Finance Business Partner - Capex

We’re looking for a passionate Finance Business Partner – CAPEX to partner with the Asset Ops team and work hand in hand with Directors responsible for keeping the lights on of National Grid’s Electricity Transmission business.

You’ll join a team of Finance Business Partners who work closely with Directors of National Grid’s Electricity Transmission business, responsible for delivering the biggest upgrade the National Grid has seen in decades. This role will play a significant role in providing financial leadership, partnering with the Asset Operations team who are at the heart of maintaining the 99.9999% reliability of England and Wales’ Electricity Transmission Network. The Asset Operations team have accountability for the routine inspection, maintenance and repair of the network assets and are also responsible for replacing and refurbishing the existing network, among other capital expenditure.

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 effective relationships with the key business teams such as AO Performance, ET Transformation, ET Regulation and across wider Finance and FP&A teams to trigger and deliver business improvements that enhance commercial performance.
• Link business targets and imperatives to group strategy to ensure a strategic business plan that is strongly owned by the business and is suitably stretching but achievable.
• Ensure that budgets and forecasts are underpinned by robust business-owned assumptions.
• Ensure business leaders understand their financial performance in the context of the Price Control Deal, providing insight to inform their future decision making.
• Support the business to obtain maximum allowances through opportunities such as regulatory submissions.
• Review and challenge investment requests to ensure the business cases are robust and commercially viable.
• Bring clarity to complex commercial scenarios, considering both commercial and business risks and broader strategic imperatives.
• Lead the implementation of financial discipline and ensure controls are in place and adhered to.

What You\’ll Have

• A Qualified Accountant with post-qualification experience.
• You will be accountable along with the Asset Operations team in driving and delivering the financial performance for the Business unit.
• You are a resilient individual that allows you to focus on the right things 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 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 an engaged and engaging individual that allows you to both lead people and play a team role, depending on what the situation requires.
• You have a continuous improvement mindset and have implemented improvements that are effective and sustainable, with stakeholder buy-in.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing and collaboration skills.

What You\’ll Get

Up to £72,000 dependent 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 days in the office. The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 21 April 25, with interviews due to take place w/c 28 April 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 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.

A large part of this investment will be across the UK within the Electricity Transmission business where we maintain the high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales. We take electricity generated from windfarms and other power sources and transport it through our network of pylons, overhead lines, cables, and substations. It then goes on to separate lower voltage local distribution networks, which connect directly to homes and businesses. 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 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 at the forefront of everything we do.

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