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About us

SES Water supplies 160 million litres of fresh water to over 735,000 people across Kent, Surrey and South London every day.

We don’t just want to be proud of what we do, we also want to celebrate how we do it. We are an inclusive environment that values community, and your contribution to delivering our Business Plan over the next 5 years and our 5 pledges to our customers is vital. We aren’t just recruiting for experience - potential, fit and values are fundamental to building and developing our team. We want you to develop, grow and succeed and enjoy working at SES.

With a rich history dating back to the mid-19th century, we began by supplying water to individual parishes before merging and expanding throughout the next 150 years until today. We now maintain over 2,000 miles of water mains and manage eight treatment works, 23 pumping stations and 31 reservoirs and water towers.

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Our Vision

Our vision is to be an outstanding water company delivering service excellence and we believe our people are integral to helping us achieve our goal to ensure that we deliver a high-quality service that is reliable and resilient. Our plan for the future is to ensure the services we provide are fair, future-proof, good for the planet and utilise smart technology. Water plays a role in all our lives. It’s an essential service and one that we are proud to deliver to our customers and communities.

Office Culture 

We have a strong set of values that guide everything we do. We’re passionate about recognising our employees’ efforts, as well as empowering and celebrating them as individuals.

We believe in giving our teams all the support they need to deliver the best service possible to customers. You’ll receive great training and on-the-job coaching on our Finance systems and processes, all delivered to the high standards we expect.

You’ll become part of an inclusive, hard-working and multi-skilled team who support each other and share their knowledge while helping to deliver the goals of the team.  

The health and wellbeing of our staff and interviewees is paramount, so we have put practices in place to keep all parties safe.

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Employee benefits

  • Life assurance

  • Bonus scheme

  • Give as you earn scheme

  • Aqualibrium - our wellbeing programme including Mental Health First Aiders and free annual comprehensive health checks

  • Financial education, savings and personal loans through Neyber

  • 23 days’ holiday per year, increasing to 27 with service

  • Simply Health Cash Plan, Surgical Choices and Rewards

  • Confidential crisis support, counselling and legal advice

  • One day paid volunteering a year

  • Discounts with our subsidiaries and Garage

Meet the team

Jess Jones
Purchase Ledger Clerk

Fresh out of university, Jess worked as a temp before becoming a permanent member of SES’s finance team whilst studying for her AAT. Over a decade later, Jess is still enjoying being an active part the company’s growth and development. Jess said “I have acquired a wealth of opportunity and experience that has kept me as dedicated to SES’s vision as it is to mine.”

Paul Kerr
Group Chief Financial Officer

Paul joined in 2018, and is an executive member of the SES Water Board and the East Surrey Holdings Board, which encompasses a variety of Group entities. As Group CFO, Paul has not only responsibility for the financial wellbeing of the Group, but also plays a key role in all strategic decision making at Board level, ensuring that the needs of customers, employees, shareholders, regulators and other stakeholders are met. Given the regulated nature of SES Water, Paul is the main liaison for the Group with Ofwat, the water sector’s economic regulator. Prior to joining SES Water, Paul worked with Thames Water as Group Financial Controller and Wastewater CFO, and before then with PwC, working for 10 years in San Francisco. When asked about working for SES Water, Paul said “The real attraction to me for working for a company like SES Water is the difference you can make – for the better - to people’s lives on a daily basis. The ability and privilege to provide wholesome, high quality water to our customers, and therefore be a key part of the local community is truly inspiring. Couple that with the opportunities that we can provide our staff to fulfil their potential through a range of on-the-job experience, especially in the finance department, makes SES Water an excellent place to work, learn and develop.”

Emma Prince
Group Financial Controller

Emma joined SES Water in September 2018, as Group Financial Controller the role spans across all areas of the finance function. Including financial and management accounting, treasury and cash management, purchase and sales ledger. SES Water sits as the largest part of the East Surrey Holdings group. Prior to joining SES Water, Emma spent 12 years at Thames Water working across multiple roles. Emma said “The water industry is often unseen but a service that everyone relies upon, its great to be able to come to work and make a difference to peoples lives. Working for SES Water is great – everyday I get to make a difference, we’ve been on a journey over the last two years to transform finance into a best practise finance team, the roles that we are recruiting for enables the next stage of our transformational journey and I am really excited to be leading that.”