnering with stakeholders across the business, providing excellent exposure and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact at InterGen.
Our Edinburgh office is a friendly and exciting environment with regular company-funded social events, seasonal gatherings and charitable initiatives.
Business Partnering
You’ll lead financial business partnering across InterGen working closely with operational, commercial and finance stakeholders to support forecasting, planning and strategic decisions. You will have ownership of the short-run marginal cost process to support commodity trading decisions by our sister company Powertica. You will be a key point of contact for senior InterGen stakeholders, (Managing Director, CFO) and key people at Powertica, to ensure critical planning assumptions, business performance and strategic objectives are all aligned.
We need you to deliver insightful analysis and recommendations on the economics of InterGen’s gas fleet, maintenance and investment options, operational performance, risks and opportunities. This will include helping to maintain robust financial models and assumptions that support business planning.
Business Review and Financial Planning Process
As a key contributor to the business review and financial planning process, you’ll coordinate across our functional areas to deliver high quality planning and forecasting outputs. We’re looking for you to turn complex information into insightful analysis on financial performance and forecast metrics, to support our senior leaders and communicate effectively with our investors.
Decision Support, Financial Analysis and Continuous improvement
You will lead the analysis and modelling for operational and investment decisions at our plants.
Working with the plant management teams, you will ensure these our choices are modelled appropriately and presented along with relevant sensitivity analysis to support our decision makers. You will analyse operational performance, revenue streams and cost drivers while managing the end-to-end business planning and assumptions for long term forecasting. As a champion of continuous improvement, you will take the lead on the review of processes and techniques in providing routine analysis and decision support, ensuring best practices in this field.
As a BPA Manager at InterGen, you are a commercially minded finance professional with strong analytical, forecasting, and business partnering experience. Comfortable working with senior stakeholders, you can analyse complex financial information and turn it into clear, understandable insights and recommendations that support business decision making. Highly organised and proactive, you thrive in a fast-paced environment, take ownership and accountability of your work and have the skills to build strong relationships across the business. You are confident challenging assumptions, managing competing priorities and delivering high quality results.
Qualifications
Professional finance qualification (ICAS/ICAEW/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) essential
Experience – Energy Industry experience strongly preferred
- Experience of preparation of financial forecasts and financial modelling best practice
- Experience of communicating complex issues to senior executives Track record in using excel for financial modelling or similar analysis
- Understanding and practical experience of TM1 (IBM Cognos reporting tool) would be a great advantage (introductory training will be provided and then “hands on” training on the job)
- Salary £68,000 – £72,000 DOE
- Discretionary annual bonus scheme of 25%
- 35 days holiday (includes bank holidays)
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Pension Scheme – 3% min employee contribution, 8% InterGen contribution
- Health & Wellbeing Reimbursement of £650
- Company Sick Pay Scheme
- Eyecare Vouchers
- Savings & Discounts Platform
We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options, where possible. Whether you’re working from our Edinburgh office, remote location or at one of our Power Stations, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and teamwork are championed.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and you will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes and help shape our culture.
We provide a wide array of compensation, benefits and wellbeing programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees. We believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you with yours by offering the development resources you need to advance your career.
With the strength of our company and reputation behind you, a culture of high-performance that motivates you and the freedom to drive your career your way, our shared purpose and values will inspire you to make an impact in an organisation whose vision is working towards a world with stable and dependable energy for generations.
