We’re looking for a passionate Finance Business Partner to join our CFO Functions. As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in supporting, challenging, and driving the strategic and financial decisions of the organisation, ensuring alignment with overarching goals. Your focus will be on fostering sustainable performance improvement by leveraging data-driven insights and collaborating closely with stakeholders to identify opportunities for growth and efficiency.
If you’re looking for a role with purpose, our Finance team is at the heart of the energy transition, delivering excellence and shaping the future of energy. We seek business partners who can strategically collaborate and lead colleagues to deliver improvements, using strong analytical skills to drive commercial success. You will solve real challenges alongside talented colleagues, helping to deliver financial frameworks and access cost drivers.
This isn’t just a job—it's a mission to bring your financial insight to a growing company!
Apply now and help shape the future of energy.
What You'll Do
* Engage with stakeholders internally and externally to understand best practices and influence decision makers.
* Contribute to each business area to impact the shape of commercial and non-financial performance-related decisions.
* Support continuous improvement and performance excellence activities, consistently achieving strong results.
* Drive management of performance, financial risks, and the implementation & maintenance of controls.
* Define value, key drivers that create value, and KPIs to measure value; ensure these inform performance management, decision making, and planning.
* Present monthly results in a style suitable for both finance and non-finance audiences, delivering insights and highlighting priority areas.
* Act as the finance lead on investment appraisal processes, guiding decision-making with insights and optimization opportunities aligned with business strategy and value requirements.
* Support financial responses to price controls and maximize allowances for ongoing infrastructure and service investments.
* Foster effective working relationships across Finance and Business Services, aligning services with business needs.
* Participate in developing and maintaining a cohesive Finance & Business Services team, contributing to the implementation of CFO priorities and creating a high-performing community.
About us
Every day, we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us most. We connect people to the energy they need for their lives. Society and our industry are evolving rapidly, and our expertise positions us to shape a sustainable future. To succeed, we must anticipate customer needs, reduce delivery costs, and pioneer flexible energy systems. We aim to deliver on our promises and explore new growth opportunities, both for ourselves and our business.
At National Grid, we uphold high standards in supporting, valuing, and developing our people. We encourage diversity and offer flexible, tailored support at home and in the office. Our goal is to foster an inclusive culture where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their potential.
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