Finance Analyst – Finance Business Partner (SI)

Job title:

Finance Analyst – Finance Business Partner (SI)

Company

National Grid

Job description

We’re looking for a passionate Finance Analyst – Finance Business Partner to join our Strategic Infrastructure (SI) business. You’ll join a team of Finance Business Partners who work hand in hand with Directors of National Grid’s Strategic Infrastructure business, responsible for delivering the biggest upgrade the National Grid has seen in decades. These projects will together enable 50 Gigawatts of offshore wind to deliver substantial decarbonisation of our energy system. This is a new business unit which presents an exciting opportunity to build new solutions and create new ways of working.Our team works across the SI business to ensure business leaders understand their financial performance in the context regulatory framework and the commitments we have made to our shareholders. We are accountable for ensuring the business’s plans are ambitious and deliverable. We support the business to find opportunities to embed efficiencies that drive value for shareholders and consumers, and we provide insight and challenge where we see risks to performance. Critical to success will be a high-quality forecast that finds innovative ways to report and manage material uncertainty and risk across a complex portfolio with tight deliver schedules.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

• You will develop relationships with members of the business management team and Finance Business Partners to identify opportunities to drive business performance through the provision of financial insight.
• Working with your fellow Finance Business Partner colleagues you’ll help to embed a greater financial performance culture within the organisation, assessing today’s processes to identify weaknesses and implementing solutions that balance the needs of finance and business stakeholders.
• You will be recognised as a critical trusted partner for the business utilising your financial expertise and project knowledge to provide support to the wider business.
• You will ensure that investment decisions are made with the right financial rigor – so that the accounting and the regulatory impact of spend is understood at the point of sanction, and the business are clear about how the investment will impact their financial targets.
• You will get involved in ad-hoc projects to help build the financial and operational infrastructure required to deliver a transformative infrastructure program at a national scale.
• Support the delivery of key business projects through the development of business cases, assessing and monitoring risk, and looking across the portfolio of projects to identify, profile and track opportunities and risks to support successful project delivery.
• Provide a commercial understanding of how contracts work and to utilise contract management skills to assist the National Grid business in implementing and managing the delivery of value from its supply chain partners.
• You will develop an understanding of the business context associated with value opportunities and initiatives and to translate financial and non-financial information into financial business cases.
• You will proactively build own knowledge of RIIO and its impact on the industry and the business in order to support key decisions and advise and guide own business area.

What You’ll Have

• A Qualified Accountant with post qualification experience (ACA, ACCA, CIMA etc).
• You have experience in a business partner level and are comfortable balancing support for the business to help it to focus on what really matters for financial performance with having challenging conversations when you see the need for decision and action to deliver that performance.
• At a time where there are many things to achieve, you are a resilient individual that allows you to focus on the right thing within the context you operate within
• 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’re commercially minded and have strong stakeholder management allowing you to build trusted working relationships.
• 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 have a continuous improvement mindset and you have implemented improvements that are effective and sustainable, with stakeholder buy in.

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 oneWhat You’ll GetUp to £55,000 dependent on experience.Plus:

• Annual Bonus (based on personal and company performance) and annual salary review.
• Competitive contributory pension scheme (we double-match your contribution to a max company contribution of 12%.
• 26 days holiday (plus the opportunity to buy more each year).
• Life Insurance at 10 x your basic salary.
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – relevant to your role.
• 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.
• Career development, ongoing training and support, career progression and plenty of opportunity to progress!

Further InformationThis is a hybrid working role from our Warwick office with circa 2 days in the office. The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 6th Jan 25, with interviews due to take place w/c 13th Jan 25 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 usAt 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.#LI-RB2#LI-hybrid

Expected salary

Location

Warwick

Job date

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 04:53:59 GMT

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