Controlling Business Analyst & Continuous Improvement Lead - E.ON : Job Details

Here's what you'll be doing

Join our Central Planning Reporting team and collaborate with a diverse group of professionals, including business area Controllers, accounting teams, and CSDI experts. You'll play a key role in identifying opportunities to streamline and automate planning and reporting processes, driving efficiency across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Promote continuous improvement including reviewing and optimising ways of working.
• Seek out examples of best practice and emerging trends in financial planning & reporting.
• Act as agents of change in development of new tools and processes.
• Working closely with stakeholders, to understand business problems, to gather requirements and ideas, to bring good business outcomes
• Support the development of user stories for system and process changes.
• Scopes work and plans delivery timelines with customer
• Create and maintain a system/process change plan for the Central Planning & Reporting team
• Responsible for business stakeholder engagement and communication
• Support testing and release of finance products with developers, and business stakeholders to land the change well
• Lead in defining the scope of works and partnering with stakeholders to manage and prioritise work items into the commercial services digitalisation roadmap

What we need from you

• Finance understanding and experience working in Finance teams
• Demonstrate empathy and a customer-oriented mindset when identifying stakeholder needs and translating them into effective solutions.
• Communicate confidently across all levels of the organization, influencing stakeholders effectively.
• Establish and maintain positive and constructive relationships across all stakeholder levels.
• Bring energy, determination, and enthusiasm to meet tight deadlines.
• Good commercial acumen to identify key issues and provide effective support and challenge to senior stakeholders.
• Build a network of relevant business contacts to influence requirements and deliverables.
• Approach challenges with creativity, driving imaginative solutions that challenge conventional business thinking.
• Facilitate workshops and presentations with excellence.
• Communicate effectively in various formats, both written and verbal.
• Thrive in fast-paced, complex matrix organizations by quickly adapting to changing requirements.
• Approach problems from a customer perspective.
• Commit to teamwork and collaboration.
• Actively listen and present with confidence
• Translate technical jargon into concise, understandable facts for key stakeholders.
• Proactively identify digital opportunities within the Controlling domain

Here’s what you need to know

• Our market-leading benefits package includes 26 days holiday + bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, life cover, bonus and the chance to choose from 20 flexible benefits with tax and/or NI savings. In fact, our benefits package recently won the Personnel Today Reward, Recognition and Benefits Award 2022! As the only energy company to feature in The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers (our current ranking is 8th) we’ve proven that we’re committed to equal opportunities and actively promote a diverse and inclusive working environment, and fairness for everyone.
• We realise the best people bring their energy at different times, so we’re happy to talk flexible working and offer a range of flexible working options, including full time, part time and job share.
• As a Disability Confident Employer we interview every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
• We’ve exciting opportunities for everyone to develop their talent at E.ON. Our open access, inclusive talent networks provide networking, learning and development for all, building your skills, qualifications, and capabilities throughout your career.