Senior Finance Business Partner - Commercial & Ops

National Grid; Waltham (MA); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

National Grid in the United States is hiring a Lead Finance Business Partner to support the Customer organization. This hybrid role can sit in Waltham, MA, Northborough, MA, Syracuse, NY, or Brooklyn, NY, and focuses on operating expenses with awareness of capital investments.

You will provide commercial acumen, challenge priorities, deliver financial guidance, build business cases, forecast and plan with stakeholders, and help align investments with the company strategy while ensuring IFRS/GAAP

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Broad range of financial, management and business modelling experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills with data, logic, and financial insight.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to influence and impact the decisions and financial performance of senior stakeholders and their teams.
• Strong Excel skills with the ability to operate in the detail with the ability to succinctly summarize key insights to a senior audience.
• Experience in utility service business activities is desired but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Support the business in managing annual operating expenses (and where applicable capital investments) to drive desired operational outcomes and performance improvements.
• Drive value in the business by exposing opportunities and insight to drive improvement initiatives.
• Identify and manage financial risks, collaborating closely with relevant operational leaders to ensure appropriate implementation and maintenance of controls.
• Will be accountable for a given area within the Customer organization to deliver business monthly and quarterly performance results on operating expenses and capital expenses (where applicable) with an emphasis on delivering insight and commentary on matters of importance and forward thinking financial and operational impacts.
• Partner with business leadership in the development of business cases and other strategic or transformational initiatives to ensure all current and future investments are in line with business strategy and value requirements.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with the US Customer business leaders, their teams, finance colleagues, and other internal teams.
• Contribute to short term forecasting and long long-term business planning for business-as-usual activities, transformational projects, collaborating with stakeholders across the business, linking operational activity and to financial investment.
• Understand the regulatory structure of the US business and how this impacts the Customer organization (along with IFRS and GAAP accounting), collaborating with regulatory and finance colleagues on assessment of rate case changes, application to decision making, and impact to future activities.
• Collaborate with other FBPs on training and best practices to drive efficiencies in activities and improved outcomes, demonstrating continuous improvement.

Skills

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Excel skills

Strategic thinking

Financial modelling

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

National Grid in the United States is hiring a Lead Finance Business Partner to support the Customer organization. This hybrid role can sit in Waltham, MA, Northborough, MA, Syracuse, NY, or Brooklyn, NY, and focuses on operating expenses with awareness of capital investments.

You will provide commercial acumen, challenge priorities, deliver financial guidance, build business cases, forecast and plan with stakeholders, and help align investments with the company strategy while ensuring IFRS/GAAP