Financial Planning Manager in Glasgow

ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow (hybrid)

Salary starting at £61,600 + up to 20% bonus, car allowance, private medical & other excellent benefits

Full-time, permanent position

Closing date - 27th of March 2026

Help us create a better future, quicker.

As a Financial Planning Manager within our People team at ScottishPower, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the financial narrative across both Health & Safety/People External Services and the wider SP Personnel Costs Budget. You will lead the rigorous evaluation and management of all financial aspects of the Health & Safety/People External Services portfolio, ensuring clear, timely, and insight-rich communication to stakeholders. You will also take full ownership of consolidating inputs for the SP Personnel Costs budget. You will develop a coherent, compelling story that enables senior leaders to understand key drivers, risks, and opportunities. You will be responsible for all planning and financial modelling activities related to the Health & Safety/People External Services Budget, developing sophisticated financial models that include complex scenario design, sensitivities, multi-year forecasting, and analytical logic.

What you’ll be doing:

• Financial Planning - People and Health & Safety External Services Budget: Lead the business planning, budgeting and forecasting processes for People and Health & Safety External Services and Capital Expenditure, ensuring costs are forecast with accuracy and completeness. Own all planning, financial modelling, justification and stakeholder engagement activities. Prepare and deliver stakeholder and executive level presentations, including submissions to SP and IBE. Provide ad hoc financial analysis and insight as required throughout the planning and forecasting cycle. Support the coordination and loading of budgets and forecasts into SAP. Partner closely with budget holders to ensure a strong understanding of cost drivers, with performance actively monitored and tightly managed through effective working relationships. Provide expert financial guidance to identify and mitigate risks within the planning and forecasting process. Maintain and demonstrate strong technical accounting knowledge, ensuring business plans, budgets and forecasts are fully aligned to accounting principles.
• Financial Planning - Personnel Cost Consolidation: Consolidate actuals, budgets and forecasts for personnel costs, ensuring data completeness, accuracy and correct alignment across all UK Control and Group People templates. Lead robust end-to-end reconciliations to ensure integrity and consistency of personnel cost data. Deliver variance analysis, insightful commentary and clear explanations of performance for senior leadership and key stakeholders. Act as a primary interface with UK Group Control on Personnel Cost matters. Influence and enhance consolidation tools and reporting systems, driving continuous improvements in efficiency, control and data quality.
• Financial Projects: Develop financial models and undertake detailed financial analysis for People related projects impacting External Services, ensuring cost profiles, benefits and returns are clearly understood and articulated.
• Regulatory Reporting: Design, develop and implement new reporting frameworks for People and Health & Safety in line with emerging regulatory requirements (ED2, T3 and future ED3). Ensure accounting policies, purchasing policies and the purchase-to-pay model are embedded and consistently applied across the People function. Manage the interface with UK Control on all regulatory and financial reporting matters.
• Risk Management: Design, develop and implement a People risk framework aligned to the emerging UK Risk Framework, ensuring risks are clearly identified, assessed and managed.
• General Responsibilities: Contribute to the overall performance of the department by supporting delivery of objectives and responding positively to changes in scope, processes and requirements as the function evolves. Build strong, collaborative relationships across and beyond the business area, taking a cooperative approach to issue resolution and ensuring timely, efficient responses to queries. Oversee monthly actuals and forecast reporting, producing fully consolidated, executive ready performance packs with clear, incisive commentary that highlights trends, drivers, risks, and opportunities, enabling senior stakeholders to make informed decisions.

What you’ll bring:

• Qualified Accountant (or relevant experience) with considerable PQE working in a reporting role.
• Able to work effectively as part of a small team.
• Understanding and experience of relevant IT applications/systems including Oracle and SAP (Finance).
• Effective analytical skills with the ability to assimilate a large amount of complex, interlinked data.
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills at all levels - verbal and written with particular emphasis on being able to make those from non-financial backgrounds comfortable with financial information.
• Effective influencing skills with confidence and ability to constructively challenge at all levels.
• Pro-active person who anticipates issues and problems and puts into place effective strategies to manage these.
• Delivery focus and high level of resilience to deal with the continually changing demands and time-pressures of the role.
• Strong organisational skills and time management being able to work with a large volume of information and ability to prioritise workload.
• Demonstrates a continuous improvement mindset, proactively identifying and implementing process enhancements.

Minimum Criteria:

• Qualified Accountant (or relevant experience) with considerable PQE - Consideration will be given to a candidate who can demonstrate significant and relevant experience of delivery within Finance roles.
• High level of commercial awareness.
• Highly motivated self-starter with strong numerical and analytical skills and the ability to communicate effectively.

What’s in it for you:

• As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
• 36 days annual leave.
• Holiday Purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave.
• Share Schemes.
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding.
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases.
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving.
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans.
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments.
• Life Assurance (4x salary).
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support.
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more.

Why ScottishPower:

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation. Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in. ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.

Mobility: Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.