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You will be accountable for the completeness, accuracy, and integrity of the general ledger across the ET and SI Business Units and the NGET statutory company. You will lead the controllership function, ensuring the delivery of accurate financial results, insightful reporting, and commentary that enables the Controller, Business Unit CFO, and leadership teams to make informed business decisions. You will drive strong governance through a robust SOx-compliant control environment, build effective partnerships with Business Services, and lead the local implementation of IFRS 18 and IFRS 20.\nThis is a role is based out of our Warwick office. We’d hope to see you in the office at least two/three days per week, with flexibility to discuss working patterns that help the role work effectively for you and the team.\nWhat You'll Do\nTake full ownership for and lead the Business Unit Financial Reporting, including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow and relevant interim and year end disclosures for the relevant entity.\nDelivering accuracy, integrity and completeness of actuals to reflect the business circumstances for both ET and SI\nProvide insightful narrative on key financial reports and Business Unit reports.\nTo support the delivery of change across finance and the business, role-modelling new ways of working and owning delivery of key outcomes to drive the improvement of long-term business capability.\nProactively seek opportunities to drive continuous improvement in processes through the implementation of best practice, drawing on external sources and internal references, to drive increased value for National Grid.\nDelivery of on time and high-quality financial inputs to the regulatory reporting pack through liaison with the Regulation team, the RIIO Optimisation team within Finance and FBPs to ensure smooth integration of deliverables into business submissions.\nAct as a key point of contact to Executive leaders in the UK regulated businesses on all matters relating to Entity Financial actual performance and plans, acting as an advisor to and facilitator between business and finance teams and providing adhoc analysis.\nKey point of contact into the EBS model, reflecting hybrid ways of working influencing and steering output of EBS teams in line with controllership requirements.\nResponsible for defining and executing appropriate financial controls.\nSupport delivery of control roadmap, leaning into support control remediation and providing technical insight when required.\nAccountable for the allocations process to ensure cost allocations are efficient, understood and in line with regulatory requirements.\nPrepare required papers for the audit committee and boards as required, including summarising accounting and technical issues\nAct as the main point of contact for the day to day running of the Deloitte audit, ensuring clarity on timetables, understanding of deliverables and liasing across the Finance and Business Services team to support audit requirements.\nWhat You'll Have\nFully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA etc).\nExcellent analytical skills and attention to detail.\nExcellent oral and written communication skills.\nProactive self-starter with ability to manage own and team workload, to time and desired levels of quality.\nAbility to challenge the status quo.\nIndustry experience preferable.\nExperience in reporting financial information.\nExperience in SOX controls.\nExperience in building and leading teams.\nDon’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.\nWhat You'll Get\nCompetitive Base Salary dependant on capability.\nAs well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance with on target being 20% (with a maximum of 40%) and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%, Private Medical Insurance, A company electric vehicle or cash alternative, plus many more flexible 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.\nFurther Information\nThe closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 24 November 26, with interviews due to take place w/c 30 December 26 onwards. We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.\nAbout us\nEvery day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business\nAt National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. 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