Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives. We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.
M Group Energy Infrastructure Division is seeking a dynamic and commercially astute Head of Finance to lead the financial strategy, planning, and performance management across our Energy Substation and Renewable Connection portfolio.
This senior leadership role will be pivotal in driving financial excellence, supporting operational decision-making, and ensuring robust financial governance.
You will lead a team of finance professionals and work closely with the executive and operational leadership to deliver sustainable growth and margin improvement.
You will operate at the centre of a business unit which has the ambition to grow as it supports the UK transition to clean power.
What you'll be doing?
We want you to develop in the role.
The role is a senior leadership role with genuine scope to shape and improve a complex, operationally critical part of the Energy Infrastructure business.
Direct development and support from the Divisional Finance Director, with a strong focus on building capability, judgement, and confidence in senior finance leadership.
Exposure to Group Finance and senior divisional leadership, providing breadth, visibility, and future career progression within a growing organisation.
- Lead financial strategy, planning, budgeting, and forecasting across the Energy Substation and Renewable Connections portfolio.
- Drive improvements in financial performance, including recovery plans where results are below expectations.
- Provide strategic financial insight to support business growth, investment decisions, bids, and tenders.
- Partner closely with operational and commercial leaders to influence decision‑making and improve margins.
- Lead and develop a high‑performing finance team, ensuring clear objectives, capability building, and succession planning.
- Ensure robust financial reporting, governance, and compliance, including management accounts, audits, and revenue recognition.
- Own divisional financial inputs into 5‑year business plans, business cases, and investment appraisals.
- Embed strong construction finance disciplines, delivering credible forecasts, cost control, and working capital optimisation.
What you’ll bring?
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience.
- Proven experience operating in complex, contract-led environments, including NEC or similar forms of contract.
- Proven track record in a senior finance leadership role within a business-facing environment.
- Strong understanding of contract accounting, commercial finance, and operational performance.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Experience in construction, infrastructure, or energy is strongly preferred, particularly in contract-led environments with complex delivery and risk profiles.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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