Senior Financial Accountant
ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow (hybrid)
Salary from £55,000 + up to 15% bonus, single cover private healthcare & other excellent benefits
Full-time, permanent position
Closing date – 27th of May 2026
The Senior Financial Accountant in Scottish Power Energy Networks will report into and serve as a deputy to the Accounting Manager. They will lead core financial accounting activity, ensuring all actuals are recorded with precision and delivered on time. Acting as a senior anchor within the team, the Senior Financial Accountant will drive delivery of collective objectives and support colleagues. The role will include responsibility for the day-to-day management of a Year in Industry student within the team. The role sits in a growing business, requiring adaptability, proactive thinking, and a focus on maintaining a positive team culture.
What you’ll be doing
Group Statutory Accounts and Subsidiary Accounts
- In line with group timeline and instructions, lead in the preparation of all non-financial disclosures at the subsidiary account level
- Serve as a senior point of contact for external audit and the Group external reporting team
Contracts Review
- Complete accounting analysis of complex contracts to ensure correct statutory accounting treatment
- Analysis includes accounting judgement areas such as capex vs opex classification, cloud computing, accounting for joint operations, and accounting for embedded derivatives
Business Specific
- Contribute to the maintenance of ledger integrity by ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance with group policies
- Ensure costs are recorded to support regulatory reporting requirements
- Oversee the overhead recovery model process
- Oversee the accurate release of deferred income and rechargeable activity
- Perform analysis on the fixed asset ledger to understand key movements and resolve issues
- Oversee any accounting entries and reporting required in relation to Joint Operations companies
- Carry out detailed trial balance analysis at an FI company level, highlighting and resolving issues (includes key account reconciliations)
General
- Promote positive business conduct by constructively challenging misaligned behaviours
- Continually challenge all key steps within supporting business processes, seeking to make improvements and enhancements where necessary
- Continually challenge current business processes to deliver efficiencies and support the scalable growth of the Energy Networks business
- Promote a positive attitude to change through change processes
- Take part in cross-business and cross-functional projects and meetings to contribute to the overall achievement of objectives as required
What you’ll bring
- Qualified Accountant with experience of Financial/Transactional disciplines
- Strong analytical and accounting skills with a high degree of precision and accuracy
- Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple priorities
- Confidence and ability to constructively challenge stakeholders
- Communicating effectively with staff at different levels of the organisation
- Effective working style which engenders strong team spirit and fosters a positive working environment
- Working knowledge of relevant accounting systems
- Flexible working style
- Displays an ability to apply initiative to deliver solutions to complex issues and works with team members to resolve them
- Ability to assimilate complex issues and then communicate strategic implications thereof so as to influence and inform senior and executive decision-making
Minimum Criteria
- Qualified Accountant
- Strong management, influencing and interpersonal skills, with proven ability to communicate effectively at all organisational levels
- Strong technical accounting and commercial knowledge, with proven ability to apply these to resolve complex issues
- Spreadsheet modelling skills
What’s in it for you
- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday purchase – 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 purposes
- 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
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