Senior Financial Operations Accountant – Team Manager

Requirements of the role

At the forefront of the energy transition, Ofgem is working to protect consumers and ensure a fair, affordable and sustainable energy system. We’re now looking for a Senior Finance Operations Accountant – Team Manager to ensure our financial operations are transparent, compliant, and equipped to support change across the energy industry.

Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. We’re at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers, especially vulnerable people.

We’re offering a permanent opportunity to lead a vital internal function within our organisation. As part of our Corporate Finance senior team, you’ll manage and evolve our finance operations (purchase to pay and order to cash), championing best practice and providing exemplary leadership. This is a high-impact role with the scope to influence decision-making, manage change, and enhance service delivery across our finance landscape.

You’ll act in a key capacity, driving day-to-day operations and projects, contributing to instilling robust financial controls, and serving as a trusted partner across the organisation. Your work will play a direct role in ensuring we can achieve our goals.

We’re looking for a fully CCAB qualified finance professional with significant post-qualified experience in a senior finance role. You’ll bring deep knowledge of technical finance policies and processes, strong leadership skills, and the ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences alike. Experience with payment scrutiny, dispute resolution, stakeholder management and third-party funds will also be important.

You’ll benefit from working in a dynamic, purpose-driven organisation that champions development and flexibility. We offer a range of value-adding benefits to help you focus on your work and develop your expertise, all while contributing to a collaborative, inclusive environment and helping to shape a culture that sets the standard for public sector bodies.

We have a critical purpose to ensure financial integrity, accountability and operational excellence across Ofgem’s finance function. If you’re ready to use your skills to influence real change in a vital public organisation, this is your chance to step up.
Job description
Key Responsibilities

Transactional Finance and reporting – manage the team

Manage, lead, and direct finance operations team (including direct line management of approx. 2 team leaders) to ensure conducted in an efficient and effective manner
Oversee complete, accurate and timely processing and receipt of payments across multiple systems and bank accounts including:
Schemes payments (third party money on behalf of other government departments) in line with Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Invoices for accounts payable – supporting internal clients and/or external suppliers as required through to final payment or credit note
Raising sales orders for accounts receivable, including biannual licence fee calculation and invoice request as well as annual credit note process
Purchase order oversight and support to business through the purchase to pay life cycle including working with requisitioners and procurement in relation to data quality, receipting, amendments, workflows and archiving
Actively scrutinise payments and direct the team on disputes and aged balances
Set out a clear and compliant process to be followed to give assurance on accuracy and integrity of financial data and records (e.g. bank details, supplier accounts, financial ledgers), overseeing due diligence and spot checks as required
Direct process over data security, retention, maintenance and cleanse
Manage internal and external finance ops reporting, including responses to freedom of information requests and publication of transparency data
Oversee monthly journal and reconciliation process across payment and income categories, ensuring completed to the required standards (supplier statements, bank, trade creditor and debtor) and undertaken on an accurate and timely basis

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