Director of Capital & Investment

National Grid plc; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Director of Capital & Investment to lead financial oversight and processes for significant projects. This role involves managing a large team while collaborating with senior stakeholders to ensure accurate reporting and strategic financial leadership. The position offers a hybrid working model, allowing for flexibility while ensuring high-quality outputs. With a competitive salary and attractive benefits, this opportunity is perfect for a proactive self-starter eager to drive improvements and contribute to the sustainable future of energy delivery.

Benefits

Up to 20% Annual Bonus

28 days annual leave

Full electric company car or cash alternative

Private Medical Insurance

Generous contributory pension scheme

Financial support for professional memberships

Life Insurance 10 x base salary

Family care benefits

Health and fitness apps access

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with significant experience in financial reporting and stakeholder management.
• Strong experience in MS Excel and SAP is key to the role.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial oversight and processes related to ET SI and IT, ensuring accuracy and quality.
• Build and manage a high-performing team while driving continuous improvement.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Financial Reporting

Planning and Forecasting

Team Leadership

Process Improvement

Results Orientation

Adaptability

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

Tools

MS Excel

SAP

Job description

Division: Capital Accounting Business Process

Job Type:

Requisition Number: 63030

Department: Finance

Job Function: Finance and Risk

We are seeking 3 highly motivated and detail-oriented individuals to take on the roles of Director of Capital & Investment for ET, SI and IT. This position will be responsible for the overall ownership, review, and challenge of processes, investment numbers, and performance for the ET, SI and IT delivery vehicles. The individual will be the key contact for Senior Finance and Business stakeholders with regard to process, output and delivery within the delivery vehicles. The role will be managing a large team (15+, ET 35+) based across the UK and India.

This role will work hand in hand with Directors and Leaders of National Grid’s Electricity Transmission business, responsible for delivering the biggest upgrade that National Grid has seen in decades.

This role is based out of our Warwick office, and we’d hope to see you at least two days per week but you’re welcome to be in the office more often if that would work best for you. We’re happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that you feel could help to make this job work for you!

What You'll Do

• Lead the ownership and oversight of processes related to ET SI and IT, ensuring accuracy and quality in output and reporting.
• Provide financial leadership for all finance-related matters, financial challenge and support across the ET and SI Investment Accounting teams.
• Serve as the primary contact for Senior Finance and Business stakeholders regarding process, output, and delivery within the delivery vehicles.
• Produce and deliver accurate and complete forecasts across projects and capital accounting.
• Deliver insight and commentary to the Lead/Entity Controllers, Lead/Senior Business Partners, FP&A, UKFC and other relevant leaders within the organization.
• Drive process improvements, by challenging the status quo, to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across the team.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality reporting to support decision-making and performance evaluation.
• Collaborate closely with the finance leadership team to align on priorities, deliverables, and overall output.
• Build, manage, and develop a high-performing team, building strong development and succession.
• 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.
• Proactively seek opportunities to drive continuous improvement in processes through the implementation of best practices, drawing on external sources and internal references, to drive increased value for National Grid.
• Deliver on-time and high-quality 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.

What You'll Have

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with post-qualified experience at a senior level.
• Significant experience in reporting financial information, as well as planning, forecasting, and budgeting across a variety of projects.
• Experience interacting and managing a broad range of stakeholders and working across multiple teams to deliver objectives and commercial decisions with relevant financial information.
• Comfortable leading and working as part of a virtual team and prepared to travel to sites on an adhoc basis.
• Experience working within a Record to Report/Business Services function, understanding the various upstream and downstream data and processes.
• Strong experience in MS Excel and SAP is key to the role.
• Good understanding of core financial processes.
• Proactive self-starter with the ability to manage own workload, to time and desired levels of quality.
• Pragmatic, can adapt quickly to a changing environment and can adapt approaches and utilize and align skills to different customer groups.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing and collaboration skills.
• Strong results orientation.

What You'll Get

Competitive salary dependent on experience.

Plus:

• Up to 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
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days)
• Access to apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing

Further Information

This is a hybrid working role from our Warwick office with circa 2 days in the office. The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 14 February 25, with interviews due to take place w/c 24 February 25 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.

About us

Every 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.

Inclusion and Diversity is not just about race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. It is about our employees who wake up every day to serve our 20 million customers. At National Grid, we aim to create an environment where everyone is welcomed for who they are and where our differences are not only accepted but are celebrated. We understand the value that a diverse team can add to our organization and that is why we model inclusive behavior starting with senior leadership. National Grid utilizes the insights of our employees that come from all different cultures, backgrounds, and beliefs to better serve our customers and communities who are in the forefront of everything we do.