Finance Controls and Assurance Analyst

Date: 17 Jul 2026

Company: DWR Cymru Cyfyngedig Welsh Water Plc

City: Cardiff

Address:

Cardiff, Wales, GB, CF30LT

Job Requisition Number	8445
Work Type	Temporary 2 Years Contract (Secondment)
Job Function	Finance
Salary Range	£34,566 - £40,821 per annum
Base	Ty Awen - Newport
Closing date	23rd July 2026

About you

This role supports the organisation’s commitment to developing and retaining internal talent and offers an excellent opportunity for an individual to build their skills and progress their career.

Qualifications Required

AAT or part-qualified CIMA or ACCA or a similar standard is considered

Experience Required

Experience with SAP or a comparable ERP system or experience working with any other relevant systems
Previous experience of working in an accounts/financial/bookkeeping role
Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written form
Ability to multitask
Proficient in both Word and Excel

Knowledge & Skills

Critical Thinking - The ability to gather, understand, analyse and interpret information & concepts, verbal or numerical, about people or situations, quickly.
Initiative - The ability to actively influence events rather than passively accept them. The ability to see opportunities and to act on them, to originate action.
Communication skills – The drive and ability to exchange appropriate information with relevant people at the right time. The desire and skills to seek first to understand as well as to be understood. To be as open as confidentiality allows.
Resilience – Tenacious and goal orientated with the ability to keep moving forward despite system, people and organisational inertia.
Ownership and reliability – The readiness to take responsibility for projects or issues and to be accountable for their timely delivery and quality. The capacity and motivation to fulfil consistently any undertakings made. The habit of never letting people down or promising what can't be done.
Teamwork - The belief in the value of synergy; the drive and ability to work with others to achieve a common goal in an optimally effective way.

What you’ll be responsible for

As a Finance Controls and Assurance Analyst, you’ll help protect the organisation’s financial integrity by strengthening internal controls, supporting regulatory and statutory reporting, and providing insight that drives continuous improvement. Working closely with finance, audit and wider business teams, you’ll play a visible role in assurance, risk management and sustainable investment decisions.

Key responsibilities include:

Design, assess, and challenge financial controls to ensure risks are effectively mitigated and controls remain fit for purpose in a changing regulatory environment.
Plan and execute control testing, identify and remediate deficiencies, and escalate key findings with clear recommendations to senior management.
Deliver insightful reporting and analysis from control activity to support risk management, process improvement, automation, and audit engagement.
Work closely with business stakeholders to document, review, and maintain accurate process documentation aligned to operational, policy, and regulatory changes.
Design and implement robust processes and controls to ensure spend categorisation meets all regulatory and reporting requirements, including Ofwat, sustainability, and ESG.
Provide flexible support across the team, undertaking additional duties as required to meet business objectives.

Good to know

2 year secondment opportunity
Currently hybrid working

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 34 days annual leave (pro rata, 26 days + 8 public holiday days), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)

• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year

• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions

• Free Mortgage Brokering Services

• Enhanced family friendly policies

• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes

• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping

• Cycle to work scheme

• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops

• Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites

• Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service

• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family

• Many more can be found on our website!

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work.

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.

Dŵr Cymru Cyf, a limited company registered in Wales No. 2366777. Registered office: Linea, Fortran Road, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0LT