Senior Performance Accountant

ScottishPower; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company is seeking a Senior Performance Accountant in Glasgow. This hybrid role involves delivering critical reporting processes for OPEX and CAPEX. The successful candidate will collaborate with stakeholders to monitor financial performance and ensure robust reporting processes are in place. Required qualifications include being a fully qualified accountant with significant PQE and strong analytical skills. Competitive salary and numerous benefits are offered, including a 15% bonus and health care options.

Benefits

36 days annual leave

Technology Vouchers

Electric Vehicle Schemes

Life Assurance (4x salary)

Healthcare benefit options

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant with relevant PQE.
• Confidence to challenge decisions constructively at all levels.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders for budget and forecasts.
• Ensure accurate loading of budgets and forecasts into SAP.
• Monitor performance, providing in-depth analysis and insights.
• Lead preparation of financial packs and commentary.

Skills

Strong communicator

Proactive and solutions-focused

Self-starter

Strong analytical skills

Education

Qualified accountant with significant PQE

Tools

SAP

Job description

Senior Performance Accountant

Salary starting from £52,400 + up to 15% bonus & single cover private medical

ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow (hybrid)

Permanent, full-time position

Closing date: 21st of January

Help us create a better future, quicker

The Senior Performance Accountant is key to the delivery of critical reporting processes, including annual budget, quarterly forecast and monthly reported, for OPEX and CAPEX in the UK Renewables Business. The role is responsible for delivering comprehensive analysis and insightful commentary to support the Performance Manager in submissions to the SPR Leadership Team, SP and IBR Control.

Partnering with the business, you will monitor and challenge financial performance, ensuring robust results with sound underlying assumptions. Building strong relationships across SPR Business, and wider SPR Control teams you will ensure implementation of efficient reporting processes whilst maintaining consistency and meeting SP and IBR Control requirements.

A key element of the role is driving financial governance, by ensuring budget compliance through robust availability control management.

What you ll be doing

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to deliver the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly reported positions
• Ensure accurate loading of budgets and forecasts into SAP, maintaining data integrity and compliance
• Monitor and challenge OPEX and CAPEX performance, providing in-depth analysis and insights to give stakeholders a clear view of business performance through monthly reviews. Take ownership of complex P&L and Capex elements
• Lead the preparation of PRM packs and supporting analysis, delivering clear financial commentary to inform stakeholder understanding.
• Prepare executive and board report inputs to support senior leadership communication
• Drive continuous improvement or reporting processes, introducing automation to streamline processes
• Coordinate Flash Reporting process for review by the Performance Manager and submission to Group Control
• Manage OPEX and CAPEX reallocations in SAP as required by the business, maintaining compliance and data integrity
• Perform semi-annual internal reviews of availability control to validate accuracy and adherence to governance standards
• Review weekly, Budget and forecast cash flows to ensure the requirements of Treasury and Group Control are met, providing commentary as required
• Perform consistency and reasonableness checks on cashflow submissions to ensure accuracy while meeting internal deadlines.
• Act as deputy for Performance Manager when required
• Provide line management and development support for the Year in Industry student, fostering growth and engagement
• Promote a collaborative and positive team culture within the Performance team and across the wider SPR Control teams
• Provide ad-hoc support to stakeholders across Control and the SP Business to deliver timely and effective solutions
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis to support senior management decision-making

What you ll bring

• Fully qualified accountant with relevant PQE
• Strong communicator at all levels; ability to explain variances in results and forecasts in a clearly and concisely to Senior Management
• Proactive and solutions-focused; anticipates issues and implements effective strategies to resolve them
• Self-starter: ability to identify and deliver process improvements whilst prioritise workload effectively
• Confidence and capable of constructively challenge at all levels to drive performance
• Sound understanding of control environments and ability to embed these to working practices
• Commercially aware, self-motivated individual who takes decisions confidently and move issues forward.
• Delivery focus and resilience, able to manage changing priorities and time pressures effectively
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interrogate SAP and other relevant IT systems

Minimum Criteria

• Qualified accountant with significant PQE
• Exceptional communicator, adept at engaging with financial and non-financial stakeholders across all organisational levels
• Extensive knowledge of key financial processes and associated policies and procedures
• Ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines
• Pro-active and solutions oriented, anticipates issues and problems and puts into place effective strategies to resolve
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interrogate SAP and other relevant IT systems

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers scottishpower.com .