Hemiko is looking for a commercially minded and detail-oriented Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) professional to strengthen our finance team. This role will act as a key bridge between operational teams, investment stakeholders, and senior management, ensuring financial data is accurate, well-analysed, and effectively communicated to support decision-making across the business.
The successful candidate will support business planning, forecasting, reporting, and governance processes, as well as contribute to improving systems, controls, and financial insights
Hemiko is a fast-growing business investing in and delivering over £1bn of low-carbon heat network projects in the coming years. We fund, design, build, operate, and maintain district energy networks and build energy systems for communities, towns, and cities, working in partnership with local authorities, developers, house builders, and property owners.
Our vision is to be a UK leader in town and city-scale decarbonisation. Heating and the built environment remain amongst the most challenging areas to decarbonise, and this is where we are focusing our investment, expertise, and innovation.
We are seeking people who are proactive, solutions-focused, and committed to innovation—both commercially and technically—as we continue to grow.
The Role
This role will act as a key bridge between operational teams, investment stakeholders, and senior management, ensuring financial data is accurate, well-analysed, and effectively communicated to support decision-making across the business.
This role will report into the Head of Finance, with a dotted line into the Corporate Development team, and will own financial planning, forecasting, and performance insight across the group, ensuring the business can make informed strategic and operational decisions as it scales through organic growth and acquisitions.
This role will build a robust planning and reporting function that provides clear visibility on financial performance, cash generation, and project returns, as well as supporting the board and investors in decision making and capital allocation.
The candidate will need to be comfortable communicating with team members, management, investors and other external stakeholders. They will be personable and a good communicator.
Key responsibilities:
- Project & Business Partnering
- Partner with project teams to ensure financials, forecasts, and cashflows are accurate, up-to-date, and aligned with project schedules and milestones.
- Act as a finance business partner for project delivery, linking operational teams, investment stakeholders, and board reporting.
- Maintain project revenue and cost summaries, ensuring reconciliation to contract values, including indexation, variations, and change orders.
- Support project-level cost-to-complete tracking, margin analysis, and profitability monitoring.
- Forecasting, Budgeting & Corporate Model
- Support preparation of annual budgets, quarterly reforecasts, and long-term strategic plans.
- Update and maintain the corporate financial model, ensuring accurate forecasts, asset valuations, and scenario analysis for strategic decision-making.
- Provide sensitivity analysis and “what-if” modelling to evaluate the financial impact of project and business decisions.
- Develop and maintain project-level cashflow forecasts, highlighting funding requirements and timing.
- Reporting & Analysis
- Prepare monthly board packs, management reports, and presentations with clear commentary on performance, risks, and trends.
- Analyse variances between budget, forecast, and actual results, identifying key drivers and recommendations.
- Monitor business performance across projects and lines, identifying risks, cost drivers, and improvement opportunities.
- Improve KPI reporting to ensure metrics are relevant, accurate, and actionable.
- Support reporting to lenders and ensure key financial metrics are tracked.
- Assist with preparation of consolidated monthly management accounts.
- Ad Hoc & Strategic Support
- Provide financial analysis to support investment appraisals, project business cases, and strategic initiatives.
- Support the Head of Finance in driving continuous improvement in processes, reporting, and financial systems.
- Contribute to initiatives that enhance financial transparency, project profitability, and value creation across the business.
- Automation and AI enablement
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and insight through automation and AI-enabled reporting tools.
- Work towards automated reporting, dashboards and single source of truth for financial and operational data.
- Support the development of scalable reporting and planning capabilities using modern finance technologies and business intelligence tools
- Drive improvements in data accessibility, consistency, and real-time financial visibility across the business
Desirable Experience
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent FP&A / finance business partnering experience with 2+ years post qualified experience
- Strong background in forecasting, budgeting, and corporate financial modelling.
- Experience preparing board-level reporting and presenting complex financial information in a clear, concise way.
- Familiarity with project-based businesses (construction, utilities, infrastructure, or asset-heavy industries preferred).
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; confident using Excel and financial modelling tools.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to partner across functions.
- Experience working in or with audit processes and improving financial controls desirable
Personal Attributes
- Commercially astute with the ability to link financials to operational performance.
- Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
- High attention to detail while able to see the bigger picture.
- A collaborative team player with strong influencing skills
Remuneration and Info
- Remuneration: Competitive depending on experience.
- Discretionary bonus based on individual and business performance.
- An inclusive culture that promotes diversity.
- Holidays 25 days a year plus statutory holidays - with an option to purchase, or sell, up to an additional 5 days per annual leave year.
- Pension plan provision.
- Private health care scheme available.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Electric Car lease scheme.
- Health and well-being support.
- Continuing learning and development opportunities.
- Company PC/laptop, etc.
Hemiko recognises that flexibility is important and are open to discussing working arrangements that support both individual circumstances and business needs.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of ethnicity, gender or gender expression, disability, age, marital status, trade union activity, religious belief, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background. We are also an Armed Forces-friendly organisation and encourage applications from ex-service personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors, and military spouses/partners
We value openness and collaboration, avoiding unnecessary complexity and silos. We are a young, growing business in the rapidly expanding low-carbon energy sector, offering significant opportunities for career development and flexibility while delivering meaningful outcomes for the communities we serve.
Application
To apply, please complete the online application form on BambooHR. However for an informal chat please contact [email protected]
