Senior Financial Accountant in Glasgow

The Senior Financial Accountant in Scottish Power Energy Networks will report into and serve as a deputy to the Accounting Manager. They will lead core financial accounting activity, ensuring all actuals are recorded with precision and delivered on time. Acting as a senior anchor within the team, the Senior Financial Accountant will drive delivery of collective objectives and support colleagues. The role will include responsibility for the day‑to‑day management of Year in Industry student within the team. The role sits in a growing business, requiring adaptability, proactive thinking, and a focus on maintaining a positive team culture.

What you'll be doing

• Group Statutory Accounts and Subsidiary Accounts: In line with group timeline and instructions, lead in the preparation of all non-financial disclosures at a subsidiary account level.
• Serve as a senior point of contact for external audit and the Group external reporting team.
• Contracts Review: Complete accounting analysis of complex contracts to ensure correct statutory accounting treatment. Analysis includes accounting judgemental areas such as capex v opex classification, cloud computing, accounting for joint operations and accounting for embedded derivatives.
• Business Specific: Contribute to the maintenance of ledger integrity by ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance with group policies. Ensure costs are recorded to support regulatory reporting requirements. Oversee the overhead recovery model process. Oversee the accurate release of deferred income and rechargeable activity. Perform analysis on the fixed asset ledger to understand key movements and resolve issues. Oversee any accounting entries and reporting required in relation to Joint Operations companies. Carry out detailed trial balance analysis at an FI company level, highlighting and resolving issues (includes key account reconciliations).
• General: Promote positive business conduct by constructively challenging misaligned behaviours. Continually challenge all key steps within supporting business processes, seeking to make improvements and enhancements where necessary. Continually challenge current business processes to deliver efficiencies and support the scalable growth of the Energy Networks business. Promote a positive attitude to change through change processes. Take part in cross-business and cross-functional projects and meetings to contribute to the overall achievement of objectives as required.

What you'll bring

• Qualified Accountant with experience of Financial/Transactional disciplines.
• Strong analytical and accounting skills with a high degree of precision and accuracy.
• Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple priorities.
• Confidence and ability to constructively challenge stakeholders.
• Communicating effectively with staff at different levels of the organisation.
• Effective working style which engenders strong team spirit and fosters and promotes a positive working environment.
• Working knowledge of relevant accounting systems.
• Flexible working style.
• Displays an ability to apply initiative to deliver solutions to complex issues and works with team members to resolve them.
• Ability to assimilate complex issues and then communicate strategic implications thereof so as to influence and inform senior and executive decision-making.

Minimum Criteria

• Qualified Accountant.
• Strong management, influencing and interpersonal skills, with proven ability to communicate effectively at all organisational levels.
• Strong technical accounting and commercial knowledge, with proven ability to apply these to resolve complex issues.
• Spreadsheet modelling skills.

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%. At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave.
• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave.
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme.
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding.
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases.
• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change.
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving.
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans.
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments.
• Life Assurance (4x salary).
• Access to ‘nudge’ 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.