Senior Performance Accountant (Group)

Location: ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow (Hybrid)

Salary: From £66,000 per annum, up to 20% bonus, car allowance, private family medical cover + other excellent benefits

Permanent

Help us create a better future, quicker

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Performance Accountant to join our Group Business Performance team. This is a highly visible role at the centre of ScottishPower's financial performance reporting, providing critical insight to senior leadership teams across the business and Iberdrola.

You'll play a key role in delivering high-quality management reporting, forecasts and budgets, helping decision-makers understand performance and drive strategic outcomes. Working closely with stakeholders across the organisation, you'll influence business planning, strengthen reporting processes and contribute to the financial reporting that supports ScottishPower's journey towards a cleaner, smarter energy future.

What you'll be doing

You'll lead the consolidation and reporting of monthly performance results, quarterly forecasts and annual budgets for the ScottishPower Group. Working with colleagues across Finance and the wider business, you'll ensure robust reporting processes are delivered accurately and on time while managing key relationships with Iberdrola and senior internal stakeholders.

You'll support the production of Board, Management Committee and Group reporting packs, providing clear analysis and commentary that helps explain business performance. You'll also play an important role in developing reporting processes, maintaining relevant performance measures and ensuring financial systems are prepared for each reporting cycle.

What you'll bring

You'll be a qualified accountant with significant post-qualification experience in financial reporting, performance management or a control environment. You'll enjoy working with complex financial information and translating it into meaningful insight for senior stakeholders.

You'll also bring:

• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of business performance drivers.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing complex reporting, forecasting or budgeting processes.
• Confidence engaging with senior stakeholders and challenging constructively when required.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Experience using SAP, BPC or similar financial consolidation and reporting systems.
• A collaborative approach and commitment to continuous improvement.

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action, our benefits are designed to help you do just that.

Benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase scheme
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers
• Electric Vehicle Schemes
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Financial wellbeing support
• Shopping, leisure and gym discounts

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and an ambition to achieve Net Zero, we're investing in the energy infrastructure of the future while creating exciting career opportunities for our people.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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