Financial Performance Analyst

Financial Performance Analyst

Glasgow

Salary starting from £43,250 to £50,450

Permanent/Hybrid

Closing Date: 19/03/26

Help us create a better future, quicker!

The Scottish Power Customer Business provides energy to millions of households and businesses across the UK, offering fair pricing and a choice of tariffs to suit a wide range of customer needs. In addition, the business delivers products designed to help customers control and protect the energy in their homes, with flexible solutions that support effective energy management today, tomorrow and in the future.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Senior Business Development and Performance Manager, the Financial Performance Analyst is responsible for delivering all financial calculations for Budgets, Forecasts, and the Business Plan across the complex Smart Solutions portfolio. The role covers all market segments and provides the Customer Business Management team (UK & Global) with accurate, insightful analysis to support operational, commercial, and strategic decision‑making.

• Produce Smart Solutions Budget forecasts and the 10-Year Business Plan in line with the wider Iberdrola Global Liberalised Business strategy and agreed timelines.

• Prepare summarised P&L reporting across the full Smart Solutions portfolio, broken down by product segment, with clear, informative commentary delivered within set deadlines.

• Develop a strong understanding of margins, costs and profitability across Customer Business product areas (Home Energy Services, Home Energy Management and Low-Carbon Technology), including all margin components such as customer numbers, demand, and energy/non-energy costs, with the confidence to challenge assumptions.

• Raising purchase orders, invoices and processing payments to 3rd parties for the Smart Solutions team Responsible for month end financial activity, reporting of actuals and coordinating with Control

• Build knowledge of retail operating costs and key cost drivers, contributing challenge and insight to support accurate financial modelling.

• Support the creation and ongoing management of Domestic product target margins. Design, implement, communicate and maintain new product-level Gross Margin target metrics used to assess budget/forecast profitability and evaluate new product proposals.

• Act as coordinator for product revenue budget and forecast submissions, working closely with Senior Revenue Growth Managers and the Senior Product and Partner Manager.

• Populate business templates required to calculate Gross Margin data for Budgets/Forecasts and provide support on system use, report extraction and data uploads.

• Produce weekly/monthly performance reports and deliver meaningful analysis of actual results versus Budgets and Forecasts.

• Provide ad-hoc profitability analysis in response to Senior Management requests.

What you’ll bring

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, ideally in a numerate or business-related discipline.

• Highly driven and focused, with strong commercial, financial and due-diligence skills.

• A proven track record of precision, accuracy and exceptional attention to detail.

• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines in a dynamic environment.

• Experience in creating robust financial analysis and presenting insights in a clear, concise format to Senior Management and Director-level stakeholders.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across all levels of the organisation.

• Ability to influence and collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders.

• Self-motivated, with strong organisational and time-management skills.

• Advanced practical knowledge of IT desktop tools, including expert spreadsheet modelling capability.

• A strong orientation toward teamwork and collaborative working.

As a minimum, you will demonstrate:

• Commercial delivery experience.

• A proven track record of accuracy, precision and attention to detail.

• Skilled communication with strong influencing ability.

• Capability to manage multiple deliverables while staying focused on key priorities.

• High numeracy and strong analytical thinking.

• Advanced practical IT skills, including advanced spreadsheet modelling.

• Experience of using SAP Financials

What’s in it for you

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%. 

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 Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme

• Payroll giving and charity matched funding

• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes

• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change

• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving

• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

• Options to purchase 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

Why ScottishPower 

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.

We are 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 [email protected].

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.

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