Performance Accountant
Job Title Performance Accountant
Location Glasgow
Salary from £44,800, up to 10% bonus and health cover
Flexible Working Pattern
Help us create a better future, quicker
The Performance Accountant supports the delivery of financial and operational performance insight across the SPEN business, with a focus on the SPPS directorates. Working closely with colleagues and stakeholders across high-impact areas, the role contributes to providing critical insight and challenge to ensure performance is accurately understood, effectively communicated and aligned with business objectives. This includes delivering high quality analysis and commentary to support key submissions and inform senior level decision making.
Reporting to the SPPS Performance manager, the role provides essential analytical and reporting support during a transformative period of growth under the RIIO-T3 and RIIO-ED3 price controls and beyond. The Performance Accountant plays an important role in supporting accurate financial insight and enabling effective decision‑making across the business.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this role, you will support the Performance Manager with the full budgeting, forecasting and performance‑reporting cycle across SPPS directorates, ensuring processes are robust, insightful and enable well‑informed decision‑making. You will provide value‑adding analysis to the SPEN Reporting Team, ensuring all key metrics are delivered on time and tailored for senior leadership. You will also play a key role in governance for project lifecycle management, maintaining accurate SAP master data and ensuring financial reporting integrity from project initiation through to closure.
You will work collaboratively with colleagues across Business Performance, Control and other business teams to develop efficient reporting processes, strengthen governance and ensure alignment across directorates. This includes monitoring and challenging financial and non‑financial performance, fostering strong cross‑functional relationships, and supporting both the Performance Manager and wider team as required. You will also contribute to Group and Board reporting, clearly articulating insights for your areas of responsibility.
Additionally, you will help drive continuous improvement by challenging existing processes and shaping new ways of working across emerging SPPS areas. You will promote a positive team environment, ensure compliance with Group policies and maintain a strong internal control framework. Through documentation, review and ongoing optimisation of procedures, you will help enhance efficiency, accuracy and strategic alignment across the business.
What You’ll Bring
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
Benefits
At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:
ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.
ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.
Mobility
Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.
IMPORTANT
Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below
April-10-2026
Location Glasgow
Salary from £44,800, up to 10% bonus and health cover
Flexible Working Pattern
Help us create a better future, quicker
The Performance Accountant supports the delivery of financial and operational performance insight across the SPEN business, with a focus on the SPPS directorates. Working closely with colleagues and stakeholders across high-impact areas, the role contributes to providing critical insight and challenge to ensure performance is accurately understood, effectively communicated and aligned with business objectives. This includes delivering high quality analysis and commentary to support key submissions and inform senior level decision making.
Reporting to the SPPS Performance manager, the role provides essential analytical and reporting support during a transformative period of growth under the RIIO-T3 and RIIO-ED3 price controls and beyond. The Performance Accountant plays an important role in supporting accurate financial insight and enabling effective decision‑making across the business.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this role, you will support the Performance Manager with the full budgeting, forecasting and performance‑reporting cycle across SPPS directorates, ensuring processes are robust, insightful and enable well‑informed decision‑making. You will provide value‑adding analysis to the SPEN Reporting Team, ensuring all key metrics are delivered on time and tailored for senior leadership. You will also play a key role in governance for project lifecycle management, maintaining accurate SAP master data and ensuring financial reporting integrity from project initiation through to closure.
You will work collaboratively with colleagues across Business Performance, Control and other business teams to develop efficient reporting processes, strengthen governance and ensure alignment across directorates. This includes monitoring and challenging financial and non‑financial performance, fostering strong cross‑functional relationships, and supporting both the Performance Manager and wider team as required. You will also contribute to Group and Board reporting, clearly articulating insights for your areas of responsibility.
Additionally, you will help drive continuous improvement by challenging existing processes and shaping new ways of working across emerging SPPS areas. You will promote a positive team environment, ensure compliance with Group policies and maintain a strong internal control framework. Through documentation, review and ongoing optimisation of procedures, you will help enhance efficiency, accuracy and strategic alignment across the business.
What You’ll Bring
- Fully qualified accountant
- Strong analytical and accounting skills with a high degree of precision and accuracy
- Previous experience of working with complex financial processes and preparing accurate reporting
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to maintain effective working relationships at all levels of Control
- Understanding and experience of relevant IT applications / systems SAP, Excel & Access
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
Benefits
At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:
- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Schemes
- Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
- Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
- Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
- Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
- Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
- Life Assurance (4x salary)
- Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
- Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.
ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.
Mobility
Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.
IMPORTANT
Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below
April-10-2026