Controller Role for National Grid

3 weeks ago


Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom National Grid Full time
About this Opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity to join National Grid as a Financial Controller, based in our Warwick office. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing key controls, governance, and assurance by ensuring the integrity of the reporting and control environment is maintained.

As a Financial Controller, you will work closely with finance and business stakeholders to ensure adequate insight is available to business leads. This role requires a proactive self-starter who can manage their own and team workload, to time and desired levels of quality.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Be accountable for TSA office for FSO for all global functions.
  • Develop and maintain regional policies on allocations with a regulatory and controllership view.
  • Create and maintain policy on what costs should reside in the corporate centre, guidance on what should/shouldn't get allocated to business units, balance sheet and investment guidance, etc.
  • Establish a policy on capitalisation/A&G as well as tracking costs that do get capitalized and charged across business units to keep tabs on the 'true cost' (ie CAPEX and OPEX) of functions.
  • Define the 'controllable costs' policy for functions (or any revision to the KPI for functions). Director of Assurance (DOA) for changes to the policy sits with the Group Financial Controller.
  • Provide a bridge and overview between the financial and managerial financial statements and develop a top-down view of performance.
  • Review and challenge budgets and provide input in terms of risks and opportunities for delivery.
  • Develop the linkages between regulatory requirements, financial plans, managerial performance and statutory reporting.
  • Maintain overall supervision of the control environment within global functions, ensuring that risk and controls recommendations are implemented.
  • BUILD EFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND DEVELOP A STRONG NETWORK WITHIN BOTH OWN FUNCTIONAL AREA AND THE BUSINESS THEY SUPPORT.

About You

  • You must have a Fully Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CPA etc.) qualification.
  • You must have experience in reporting financial information.
  • You must be a proactive self-starter with ability to manage own and team workload, to time and desired levels of quality.
  • You must have experience in building and leading teams

What We Offer

  • Up to $130,000 per annum salary.
  • 20% Annual Bonus (based on personal and company performance).
  • 28 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days in addition.
  • A full electric company car or cash alternative.
  • Private Medical Insurance.
  • The option to buy additional or sell holiday days every year.
  • A generous contributory pension scheme - we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
  • Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions.
  • Life Insurance 10 x base salary.
  • Access to 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.


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