Finance Business Partner - Substations & Renewable Connections

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives. We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

M Group Energy Infrastructure Division is seeking a dynamic and commercially astute Head of Finance to lead the financial strategy, planning, and performance management across our Energy Substation and Renewable Connection portfolio.

This senior leadership role will be pivotal in driving financial excellence, supporting operational decision-making, and ensuring robust financial governance.

You will lead a team of finance professionals and work closely with the executive and operational leadership to deliver sustainable growth and margin improvement.

You will operate at the centre of a business unit which has the ambition to grow as it supports the UK transition to clean power.

What you'll be doing?

As a Finance Business Partner, you'll play a key role in supporting the Energy Substation & Renewable Connection Division, helping to drive strong financial performance and informed business decisions. Working closely with operational and commercial teams, you'll provide valuable insight, challenge, and support to improve profitability, efficiency, and overall business outcomes.

You'll lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning activities, while ensuring robust financial governance, accurate reporting, and clear visibility of risks and opportunities across projects and contracts. The role also involves supporting monthly performance reviews, analysing trends, and identifying opportunities to improve margins, optimise costs, and strengthen working capital performance.

This is a highly collaborative position where you'll partner with stakeholders across the business, influence strategic decisions, and help embed best-practice financial disciplines. You'll be part of a supportive and high-performing finance team, with opportunities to share knowledge, contribute to wider business initiatives, and continuously develop your skills while making a real impact on the success of the division.

What you’ll bring?

• Recently Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

• Demonstrable experience in a business partnering, operational finance, project finance or commercial finance environment.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

• Brilliant behaviours with a growth mindset and desire to learn and improve themselves and the wider business.

• Full driving licence and desire to visit the projects on a regular basis.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme 

• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year   

• Employee assistance programme  

• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts  

• Life assurance 

• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes 

• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave  

• Reward and recognition scheme 

In addition, this role offers; 

• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you (and your family)
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from or Car Allowance

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. 

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. 

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding. 

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