Lead Business Partner, Finance Business Partnering
About The Position
The Lead Finance Business Partner supports National Grid’s US Customer organization by providing commercial acumen, challenging strategic and financial priorities, and delivering financial guidance and insight to Customer leadership to support decisions that improve operational and financial performance. The role focuses primarily on operating expenses and also requires an understanding of project capital expenses. It is a hybrid position based in Waltham or Northboro, Massachusetts; Syracuse, New York; or Brooklyn, New York. The successful candidate will support financial management and performance reporting, identify improvement opportunities and financial risks, and partner with business leadership on planning, business cases, and strategic initiatives. The role also requires understanding the US business’s regulatory structure and relevant IFRS and GAAP accounting, and collaborating across finance, regulatory, and operational teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Broad range of financial, management, and business-modelling experience.
- Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills, with a proven record of managing conflicting stakeholder interests.
- Demonstrated critical-thinking skills and ability to identify key issues and recommend solutions to complex problems using data, logic, and financial insight.
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to influence senior stakeholders and their teams and affect decisions and financial performance throughout the relevant business area.
- Strong Excel skills and the ability to work in detail and succinctly summarize key insights for a senior audience.
- Ability to work without current or future visa sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in utility service business activities and systems is desired but not essential.
Responsibilities
- Support management of annual operating expenses and, where applicable, capital investments to drive operational outcomes and performance improvements.
- Identify opportunities and insights that can drive business improvement initiatives.
- Identify and manage financial risks, working with operational leaders to implement and maintain appropriate controls.
- Deliver monthly and quarterly business performance results for an assigned area of the Customer organization, covering operating expenses and applicable capital expenses, with insight and commentary on important matters and forward-looking financial and operational impacts.
- Partner with business leadership on business cases and strategic or transformational initiatives, ensuring current and future investments align with business strategy and value requirements.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with US Customer business leaders and their teams, finance colleagues, and other internal teams.
- Contribute to short-term forecasting and long-term business planning for business-as-usual activities and transformational projects, linking operational activity to financial investment and collaborating with stakeholders across the business.
- Understand the regulatory structure of the US business and its impact on the Customer organization, including IFRS and GAAP accounting; collaborate with regulatory and finance colleagues on rate case changes, their application to decision-making, and impacts on future activities.
- Collaborate with other Finance Business Partners on training and best practices to improve efficiency and outcomes through continuous improvement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
