Financial Systems Transformation Manager in Warwick

About Us

At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a Financial Systems Transformation Manager to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all.

National Grid is hiring a Financial Systems Transformation Manager - This position is based from our Warwick office however we offer flexible hybrid working options.

Job Purpose

As the NGET Financial Systems Transformation Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving the successful delivery and adoption of financial systems and performance management improvements across the organisation. Working closely with stakeholders, you will lead transformational change that enhances end-to-end financial capabilities, ensuring new ways of working are embedded effectively and deliver lasting business value. You will oversee the identification and management of risks, issues and dependencies that could impact delivery, while championing improvements across people, processes, technology and data. Through your leadership, you will help create simpler, more efficient and performance-focused ways of working that support NGET's strategic objectives.

What You'll Do

Transformation delivery & adoption

• Lead and coordinate transformation management activities (planning, communications, training and adoption) to deliver financial systems and performance capability improvements.
• Deliver change in line with NGET Transformation standards, using consistent tools and methods.

Stakeholder engagement & requirements

• Build and maintain strong relationships across Finance, EBS, IT/Digital, Regulation and DVs to enable effective collaboration and engagement.
• Capture business needs and performance requirements, ensuring root cause is understood and issues are well defined for prioritisation.

Standardisation & continuous improvement

• Drive cultural and behavioural change to adopt standard ways of working across financial systems and performance capabilities, avoiding individual DV customisation.
• Support evaluation and delivery of continuous improvement and standardisation to increase efficiency and strengthen outcomes.
• Explore and evaluate opportunities via the application of AI to drive efficiencies or increased capability.

Data quality & performance foundations

• Support the business to improve and maintain high-quality data standards required by financial systems and performance processes.

About You

• Broad experience across financial, performance and asset management systems and processes.
• Knowledge of the electricity transmission business, the regulatory framework and stakeholder expectations.
• Experience supporting transformation delivery and change adoption, with a customer- and value-driven mindset.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to motivate and influence diverse teams and stakeholders through change.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify root cause, see the bigger picture and work through detail to remove barriers.
• Ability to understand financial system architecture, enterprise global processes and how they support NGET business outcomes.
• Able to diagnose cross-cutting issues across people, process, technology and data, and shape practical options to address them.
• Able to work across workstreams and delivery units to identify and address divergent or duplicate activities across programmes and projects.
• Resilient and adaptable, comfortable working in dispersed, high-performing and agile teams.

What You'll Get

A competitive salary between £58,000 – £72,000 dependent on capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus of up to 30% of your salary for stretch performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible 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.

More Information

The closing date for this vacancy is 2nd August. However, 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.

In NGET we are passionate about both operating our network safely and providing highly reliable quality of supply for our customers. At the heart of achieving these outcomes is the effective control and operation of our network.

To find out more about us, please follow the link below: 2nd August not applicable here: https://www.nationalgrid.com/electricity-transmission/

DE & I statement

At 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.

Please note that in most cases, National Grid is unable to offer sponsorship for employment under the UK points-based immigration system. As such, applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future under the UK points-based immigration system. However, in exceptional circumstances where there is a clear and demonstrable need for specialist skills that cannot be sourced from the local labour market, National Grid may consider offering sponsorship. All applications are welcome from candidates who meet these requirements, regardless of race, nationality, or ethnic origin.