Senior FP&A Manager - Reporting & Performance
National Grid
About The Role
Senior FP&A Manager - Reporting & Performance
Bristol, Hybrid
Find Your Superpower as Senior FP&A Manager – Reporting & Performance at National Grid!
At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving—but it’s so much more than that. We create an environment where our teams thrive and make a real impact. As we accelerate the energy transition for all, we’re committed to ensuring every employee feels empowered and engaged.
Now, we’re looking for a Senior FP&A Manager – Reporting & Performance to join NGED (National Grid Electricity Distribution) during an exciting transformation. Your superpower? Leading financial and operational reporting that drives strategic decisions and shapes the future of energy.
Location: Warwick or Bristol Avonbank office (around two days per week in-office, with flexibility to suit your working preferences).
If you’re ready to unleash your superpower and make a real difference in the energy sector, join us and be part of something bigger. Together, we are superpowered.
What you'll do
- Lead Management & Financial Reporting: Take ownership of monthly and quarterly performance cycles, producing high-quality reporting packs for Executive and Board audiences. Deliver clear, insightful narratives backed by robust variance analysis to highlight key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Shape Capital Investment Insights: Oversee financial reporting for a £1.5bn annual investment portfolio, ensuring visibility of spend, phasing, and returns. Work closely with finance business partners to track performance against plans and provide actionable insights for decision-making.
- Inspire & Develop Talent: Manage and mentor a small team of reporting analysts, building a culture of accuracy, accountability, and continuous improvement. Present complex financial insights in a clear, impactful way to senior stakeholders, including the CFO and Executive Committee.
- Drive Innovation & Efficiency: Champion automation and dashboard development (e.g., Power BI), enhance data integrity, and streamline FP&A processes. Lead continuous improvement initiatives and support system upgrades or integration projects to strengthen reporting capability.
- Collaborate Across the Business: Partner with finance teams, operational leaders, and project managers to ensure consistency and transparency in financial and project reporting.
What's in it for you
Salary between £77,000 p.a. and £92,000 p.a. depending on experience.
As 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%. You will also receive private medical insurance and the option to a full EV company car or cash alternative. Additionally, you will have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
About you
- You’re a Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with minimum 7+years experience in FP&A, management reporting or financial analysis.
- Ideally, you’ve worked in energy, utilities, infrastructure or other capital-intensive industries and understand the complexity of large-scale investment.
- You’re tech-savvy with strong knowledge of financial systems (E5, Hyperion) and data visualisation tools like Power BI.
- Comfortable handling large, complex data sets, you can consolidate reporting across multiple entities with ease.
- You’ve delivered high-quality management information in big organisations (£500m+ turnover) and know how to make numbers tell a story.
Don’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.
More Information
The closing date for this position is Wednesday 21st January - please ensure we have received your application by this date.
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