Financial Analyst - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

3.0
Nov 30, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The utility industry is pretty much stable. Good career development tools with on boarding and perks such as paying for college of up to 10k a year (based on your grade). Good benefits.

Cons

While majority of the company's people are nice and friendly there are a few that plays political games. The business partner group needs the most fixing as the old school thinking still lingers. The older generation would shut the analyst's idea down because they're always right. Any good intentions would be taken personally and your growth opportunity will be limited. The accounting, corporate finance and finance excellence are solid as they actually work well with everyone. The rating should be higher but finance business partner rating is pretty much a 2 stars in my book.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

At NGED the few pros are lessened by the day as the cons are increasing. The idea of a career has gone and now most are resigned to just having a job.

Cons

Aside from the reality being very different from what the leadership team sell IE they don't care about people or net zero, it's all spin and marketing. Now at NGED we are in a situation where staff you have known for many years simply disappear from duty and no one seems to know why, a couple of weeks later they have left the business with an NDA. It's happening all over the business. There seems to be a drive to remove any leaders who have industry technical knowledge and replace them with people from outside the industry who knows little to nothing about electricity. Despite safe to say being an important value, speaking out against this usually results in an NDA. It's toxic positivity where playing along seems to be more important than the role you fulfil.

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