Lead Finance Business Partner

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.

At National Grid, we aim to create an environment where everyone is welcomed for who they are and where our differences are celebrated. We utilize the insights of our employees that come from all different cultures, backgrounds, and beliefs to better serve our customers and communities.

National Grid is hiring a Lead Finance Business Partner. This hybrid role can sit in our either our Waltham MA, Northboro MA or Brooklyn NY location.

The Lead Finance Business Partner supports the US Customer organization and is responsible for providing commercial acumen, challenging strategic and financial priorities, and delivering financial guidance and insight to Customer leadership to enable decisions delivering improvements to operational and financial performance. The focus of the role is primarily on operating expense but requires understanding of project capital expenses.

• 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.
• 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-term business planning for business-as-usual activities, transformational projects, collaborating with stakeholders across the business.
• 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.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Broad range of financial, management and business modelling experience
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills - proven record in managing conflicting stakeholder interests.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills with an ability to identify key issues and recommend solutions to complex problems using 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 throughout the relevant business area.
• 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 and systems is desired but not essential.