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About the Role
Lead the financial strategy and performance of a multi-billion pound infrastructure programme, securing water supplies for generations to come. This role offers the opportunity to shape financial strategy, provide commercial insight, and ensure financial governance for one of the UK's most ambitious water projects.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic financial leadership across the programme, shaping budgeting, forecasting and cost control.
- Own and oversee programme budgets, driving robust governance, reporting and performance management.
- Lead engagement with regulators (including Ofwat, RAPID and Defra) to secure funding and support programme outcomes.
- Prepare and present financial insight to senior leaders, executive teams and Board stakeholders.
- Drive best-in-class cost control and financial planning processes, leveraging systems and innovation to improve efficiency.
- Lead the annual business planning process, ensuring strong alignment between financial strategy, delivery plans and programme priorities.
- Partner closely with Commercial, PMO, Treasury and wider finance teams to integrate financial strategy across the programme.
- Build and lead a high-performing team, creating a culture of collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Proven success delivering financial strategy and control within major infrastructure or capital programmes.
- Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, cost control and financial governance.
- Exceptional ability to influence senior stakeholders, internally and externally.
- Significant experience leading large, high-performing finance teams in senior roles.
- Strong understanding of regulated environments (utilities, infrastructure, nuclear or similar).
- Experience helping complex projects move towards financial close.
- A recognised professional finance qualification and strong academic background.
- A collaborative leadership style with the ability to build trust and inspire performance.
Skills
- Financial strategy
- Financial performance
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Cost control
- Financial governance
- Stakeholder influence
- Team leadership
- Financial planning
Location
- London, Kings Cross
- Peterborough
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Hybrid Working
Experience Level
- Senior finance leader
- Experienced finance leader
Education Level
- Recognised professional finance qualification
- Strong academic background
Salary/Compensations
- £115,000 - £140,000
Benefits
- Car allowance
- Private health care
- Double-matched pension
- Life assurance at 8 times salary
- Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
- 30 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
- Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave.
- Opportunity for shared parental pay
- Bonus scheme, up to 25%
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.
About the Company
- At Anglian Water, we’re driven by our purpose, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop.
- Now, we’re delivering something extraordinary. Our Strategic Resource Options (SRO) Programme will create two new, multi‑billion‑pound reservoirs in the East of England; securing water supplies for generations to come.
- This is the largest and most complex programme we’ve ever undertaken.
Equal Opportunity
- We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for every one 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.