Process & Compliance Manager

Location: Prenton (with hybrid working)
Salary: £52,400 - £65,560 + annual bonus (up to 15%) + single cover healthcare
Contract: Permanent, Full‑time (37 hours per week)
Closing Date: 20th March 2026

Create a better future, quicker!

At SP Energy Networks, we're building the energy networks of the future - harnessing innovation, digitalisation and engineering excellence to meet the UK's growing demand for clean electricity. Our people are at the heart of this transformation, and we're now looking for a highly skilled Process & Compliance Manager to join our team.

As Process & Compliance Manager, you will lead a specialist team responsible for ensuring compliance with financial processes, governance frameworks and regulatory requirements. This role is highly commercial and analytical, requiring a deep understanding of complex cost structures and robust financial insight.

You'll play a key part in shaping how we manage, report, and challenge financial performance—ensuring we meet both regulatory obligations and internal commercial targets.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a strong commercial accounting background, who can interpret data, challenge assumptions, and influence decision making at a senior level.

What you'll be doing

* Lead the development, management and approval of budgets and forecasts across approx. £300m of operating and capital costs.

* Produce high quality financial analysis and commentary, providing insight to the Management Team to support informed decision making.

* Monitor performance against budgets, identifying opportunities to drive efficiency and enhance commercial outcomes.

* Oversee all Regulatory Reporting submissions to Ofgem, ensuring accuracy, compliance and robust cost/volume justification.

* Assess financial risks, sensitivities and future year impacts, ensuring clear visibility of performance against business targets.

* Drive improvements in cost management, strengthening controls and optimising processes wherever possible.

* Ensure adherence to governance frameworks, including cost allocations, process integrity and audit readiness.

* Lead, coach and develop a high performing team of analysts, ensuring capability, motivation and delivery.

* Manage recruitment, performance, absence and other people processes effectively.

What You'll Bring

We're looking for someone with strong leadership skills, expert knowledge of financial and regulatory practices, and a proven ability to influence and drive change. You'll be confident making high-level decisions, managing complex reporting requirements, and motivating teams to deliver results.

Essential

* Fully qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA accountant with a strong commercial finance background.

* Demonstrable experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting and commercial insight.

* Strong numerical and analytical capability with outstanding attention to detail.

* Ability to interpret large volumes of complex, interconnected data and translate it into meaningful recommendations.

* Confident decision maker, able to prioritise and deliver under pressure and tight deadlines.

* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to influence at multiple levels.

* Expert user of financial and reporting systems.

* Proven ability to challenge, innovate and develop creative solutions.

Desirable

* Knowledge of the Ofgem regulatory environment or utilities sector (but not essential).

* Experience managing teams in a fast paced, commercially focused environment.

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy several other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At Scottish Power, 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 (inclusive of bank holidays)
⦁ 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 'nudge' financial wellbeing support
⦁ Plus, shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously.

We're investing over £5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. 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