Head of UK Procure to Pay and Order to Cash Delivery

Hughley exciting opportunity for someone with extensive Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (O2C) experience to oversee our large UK Operational Finance team at National Grid and play a key role as part of the new Global P2P leadership team.

As the UK Head ofProcure to Pay and O2C Delivery, you’ll lead all UK P2P and OTC delivery across National Grid and National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED). This includes leadership of a large team of internal colleagues and third-party service providers.  This role provides the opportunity to support the set-up and transition to a new global P2P team along with integration of National Grid and NGED teams in the UK.

You’ll oversee the UK control processes, payment of supplier and sundry invoices as well as wayleave agreements. You’ll ensure that financial processes are efficient and compliant, monitoring and reviewing all financial processes and driving change to deliver improvements, ensuring robust controls, processes and service levels are in place for key operational finance activities.

We’d hope to see you in our Warwick office 2 days per week but you’re welcome to be in the office more often if that would work best for you. We’re happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that you feel could help to make this job work for you!

What You’ll Do:

• As a member of the Global P2P leadership team, contribute to effective implementation of global service tower. 
• Leadership of colleagues operating across National Grid and NGED.
• Risk and Controls: Management and development of strong controls mindset and effective operational controls across EBS service lines 
• Accountability for the control, processes and payment supplier and sundry invoices and wayleave agreements in NGED.
• Directing the delivery of Transactional Procurement services within the Purchase to Pay end to end business process to National Grid’s internal customers and external suppliers. 
• Overseeing the delivery of Accounts Payable services within the Purchase to Pay end to end business process to National Grid’s internal customers and external suppliers. Ensuring that suppliers are paid on time in accordance with contractual T&Cs and completion of legislative Duty to Report to Department of Business, Enterprise, and Industrial Strategy 
• Provide a comprehensive financial credit risk, security, cash collection and debt management service on behalf of the business.
• Oversee the controls and their effective design and operation within the areas of accountability.
• Proactively seek opportunities to enhance operational efficiency through the implementation of best practice, drawing on external sources and internal references in Order to drive increased value for the business. 
• Build, develop, and manage a high performing and technically capable operational finance team, including the delivery from our 3rd party partners.
• Support in the design and delivery of all major change programmes impacting Operational Finance  To lead and develop National Grid financial performance budgets and metrics, while ensuring business compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other key financial controls.

About You:

• Qualified Accountant ( CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or AAT) with extensive operational finance experience ideally within a Shared Services environment. 
• Strong change management capability and project integration skills 
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing and facilitation skills.  
• Significant leadership experience of large operational teams 
• Knowledge of all aspects of P2P and O2C including process and service delivery, technology enablement and user experience/interaction. 
• Procurement knowledge and experience particularly of indirect categories. 
• Experience of continual improvement through the ability to bring creative and innovative ideas to the forefront and deliver measurable improvements in efficiency and/or costs/change management. 
• Leadership of controls (including SOX) environment, required to enable streamlined process delivery. 
• Experience of developing, scoping, and implementing end to end purchasing and financial transactions. 
• Experience of working as part of an integrated team to deliver system enabled changes / transformation. 
• Broad business experience across projects, operations, and technology 

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.
 

Further Information:

This is a hybrid working role from our Warwick office with 2 days in the office. The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 18 Feb ‘24, with interviews due to take place w/c 26  Feb onwards. We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process. 

About Us:

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. 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.

Inclusion and Diversity is not just about race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. It is about our employees who wake up every day to serve our 20 million customers. At National Grid, we aim to create an environment where everyone is welcomed for who they are and where our differences are not only accepted but are celebrated. We understand the value that a diverse team can add to our organisation and that is why we model inclusive behaviour starting with senior leadership. National Grid utilises the insights of our employees that come from all different cultures, backgrounds, and beliefs to better serve our customers and communities who are in the fore front of everything we do.

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