Head of IT Finance

Base Location: You’ll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations :Glasgow, Perth or London

Salary: Competitive + car /car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent – Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

This is a senior finance leadership role at the heart of how technology investment is shaped, prioritised and delivered across SSE Group.

You’ll partner closely with the Group CIO, Business Unit CIOs, Finance Directors and Finance leadership to bring commercial rigour, strategic challenge and an enterprise mindset to technology investment decisions across the Group.

As a core member of the IT Leadership Team (ITLT), you’ll help shape SSE’s digital and transformation agenda, ensuring investment is focused on the outcomes that matter most to the business. This role is less about reporting and more about driving better decisions, influencing investment choices, creating transparency and ensuring accountability for value delivery across a complex and federated operating model.

This is an opportunity for a finance leader who wants to operate at the intersection of technology, strategy, transformation and finance, helping shape how SSE invests in and delivers technology.

You will

– Act as the Finance partner to the Group CIO and a key member of the IT Leadership Team, working closely with Business Unit CIOs, Finance Directors and senior leaders to support technology strategy and investment decisions.

– Bring a strong commercial lens to technology investment, challenging value, prioritisation, affordability and trade-offs.

– Influence and challenge Business Unit Finance and IT leaders in a federated model to support enterprise outcomes.

– Provide a Group-wide view of the technology investment portfolio, supporting consistent prioritisation and funding decisions.

– Help develop and embed a consistent approach to assessing and tracking value from technology investment across SSE.

– Support clarity of ownership, decision-making and accountability across Group and Business Unit technology spend.

– Shape and challenge technology demand, ensuring investment proposals are clearly linked to business outcomes, strategic priorities and enterprise value.

– Build and lead a high-performing team, setting clear expectations on pace, quality and impact.

You have

– Significant post-qualified experience in finance leadership or business partnering roles.

– A strong track record of partnering with senior stakeholders to influence decision-making and deliver business outcomes.

– Experience operating successfully in complex, matrix or federated organisations.

– Strong commercial and financial analysis skills, with the ability to assess investment opportunities and trade-offs.

– The ability to translate complex technical or operational issues into clear business decisions.

– Experience managing large cost bases and supporting investment decision-making.

– Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.

What will set you apart

– You bring curiosity and commercial insight, seeking to understand the business problem before debating the solution.

– You simplify complexity and help stakeholders make informed decisions.

– You challenge constructively, balancing support with appropriate rigour.

– You build trusted relationships and work effectively across organisational boundaries.

– You focus on outcomes and value, while recognising the practical realities of delivery.

– You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping bring clarity to competing priorities.

About SSE

SSEs purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

Our Finance teams create value for all SSE business areas and play a key role in fulfilling our obligations as a FTSE100 UK-listed company. In a highly regulated and competitive environment, their experts keep us powering ahead by identifying efficiencies, providing advice and optimising our financial strategies.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact 01738 344763 to discuss how we can support you.

We’re dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

Ready to apply?

Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We’ll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we’ll be taking your application further. If you’re offered a role with SSE, you’ll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.