This Management Accountant - Information Service will report to the Management Accountant and will work within Finance based in our Crawley office. You will be a permanent employee.
You will attract a salary of £55,000.00 and a bonus of 7.5%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote.
Close Date: 25/09/2025.
We also provide the following additional benefits
* Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
* Private Health Insurance / SimplyHealth
* Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
* Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
* Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
* Occupational Health support
* Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers\' products
* Discounted gym membership
* Employee Assistance Programme
Overview
Leap into an exciting career with us at an electrifying time in the energy industry! Here, you\'re not just joining any team – you\'re aligning with an Employer of Choice where Finance goes beyond just crunching numbers.
As Management accountant to Customer Service & Innovation directorates, you will be a “one stop shop” for all finance queries – producing the monthly management accounts before delivering insights & analysis on financial performance – ensuring the business know & understand their numbers.
To be successful in this role, you will have experience delivering a month-end process whilst working with the business to ensure the accounts reflect business activity.
You should have experience in communicating complex financial data - ensuring our colleagues in the business understand drivers of financial performance and how we can optimise outputs.
You will work in our Crawley office, although there will be ad-hoc travel to our London office (15 minutes from London Bridge) where some of our Innovation & CS team are based – both for monthly management meetings along with regular business partnering.
Dimensions:
Support Finance is a team of 5 responsible for Business Partnering with 9 “back-office” directorates across UKPN. Support Finance sits within the wider Finance Business Partnering team of 35.
Principal Accountabilities:
* Prepare monthly management accounts which represent company performance.
* Identify and investigate variances to plan and ensure these are communicated clearly, and understood by, the business.
* Deliver value-adding insights on performance to the business.
* Identify opportunities for improved efficiency
* Attendance & contribution to regular management meetings with senior figures from the business.
* Support the annual budget process – ensuring we have clear, achievable budgets linked to benefits and deliverables.
* Help prepare the necessary regulatory submission to Ofgem
Qualifications/Skills:
* Qualified accountant, or near finalist (CIMA/ ACCA/ ACA)
* Confidence to business partner across the business; including to senior figures/ SMT/ EMT.
* Advanced Excel skills (PivotTables, SUMIFs, XLOOKUPs) – ability to improve and automate repeat processes.
* Experience with SQL, PowerQuery, PowerBI & other AI tools is desirable but not essential.
* Experience working in a Regulated industry is desirable but not essential.
Health & Safety Responsibilities
Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.
Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.
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