Senior Financial Operations Accountant - Team Manager

At the forefront of the energy transition, Ofgem is working to protect consumers and ensure a fair, affordable and sustainable energy system. We’re now looking for a Senior Finance Operations Accountant – Team Manager to ensure our financial operations are transparent, compliant, and equipped to support change across the energy industry. We’re offering a permanent opportunity to lead a vital internal function within our organisation.

As part of our Corporate Finance senior team, you’ll manage and evolve our finance operations (purchase to pay and order to cash), championing best practice and providing exemplary leadership. This is a high-impact role with the scope to influence decision-making, manage change, and enhance service delivery across our finance landscape. You’ll act in a key capacity, driving day-to-day operations and projects, contributing to instilling robust financial controls, and serving as a trusted partner across the organisation. Your work will play a direct role in ensuring we can achieve our goals.

We’re looking for a fully CCAB qualified finance professional with significant post-qualified experience in a senior finance role. You’ll bring deep knowledge of technical finance policies and processes, strong leadership skills, and the ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences alike. Experience with payment scrutiny, dispute resolution, stakeholder management and third-party funds will also be important. You’ll benefit from working in a dynamic, purpose-driven organisation that champions development and flexibility.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, lead, and direct finance operations team (including direct line management of approx. 2 team leaders) to ensure conducted in an efficient and effective manner.
• Oversee complete, accurate and timely processing and receipt of payments across multiple systems and bank accounts.
• Actively scrutinise payments and direct the team on disputes and aged balances.
• Set out a clear and compliant process to be followed to give assurance on accuracy and integrity of financial data and records.
• Manage internal and external finance ops reporting, including responses to freedom of information requests and publication of transparency data.
• Lead the finance operations service provision and strive for continuous improvement and finance transformation.
• Provide advice in line with managing public money, including advance of need assessments, special payments, compliance with cabinet office controls and identification of financial losses.
• Be a key influencer in defining the needs in any system change or process improvement in relation to purchase to pay, order to cash and general ledger/chart of accounts setup.

Person Specification:

• Fully CCAB qualified with up to date CPD and relevant post qualified experience in a senior finance role.
• Strong planning and prioritisation skills, with the ability to organise and manage a diverse workload and team.
• Experience in service delivery within an accounts payable/credit control environment including compliance monitoring, dispute resolution, SLAs and KPIs.
• Highly effective leadership, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate and collaborate with a range of staff, customers/suppliers and other stakeholders including auditors.
• Strong transactional and technical accounting skills, policy ownership and ability to communicate complex financial or tax information and advice clearly and succinctly to a wide range of audiences.