Finance Business Partner

We’re looking for a passionate Finance Business Partner to join our CFO Functions. As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in supporting, challenging, and driving the strategic and financial decisions of the organisation, ensuring alignment with overarching goals. Your focus will be on fostering sustainable performance improvement by leveraging data-driven insights and collaborating closely with stakeholders to identify opportunities for growth and efficiency.

Additionally, you will share best practices and contribute to the development of talent within the Finance Business Partner community, nurturing skills and capabilities that empower the team to adapt to the evolving business landscape.

What You'll Do

• Engage with stakeholders internally and externally to understand best practice and to influence decision makers.
• Actively contribute to each business area to impact the shape of commercial and non-financial performance related decisions.
• Support the implementation of continuous improvement and performance excellence activities, consistently achieving strong results.
• Drive the management of performance, financial risks and the implementation & maintenance of controls.
• Shape the definition of value, key drivers which create value and the KPIs which measure value; and ensure these are used to inform performance management, decision making and planning for the future.
• Present the monthly results in a style suitable for both a finance and non-finance audience, delivering insight and highlighting priority areas for focus, ensuring efficiencies are optimised for the longer term.
• Act as the finance lead on investment appraisal process for relevant business area, guiding decision making with insight and optimisation opportunities, to ensure that all current and future investments are made in line with the business strategy and value requirements.
• Support the delivery of the relevant business area’s financial response to price controls and maximise future allowances for ongoing investment in infrastructure and services, delivering the best possible outcome.
• Drive & support effective working relationships across Finance and Business Services, aligning the service provided to the business requirement through the ‘embedded/focused/self-service’ model
• Play an active role in developing and maintaining a cohesive team across Finance & Business Services, including contribution to the successful implementation of CFO priorities, to create & embed a high performing Community.

Further Information

This is a hybrid working role from our Warwick office with circa 2 days in the office. The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 1 July 25. We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

About us

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business

At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office. Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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