Finance Business Partner

Job title: Finance Business Partner

Location: London, Edinburgh or Bristol (including hybrid)

Salary: £40,000 - £55,000

We want to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach, by building the platform that will accelerate a sustainable, affordable and resilient energy transition. It’s a huge challenge, but often the toughest problems are the most rewarding to solve.

Since launching in 2019, Kaluza’s technology has been empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers.

From revolutionising billing to smart electric vehicle charging, our real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing cost to serve and boosting engagement. And most importantly, they enable suppliers' customers to drive decarbonisation with smart, low carbon technologies.

 

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working?

Kaluza Finance - Business Planning

You’ll be joining the Kaluza Finance, Legal and Risk squad, which supports the business through a broad range of professional and support services.  Specifically, this role sits within the business planning arm of the finance team.  Business planning is responsible for a wide range of planning activities and helping set the overall company strategy.  This means we work closely with a wide range of different areas of the business, helping to set the path for how we achieve our wider company goals and ultimately help revolutionise and decarbonise the energy grid.

What will I be doing?

The finance business partner will be responsible for supporting all aspects of financial planning at Kaluza.  This will include:

• Company goals - helping facilitate the decision making process in identifying our specific annual goals
• Annual budget process - helping to decide the optimal size and shape or our organisation and how we best deploy capital to help us achieve our company goals
• Quarterly re-forecasting - managing the process for identifying our current trajectory and identifying ‘course correcting’ activities where necessary to help us achieve our goals.
• Investment decisions and partnering - liaising with other teams to work through investment decisions for new opportunities and helping facilitate making trade off decisions in terms of use of capital.
• Commercial finance - assisting with other commercial projects including pricing strategy, competitor research as well as investor relations work

Is this the job for me?

Ideally you may have/be:

• Strong financial literacy and analysis / modelling skills
• A genuine interest in new energies and technologies
• Professional qualification (ACA, CFA, ACCA or equivalent) is desired but not essential
• Analytical thinking and the ability to manage complex detail without losing sight of the big picture
• Strong communication (both verbal and written) and presentation skills
• Proven ability to manage a wide range of stakeholders, including managing upwards

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Our values are not words on a wall — they are at the heart of our culture. They are how we make decisions and how we treat each other. They are concrete and clear, and reflect what we as people, and as a business, really care about.

Kaluza’s vision is to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach. Would you be interested in joining us to help achieve this?

From us you’ll get

• An additional 9% of your salary to spend on a wide range of benefits, including your pension, a selection of lifestyle, health and green benefits, or simply take it as cash!
• Private Medical Insurance and Life Assurance
• 26 days holiday, including a day off for your birthday you can take at any 
• point
• Flexible bank holidays, 5 of which you can choose to take whenever you like (3 are fixed days) 
• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family 
• Discretionary annual bonus 
• A dedicated personal learning budget
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• And more...

Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.