Senior Manger Financial Controller

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

We’re looking for a passionate Senior Manger Financial Controller to join our UK Controllership team! You’ll lead out controllership arm of the team, delivering the required outputs and building strong connections and outputs with the business service function as well as be accountable for the completeness and accuracy of the general ledger for Electricity Transmission (ET) and Strategic Infrastructure (SI) Business Units.

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

• Take full ownership for and lead the Business Unit Financial Reporting, including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow and relevant interim and year end disclosures for the relevant entity.
• Delivering accuracy, integrity, and completeness of actuals to reflect the business circumstances for both ET and SI.
• 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, in order to drive increased value for National Grid.
• Delivery of on time and high-quality financial inputs to the regulatory reporting pack through liaison with the Regulation team, and within Finance and FBPs to ensure smooth integration of deliverables into business submissions.
• Act as a key point of contact to Executive leaders in the UK regulated businesses on all matters relating to Entity Financial actual performance and plans, acting as an advisor to and facilitator between business and finance teams and providing adhoc analysis.
• Key point of contact into the EBS model, reflecting hybrid ways of working influencing and steering output of EBS teams in line with controllership requirements.
• Responsible for defining and executing appropriate financial controls.
• Support delivery of control roadmap, leaning into support control remediation and providing technical insight when required.
• Accountable for the allocations process to ensure cost allocations are efficient, understood and in line with regulatory requirements.

What You'll Have

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA etc).
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in SOX controls.
• Experience in reporting financial information.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proactive self-starter with ability to manage own and team workload, to time and desired levels of quality.
• Ability to challenge the status quo.
• Industry experience preferable.
• Experience in building and leading teams.

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

A competitive salary, 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).

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 5th Nov 24, with interviews due to take place w/c 11th Nov 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

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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