Debt Finance Business Partner

• Supporting the production of the Retail Business Unit financial and management reporting.
• Analyse debt trends and customer payment behaviours, providing insights to senior leadership to inform pricing, risk management, and customer relationship management.
• Preparation of debt analysis and MI packs including relevant and insightful variance analysis and helping to formulate debt collection strategies.
• Oversee the management and recovery of customer debt, ensuring effective credit control processes and minimising bad debt exposure across commercial accounts.
• Business Partnering responsibility for Debt, working closely with colleagues in debt operations and driving improvements to debt collection metrics.
• Help to drive improvement and innovation of Financial processes related to debt, including identification of automation opportunities.
• Develop and implement debt collection strategies, balancing regulatory compliance with customer relationship management.
• Draw relationships between business actions e.g. collections strategy and financial performance, including reconciliation between expectations and actual results.
• Support and identify reporting in newly implemented Debt Case Management system
• Perform ad-hoc tasks and analysis to meet the needs of the business.
• Analysis of debt variances to budget, providing commentary to the CFO and Head of Debt.
• Producing monthly debt outputs, including information to prepare the bad debt provision in the management accounts.
• Collaborate within the organisation and forge strong relationships with key stakeholders across the different functions.

• Goal orientated – you proactively love hitting, exceeding and driving your own targets
• Skilled – excellent MS excel and data analysis skills are required
• Communication – confidently and accurately communicate through verbal and written forms
• Accuracy – High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Work at pace and have the ability to prioritise multiple deadlines.
• Knowledgeable – you are technically strong with experience of supporting the preparation of monthly management accounts to strict deadlines and analysing complex datasets.
• An expert - energy industry experience is desirable but not essential. Experience of working in Debt would be advantageous.
• Qualified – you will be a recently qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA /ACA) with. Experience of working in a commercial finance function would be an advantage.

Compensation: £45,000 - £55,000 / year

• Long service recognition
• Day off on your birthday
• Death in service and critical illness cover
• Holiday buy – up to 5 additional days
• Annual salary review
• Learning and development opportunities
• New modern facilities
• Refer a friend payment
• 24 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Appointment allowance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption policies
• Company sick pay (subject to length of service)
• 3 days additional annual leave if you get married/civil partnership etc.