ScottishPower HQ, 320 St Vincent Street, Glasgow. G2 5AD
Salary from £42,800 with 10% Annual Bonus and Single Person Healthcare
Flexible Working Pattern
Closing Date: 5th March
Interviews are anticipated w/c 17th March
Purpose
As General Services Performance Accountant, you will monitor all aspects of General Services UK budget, External Services, Income, Capital and Right of Use expenditure. Your key responsibility will be producing reports with supporting analysis to ensure effective budget management.
General Services is Corporate Function that provides an array of Land, Estate, Building and Employee Services to all locations in ScottishPower and all employees.
Responsibilities
Being responsible for the accurate reporting of expenditure against a Totex budget circa £60m (Opex circa £20m, Capex circa £40m including ROU processing), you will be required to provide a comprehensive analysis of all financial and non-financial business performance on a monthly basis.
Assisting with the management of stakeholders within our Corporate business area and across our Group to ensure expectations are met regarding submission of results, you will produce budget and forecast data which is accurate and efficiently loaded to SAP and Teams, reporting in line with set deadlines.
Preparing all relevant and accurate supporting commentaries and analysis for reporting requirements, you will be required to maintain and demonstrate a good accounting knowledge, helping ensure costs are accurately and efficiently reflected in the general ledger and related accounting models.
Playing an active part with key business issues, ensuring financial implications are fully understood and considered, you will monitor financial performance to enable progress towards business objectives, confirming key performance indicators are clearly reported.
What you’ll bring
Educated with a Chartered Accountancy (CA) qualification or possessing an equivalent qualification through experience, you will possess an understanding of FRS16 to support the management and processing of Right of Use (ROU).
Possessing practical experience with SAP, you will have a strong delivery focus and a high level of resilience to deal with the continually changing demands and time pressures of the role. Allowing you to produce accurate analysis and reporting within significant timeframes and workloads, being highly numerate with strong analytical skills, possessing the ability to present financial information clearly and concisely to all stakeholders.
Utilising your strong influencing and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively, you will be comfortable when constructively challenging across the organisation.
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 - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:
- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
- Payroll giving and charity matched funding
- Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
- Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
- Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
- Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
- Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
- Life Assurance (4x salary)
- Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
- Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
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 a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
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.
IMPORTANT
Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below
March-6-2025
