CPP Management Accountant

81507 - CPP Management Accountant

This CPP Management Accountant will report to the Finance Lead and will work within the Finance Directorate based in either our London or Crawley office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary dependant on your experience and a bonus of 7.5%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote

Close Date: 14/11/2025

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

Job Purpose, Nature and Scope:

Our Finance Business Partnering team of 35 is responsible for strategic partnering with the business, driving financial decisions that shape our future.

Your role goes beyond reporting the numbers, whilst you will manage all month-end processes, you will add value by delivering clear, detailed analysis of performance, highlighting and explaining deviations from plan and offering solutions.

You will have experience supporting and challenging the financials of a major project finance team. You will have a commercial understanding of how to lead best value in a project infrastructure environment and will also deliver a month-end process. You will require business partnering skills, demystifying financial results and delivering value-adding insights to allow the business to understand performance. Although you will sit in Finance, you will become an important part of the CPP wider management delivery teams.

You will have support of both your immediate & wider team, the bar for success is high, we are looking for a proactive and independent financial professional to maintain the current high level of customer satisfaction whilst automating processes.

You will work in our Crawley or London office, although there will be ad-hoc travel around the DNOs where some of our CPP teams are based for monthly management meetings along with regular business partnering.

Dimensions:

CPP Finance is a team of 4 responsible for Business Partnering with 8 senior management teams across CPP. Reporting on 2025 cost budgets of £300m growing another £100m for ED3. CPP Finance sits within the wider Finance Business Partnering (“FBP”) team of 35. You will have no direct reports and challenge and support on annual budget of c.£400m in 2026

Principal Accountabilities:

You will produce monthly management accounts which reflect CPP performance. Identify and investigate variances to plan, ensuring these are communicated and understood by the business.

You will deliver value-adding insights on performance to the business.

Identify and deliver strategies/business cases to out-perform our targets.

In-person attendance and contribution to regular management meetings with senior figures from the business.

You will prepare the annual budgets, ensuring we have clear, achievable budgets linked to benefits and deliverables.

You will prepare the necessary Audit replies to Calendar & Regulatory year end processes.

Qualifications and Experience:

Sound accounting skills, focus on the calculation and posting of accruals and prepayments.

You will translate complex financial data into value adding insights.

Confidence to business partner across the business; including to senior figures/ SMT/ EMT.

An understanding of accounting regulations – with a focus on Capex projects. Commercial mindset with focus on continuous development and improvement. Advanced Excel skills (PivotTables, SUMIFs, XLOOKUPs) – ability to refine and automate repeat processes.

Experience with SQL, Power Query, Power BI and other AI tools is desirable.

Qualified accountant, or near finalist (CIMA/ ACCA/ ACA).

Experience working in a Regulated industry is desirable but not essential.

Experience working in a Project delivery function is desirable.

Health & Safety Responsibilities:

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.