Finance Support Business Partner

You’ll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations :

Glasgow, Perth or Aberdeen

£44,000 - £65,900 + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The Finance Support Business Partner will support the Senior Finance Manager, providing end-to-end finance support across the Networks directorate. This is a broad and varied role combining business partnering, management reporting and financial planning and analysis.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Networks at a time of ambitious growth, with significant investment across the business creating opportunities to gain broad exposure, develop your experience and help shape how Finance supports the directorate.

You will work closely with Networks leadership teams, building a strong understanding of the business and ensuring financial performance, key movements, risks and opportunities are clearly understood. The role will combine delivering high-quality financial reporting with looking ahead,helping the business plan, prioritise and make informed decisions.

You will also work closely with the Capital Investment & Financial Control Finance teams along with other key internal stakeholders and our Regulator, Ofgem. The need to understand how the business operates and the nature of our regulatory obligations under our RIIO price controls are a key aspect of this role as well as providing support and robust challenge to colleagues.

You’ll also have the opportunity to work across the capital projects portfolio and regulatory environment, as well as helping to establish and develop financial reporting for the new price control period alongside the Senior Finance Manager.

Deliver high-quality monthly financial reporting for the Networks directorate, providing clear insight into performance, key movements, risks and opportunities.

Support the budgeting, forecasting and longer-term financial planning processes across Networks.
Help prepare and continually improve the monthly Networks management pack, ensuring it focuses on the key messages and information required to support decision-making.

Attend monthly Networks directorate meetings, developing a strong understanding of business priorities and using this context to provide relevant financial insight and support.

Work closely with leadership teams and other non-finance stakeholders, providing financial support, constructive challenge and helping colleagues understand the financial impact of decisions.

Work across the capital projects portfolio, collaborating with project and finance teams to understand project performance and help establish the appropriate regulatory allowances and funding treatment.

A recognised professional accountancy qualification, or currently working towards qualification, such as ICAS, ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW or CIPFA.

Experience of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting or financial planning, with the ability to understand and explain key financial movements.

Strong Excel capability, with experience of building or developing financial models, complex workbooks or reporting tools. We are particularly interested in understanding how you have used Excel to solve problems or improve financial analysis.

Confidence using technology and an interest in using Microsoft Copilot, AI and other digital tools to improve the efficiency and quality of finance processes.

A proactive and problem-solving approach, with the ability to see the bigger picture, identify what matters most and translate detailed financial analysis into clear insight and actions for the business.

The ability to manage competing…