Deputy Director of Corporate Finance

Base

Location:

You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations:
London (other locations such as Glasgow, Perth, Dublin and Reading would be considered however significant travel will be required to London)

Salary: £Competitive + car allowance + performance-related bonus and a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern:
Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

This is a senior leadership opportunity at the heart of the Group’s financial strategy, with significant influence over some of its most important investment, financing and strategic decisions. As Deputy Director of Corporate Finance, you’ll work closely with the Director of Corporate Finance and senior leaders across the business, bringing commercial insight, sound judgement and a collaborative perspective to complex opportunities and decisions.

You’ll help shape the Group’s long‑term financial direction, combining strong financial expertise with an understanding of the wider commercial landscape. Through trusted relationships, thoughtful challenge and clear recommendations, you’ll support high‑quality decision‑making and help ensure the Group continues to allocate capital effectively to deliver its strategic ambitions.

• Act as deputy to the Group Director of Corporate Finance, leading the team and representing the function at Group Executive Committee and Board level when required.
• Support the Group’s long‑term financial strategy, planning and funding, including credit ratings, cost of capital, hurdle rates and capital allocation.
• Support Group valuation, defence planning and investment appraisal, ensuring robust assumptions, returns, scenarios and commercial challenge.
• Lead acquisitions and disposals from initial appraisal through due diligence, structuring, negotiation, approval, and completion.
• Build strong relationships across SSE’s business units and provide clear recommendations on financing, transactions, investment priorities, and major capital decisions.
• Interface with Strategy, Treasury, and IR to optimise financial strategy, funding decisions, and external financial narrative.
• Provide visible and inclusive leadership across Corporate Finance, developing capability, supporting talent and building a high‑performing, collaborative team.

• Significant experience leading complex acquisitions, disposals and other major transactions within investment banking, lead advisory or a comparable organisation.
• Advanced expertise in valuation, financial modelling, investment appraisal, project finance and transaction execution.
• Strong understanding of long‑term funding, credit ratings, cost of capital, hurdle rates, and capital allocation.
• Proven commercial judgement, with the ability to lead negotiations, challenge assumptions and make clear recommendations on major investment decisions.
• Strong team leadership and senior stakeholder management experience, ideally within the energy sector or another capital‑intensive industry, supported by a CFA, ACA or equivalent qualification.

SSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.

We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro‑electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.

Our investment plan will see SSE invest £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030.

Our Finance teams create value for all SSE business areas and play a key role in fulfilling…