Financial Entity Controller

There’s never been an exciting time to join our CFO function here at National Grid! 

We’re looking for a passionate Finance Entity Controller to join our UK Controllership team! You will be preparing and assuring the results for the Electricity (ET) or Strategic Infrastructure (SI) Business Unit, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and completeness the financials. Additionally, you will be delivering the required financial reporting outputs, building strong connections and outputs with the business services function.

This role is based out of our Warwick office, and we’d hope to see you 2-3 days per week but you’re welcome to be in the office more often if that would work best for you. We’re happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that you feel could help to make this job work for you!

What You'll Do:

• Ensuring accuracy, integrity and completeness of actuals and relevant interim and year end disclosures, including income statement, balance sheet and cashflow statement and all associated disclosures.

• Managing all ET or SI BU financial reporting.

• Build strong relationships across finance and the BUs to ensure financial deliverables and timescales are agreed and adhered to.

• Prepare insightful narrative on key financial reports and BU operational reports.

• Support the delivery of change across finance and the business, role-modelling new ways of working and owning delivery of key outcomes to drive the improvement of long-term business capability.

• Proactively seek opportunities to drive continuous improvement in processes through the implementation of best practice, drawing on external sources and internal references, to drive increased value for National Grid.

• Managing and owning the production of balance sheet reviews, technical accounting and judgement papers, board, and audit committee papers.

• Managing high quality inputs to the regulatory reporting pack through liaison with the Regulation team, Business Services function, Finance and FBPs to ensure smooth integration of deliverables into business submissions.

• Act as a key point of contact to leaders on all matters relating to BU Financial actual performance and plans, as well as to the external auditors (Deloitte).

• Responsible for ensuring financial controls are enacted and refreshed according to latest financial risk assessments.

• Managing a team of three finance professionals, motivating the team to produce high quality outputs and remain committed to their professional development

What You'll Have:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA etc).

• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Governance, Risk and Internal Control Framework.

• Financial Modelling.

• Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting.

• Proactive self-starter with ability to manage own and team workload, to time and desired levels of quality.

• Ability to challenge the status quo.

• Experience in reporting financial information.

• Prior line management experience.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What You'll Get:

£65,000 - £75,000 depending on experience.

Plus:

• Up to 15% Annual Bonus (based on personal and company performance)
• 28 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days in addition
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days every year.
• A generous contributory pension scheme - we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions.
• Life Insurance 10 x base salary.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
• Access to apps which support health, fitness, and wellbeing.

Further Information:

 This is a hybrid working role from our Warwick office with circa 2-3 days in the office. The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 26th May 24, with interviews due to take place w/c 3rd June onwards. 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

Inclusion and Diversity is not just about race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. It is about our employees who wake up every day to serve our 20 million customers. At National Grid, we aim to create an environment where everyone is welcomed for who they are and where our differences are not only accepted but are celebrated. We understand the value that a diverse team can add to our organisation and that is why we model inclusive behaviour starting with senior leadership. National Grid utilises the insights of our employees that come from all different cultures, backgrounds, and beliefs to better serve our customers and communities who are in the fore front of everything we do.

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