Principal Business Partner: Site and Central Functions

Snapshot of your day

The Business Controller / Finance Business Partner is responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting across assigned cost centers, including budgeting, forecasting, and actuals. The role supports the business by providing high-quality financial insights, managing month-end close activities, preparing journals, and ensuring proper cost allocations.

In addition, the role provides robust forecasting for central costings, supports UK and global reporting requirements, and collaborates closely with internal and external stakeholders to maintain strong financial governance.

How You’ll Make a Difference

Financial Controlling

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and actual reporting for IT, Site Functions, and Support Functions
• Prepare, review, and post month-end journals, accruals, and provisions with complete and accurate supporting documentation
• Ensure timely and correct cost allocation across business units
• Produce high-quality monthly cost center reports and analyse variances between forecast and actuals
• Complete internal invoicing recharging costs between different divisions
• Project & Workstream Leadership
  
  
  

Lead the Finance Workstream for Special projects

• Strategic partnering with project leads to budget, forecast and present month financial reporting to each stakeholder group for the relevant project
• Reconciliation of actuals and alignment with forecast
• Governance, Compliance & Assurance
• Act as an Independent Assessor for RIC Testing
• Ensure full compliance with Siemens Energy regulations, IFRS, local statutory requirements, and internal finance guidelines
• Support external audits and provide ad-hoc reporting as required
  
  
  

What You Bring

Skills & Knowledge

• SAP Preferred
• MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
• Excellent verbal & Written Communication
• IFRS Reporting & Accounting Guidelines
• CIMA/ACCA Qualified
• Experience Requirements
  
  
  

Essential

• Strong experience in financial/management accounting, budgeting, and controlling
• Working knowledge of finance processes
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional and international teams
  
  
  

Competencies

• Analytical and detail-oriented
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
• Ability to explain financial insights to non-finance stakeholders
• High level of integrity and commitment to compliance
• Interest in digitalisation and process improvement
  
  
  

Who Is Siemens Energy

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• 26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served.
• Access to a flexible benefits portal, including private medical cover and cycle-to-work schemes.
• A class-leading adjustable pension scheme.
• Career development and continuous learning opportunities.
• The chance to work on pioneering projects shaping the future of energy
  
  
  

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