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To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.
National Grid is hiring a Manager – IT FP&A for our Corporate Finance Department in Waltham, MA.
Job Purpose
The Manager will lead the planning and execution finance transformation initiatives for the FP&A Module. This role is responsible for defining the transformation initiatives roadmap, collaborating closely with leaders across functions/business units and, coordinating and organizing efforts across individual finance transformation workstreams. This role will also help organize events and workshops in a structured way to find opportunities for process improvement and drive initiative planning.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead the development of transformation roadmap following a robust and structured approach to identify/prioritize initiatives aligning with leadership, and coordinate estimation on effort/duration/resources
- Lead, organize, and conduct workshops working with leaders and key partners across business units, and synthesize findings into opportunities/initiatives for the transformation program
- Define and structure the program management approach, and guide initiative leaders to follow through a consistent program management cadences and documentation
- Manage execution of initiatives and coordinate efforts and thinking across workstreams to ensure initiatives are delivered timely, interdependencies across initiatives are supervised, and risks/issues are uncovered and raised to program leaders for resolution
- Lead development of executive-level presentation to report out on initiative progress, drive decision making and work on materials for senior leaders on a regular cadence as well as ad-hoc basis
- Work with Plan to Perform and Record to Report Leaders to define vision, strategy, and goals for the transformation program – both short and long term
- Support the project goal setting process and establish / implement tools and mechanisms to supervise progress and ensure value realization from initiatives
- Participate in initiative team meetings to provide guidance to the initiative teams, to uncover and to help team prioritize issues/risks to resolve, and bring these insights into program level regular meetings
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or related field.
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in a consulting role serving cross-industry clients at a national level, or relative Finance function role(s) within industry.
- Demonstrated capabilities in putting thoughts into executive level materials
- Experience in tracking project goals, risks, and issues, conceptualizing mitigating strategies and presenting the same to senior management
- Intellectually curious and interested in the future of the utility
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Excellent interpersonal, facilitation and presentation skills
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Salary
$118k – $160k a year
This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.
National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.