Performance Accountant

Job Details

Job Title: Performance Accountant
Location: Head Office, St Vincent Street, Glasgow
Title of Line Manager Performance Manager

Main Purpose of Role

The Performance Accountant is part of a team responsible for delivering critical reporting processes, including the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly reporting for operating costs, capital expenditure, depreciation, and decommissioning provisions across the UK Renewables business. In this role, you will support senior team members and management in the delivery of these outputs.
Your will be responsible for providing clear analysis and insightful commentary to support the Performance Manager in submissions to ScottishPower (SP) and Iberdrola (IBR) Control.
Working closely with the business, you will monitor and challenge both financial and non-financial performance, ensuring results are robust and supported by sound assumptions. You will build strong relationships across the SPR business and wider Control teams, helping to implement efficient reporting processes while maintaining consistency and meeting SP and IBR requirements.

Responsibilities

Reported, Budgets & Forecasts
- Work closely with business stakeholders to deliver the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly reporting outputs
- Ensure budgets and forecasts are accurately loaded into SAP, maintaining data integrity and compliance with internal standards
- Monitor and challenge OPEX and CAPEX performance, providing clear analysis and insight to support monthly performance reviews
- Support the preparation of financial performance reporting packs and analysis, to inform stakeholder understanding.
- Drive continuous improvement or reporting processes, introducing automation to streamline processes

Budgetary Control
- Manage OPEX and CAPEX Budgets in SAP in line with business requirements, ensuring compliance with internal policies and maintaining data integrity.
- Perform semi-annual internal reviews of Budget control to validate accuracy and adherence to governance standards

Cashflow
- Prepare a weekly SPR cashflow forecast to Treasury to support effective cash management.
- Contribute to the preparation and review of quarterly forecasts and the annual budget

Team
- Deputise for Senior Performance Accountant when required
- Provide support for the Year in Industry and summer placement students
- Contribute to a positive team culture within the Performance team and across the wider SPR Control teams

Other
- Provide ad hoc support to stakeholders across Control and the wider SP business, delivering timely and effective solutions
- Undertake ad hoc analysis to support senior management decision-making

Role Scope and Context
- Understand key drivers of business performance, with the ability to assess impacts on SP and IBR reporting
- Be proficient in SAP to support budgeting, forecasting, and reporting activities, operating within established processes and controls
- Work closely with teams across the SPR business and Control functions to support delivery of annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly reporting within agreed timelines
- Build and maintain effective working relationships across the SP Renewables business and wider Control teams
- Communicate confidently with stakeholders at all levels

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

- Effective communicator, with the ability to clearly and concisely explain financial results and forecast variances to senior management
- Proactive and solutions-focused, with the ability to anticipate issues and implement effective resolutions
- Self-motivated with the ability to prioritise workload effectively and deliver process improvements
- Confident in constructively challenging stakeholders at all levels to drive performance and improve outcomes
- Good understanding of financial controls and the ability to apply these consistently in day-to-day activities
- Commercially aware, with the confidence to make decisions and progress issues effectively
- Resilient and delivery-focused, with the ability to manage changing priorities and work to tight deadlines
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interrogate SAP and other financial systems

Internal and External Relationships

Internal Stakeholders
SP Corporate Control
SPR Control team members
SPR Business Teams
Iberdrola Renewables Control
Tax
Administration
Internal Audit

External
External Auditors

Minimum Criteria (mandatory):

Qualified accountant
Good communicator
Ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines
Pro-active and solutions oriented
Strong analytical skills and the ability to interrogate SAP and other relevant IT systems