Jeffrey Higgins Email & Phone Number

Sudbury, MA, US

Waltham, MA

• As the Finance Business Partner for Legal and Regulation & Pricing groups, and a member of the Finance Decision Support group at National Grid, I use my financial knowledge to provide guidance to my business partners.
• Monthly actuals to budget reporting to identify key month to date, year to date, and year over year variances, and provide financial analysis to help my business partners to drive value within their teams
• Create quarterly forecasts to project the updated positions of the Legal and Regulation & Pricing groups
• Prepare annual budgets for the upcoming fiscal year by working with my business partners to incorporate upcoming work streams, providing and key measure to track results for the following fiscal year
• Use my financial knowledge and insight into the business to help create the new SAP accounting structure for the Legal and Regulation & Pricing groups, ensuring accurate costs allocations among the multiple operating.
• Serve as a key point of contact between the business and the Finance group

Waltham, MA

As the Finance Business Partner for the Customer group, my responsibilities include providing monthly variance reporting, quarterly forecast updates, yearly budgets, and contribute to the 5 year business plan. In addition I work on special initiatives to ensure proper cost allocations within the business, track special savings initiatives, provide support.

Waltham, MA

• Member of the Toastmasters chapter at the National Grid Waltham location since its creation in November, 2010
• Valued member of the Energy Talks executive board, with a diverse range of responsibilities and skills required, and served as it’s chair during my time as Presidento Immediate past club President from January 2016 –.
• Achieved Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB) and Competent Communicator (CC) Awardso Received the District 31 Triple Crown Award for completion of 3 award within one year
• Served as a formal mentor, and informal mentor to several members of the club

I helped the accounts payable team with keeping track of invoices, researching clients tax exemption status, and organized a decades worth of customer information

I worked with the Director of ITS on organizing events, helping out the site coordinators, coordinated for sites that didn't have a coordinator, and helped out with various other tasks for ITS

I worked with 10 kids ages 5-12 at a day camp in Stow where I played games with them, went swimming with them, and other fun activities at our day camp