Senior Finance Business Partner - Customer Connections

We’re looking for a passionate Senior Finance Business Partner to work hand in hand with Directors of National Grid’s Electricity Transmission business, responsible for delivering the biggest upgrade that National Grid has seen in decades. These projects connecting customer directly will be transformation both for our business and our customers, connecting customers ranging from the likes of Microsoft and Rolls Royce to UK Power Networks, for a variety of different uses, but ultimately will allows our customers to deliver their strategic objectives.

This role will play a significant role in providing financial leadership, partnering our team that is responsible for connecting customers directly to Customer Connections and Infrastructure & Delivery.

This role is based out of our Warwick office, 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

• Build and manage the financial plan for Customer Connections or for Infrastructure Development & Deliver.
• Provide Financial leadership for all finance related matters back into the Customer Connections Infrastructure Development & Deliver team.
• Build, manage, and develop a high performing finance team, building strong succession for the CFO function.
• Ensure that budgets and forecasts are underpinned by robust business-owned assumptions.
• Support CFO with interpretation of key financial metrics so that the ETI business understands what’s critical to its performance.
• Be the key financial and business link between both Customer Connections or Infrastructure Development & Deliver and Finance, ensuring all the right relationships are leveraged to deliver the best outcome.

What You'll Have

• A Qualified Accountant, ideally with an external audit or consulting background.
• You can demonstrate the behaviours that show both financial and business leadership to ensure our business can deliver at a minimum against all their expected outcomes.
• You have a track record in driving real commercial benefit to an organisation.
• You are a relationship builder; a key part of the role will be forming relationships to simply get things done.
• You are, at the heart an engaged and engaging individual that allows you to both to lead people and play a team role, depending on what the situation requires, to ensure the right engagement is provided to deliver the most desired outcome.
• You will be the face of finance partnering the Customer Connections or Infrastructure Development & Deliver Senior leadership team to deliver the best commercial and operational outcomes.
• You will be accountable along with the Customer Connections or Infrastructure Development & Deliver Director in driving and delivering the financial performance for the Business unit.
• You will play the key role of ensuring you utilise the rest of the CFO function to deliver the right outcomes for the Business unit.
• You will play the key leadership role linking both between the Business unit and CFO function.

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 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 our Warwick office with circa 2 days in the office. The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 3 Dec 24, with interviews due to take place w/c 9 Dec 24 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

We’ve recently announced plans to invest around £60 billion across the next five years – a near doubling in investment compared to the prior period. This significant scale of investment in our energy networks will unlock economic growth and enable the increasingly digital, electrified and decarbonised economies of the future. This makes us one of the biggest green investors in the sector, allowing us to revolutionise and decarbonise the energy future across electricity, gas and renewables for the benefit of everyone.

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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