Lead Finance Business Partner / FP&A

About us

National Grid is hiring a Lead Finance Business Partner IT for our Corporate Finance Department in Waltham, MA or Brooklyn, NY or Syracuse, NY

Every day we deliver safe and reliable energy to homes, communities, and businesses. As the energy landscape transforms, National Grids ability to anticipate, adapt, and lead has never been more important. Corporate Finance partners with IT to enable high quality decision support, strategic performance insight, and financial stewardship.

This is a unique opportunity to join the energy industry at a pivotal moment, as electrification, grid modernization, and growing digital infrastructure needs reshape how utilities plan, operate, and create value for customers.

We are hiring a Lead Finance Business Partner to support US IT leadership and drive strategic financial planning, cost transparency, rate recovery, and business performance through rigorous analysis and scenario evaluation.

About the Role

The Lead Finance Business Partner will serve as the strategic finance lead for US IT, providing executive-level insight, driving financial and operational performance, and shaping the long-term planning and forecasting of IT capital projects. This role partners closely with IT leadership, Finance, Business Units, to enable high-quality decision making, evaluate scenarios and trade-offs, and improve rate recovery outcomes through disciplined investment prioritization and performance management.

Key areas of ownership include:
• Leading the design and evolution of IT planning, forecasting, and performance management frameworks, aligned to enterprise requirements.
• Driving financial insight, scenario evaluation, and strategic recommendations to support IT investment decisions and optimize rate recovery.
• Influencing key decisions by providing forward-looking analytics, challenging assumptions, and ensuring financial discipline to improve performance outcomes.
• Acting as a lead liaison between IT, the Business Units, Plan to Perform, and other stakeholders.
• Providing coaching to a team of finance professionals.
• Build capability to drive and track IT benefits through project life cycle to maximize value capture and inform decision making.

What You'll Do
• Partner with IT and Finance leaders to set financial strategy, provide decision support, and ensure strong financial governance across run/grow/transform spend.
• Lead scenario evaluation and modeling (demand, portfolio trade-offs, vendor strategy, capitalization, timing) to quantify impacts, risks, and options.
• Own and continuously improve IT forecasting and long-range planning, including clear narratives on drivers, sensitivities, and mitigation actions.
• Drive cost transparency and higher rate recovery by strengthening allocation/charge-out methodologies, validating assumptions, and evaluating recovery scenarios and outcomes.
• Develop performance reporting (KPIs, dashboards, variance analysis) that links spend to service outcomes, benefits realization, and productivity improvements.
• Identify and influence opportunities to improve financial performance, including efficiency initiatives, demand management, and investment prioritization.
• Develop a team of finance professionals, building analytical capability and a high-performance business partnering culture.
• Collaborate across Finance, IT, and Business Units to ensure alignment, data quality, and consistent reporting and decision frameworks.

What You'll Need
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or related field required, MBA or Master's a plus
• 4+ years in finance, business partnering, consulting, investment banking, FP&A, or related disciplines within complex, matrixed organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex financial and operational data, distill insights into a clear storyline, and translate analysis into actionable decision options for senior leaders.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decisions in a matrixed environment, including challenging assumptions and operating effectively without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex messages simply.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with SAP, PowerBI, or similar tools is a plus.
• Ability to build driver-based financial models and scenario analyses and communicate outputs via clear visuals and management reporting.
• Experience in performance management, planning and forecasting, and scenario modeling (including sensitivities and trade-off analysis) to support investment decisions, cost transparency, and performance improvement.
• Understanding of work orders and internal financial structures, including how cost flows through capitalization, allocations, and charge-out methodologies.
• Working knowledge of FERC accounting and utility regulatory accounting concepts (e.g., capital vs. expense, AFUDC where applicable, and reporting considerations).
• Experience building complex financial models, including allocation methodologies and recovery models (e.g., Allocated Depreciation and A&G).
• Strong problem-solving skills and a continuous improvement mindset; proactively identifies root causes, streamlines processes, and improves controls and reporting.
• Strong attention to detail, strategic mindset, and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

More Information

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Annual Salary

Waltham: $119,000-$140,000

Syracuse: $107,000-$125,000

Brooklyn: $128,000-$150,000

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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 committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of protected class. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. National Grid maintains affirmative action programs for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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