Cost Controller

Salary up to £30,400 to £38,000 per year (dependant on experience) plus a strong benefits package and career progression opportunities.

Full Time / Permanent Hybrid/Flexible Working Pattern.

At SP Energy Networks, our focus is on harnessing technology and innovation to create the networks of the future. Our team is building a dynamic network to meet the changing demands for electricity and increasingly, renewable electricity – safely, securely and sustainably in the communities we serve.

The role of Cost Controller sits within SPT Commercial and Performance, reporting to the Commercial and Performance Manager. In this role, you will support the management and reporting of internal time writing and agency costs. You will also assist with the preparation of budgets, forecasts along with a number of monthly commercial reports whilst ensuring compliance and key governance processes are followed within the business.

What you’ll be doing:

• Support management of the internal time writing hours for SPT employees, ensuring all employees update information in required timescales.
• Provide reporting, including robust variance analysis, on time writing to senior management.
• Manage agency costs payment process for SPT Major Projects, highlight any variances and issues with the information.
• Preparation of monthly commercial and governance reports including scorecard and performance reports.
• Working closely with Control, prepare agency transfer journals.
• Liaise with 3rd party agency providers over billing issues.
• Support cost forecast process on c700 employees and agency.
• Provide support across SPT Business.
• Update Internal cost information for monthly reporting processes.
• Review and update cost control processes.
• Prepare and validate Inter-business journals ahead of submission to Control.
• Provide training on internal cost processes when required.

What you’ll bring:

• Financial Accounting Certificate or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience of Excel.
• Extensive knowledge of SAP/NAMS/PM/PPM.
• Experience in a Financial Role.
• Awareness of SPEN inter-business relationships.
• Good inter-personal and communication skills and the ability to form effective working relationships with other individuals, departments and businesses.
• Analytical capabilities and experience of working with large volumes of data in a reporting environment.
• Flexible and target orientated.
• Organized and dynamic.

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.

• 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.
• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support.
• Plus, shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more.

Why SP Energy Networks?

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy.

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.

We are 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.

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.