Senior Finance Business Partner - Asset Management, Commercial & Procurement

There’s never been a more exciting time to join our CFO function in National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED)!

We’re looking for a passionate Senior Finance Business Partner to join our CFO Functions. As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in supporting, challenging, and driving the strategic and financial decisions and priorities 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.

This role can be based out of either our Pegasus, Warwick or Bristol offices, and we’d hope to see you at least two 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

• 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.
• Drive the management of performance, financial risks and the implementation & maintenance of controls.
• 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
• 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.
• Lead the long-term business & financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes to drive performance.
• Support the implementation of continuous improvement and performance excellence activities, consistently achieving strong results.
• 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 so as to outperform targets.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

What You'll Have

• Accounting Qualification (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
• The ability to influence and impact the decisions and financial performance of senior stakeholders and their teams throughout the relevant business area.
• Strong commercial skills.
• Good strategic outlook. Joins the dots between long term strategy and financial performance, whilst dealing with ambiguity.
• Proven ability to adapt style of financial information presentation to suit a range of stakeholders, both financial and non-financial.
• Extensive experience in financial analysis and investment appraisal, with track record of successful delivery.
• Planning forecasting and budgeting expert.
• Demonstrated Business Partner experience to act as a trusted advisor using strategic insight to deliver tangible performance improvements.
• Proactively maintaining continued professional development under relevant accountancy body or other recognised professional development.
• Strong understanding of how value is generated and of operating within a regulated business environment.

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

Competitive Base Salary dependent on experience.

Plus:

• Up to 20% Annual Bonus (based on personal and company performance)
• 28 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days in addition
• A full electric company car or cash alternative
• Private Medical Insurance 
• 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
• Access to benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few
• 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 one of our offices with circa 2 days in the office. The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 14 Feb 25, with interviews due to take place w/c 24 Feb 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

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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