Job Description
Location: Hybrid
About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Ecotricity Group's finance function, during a period of transformation for the business and its sale. We are seeking a part or newly qualified Management Accountant to work on overheads for our energy supply business, on a fixed term contract basis initially for 6 months.
This is a key role and will involve working with both the Principal Management Accountant and other teams around the business, to run financial processes and prepare monthly financial information. You retain ownership and control over the integrity of the balance sheet. You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining financial policies and management information systems, utilising the guidance of the Principal Management Accountant to learn and implement best practice.
Core Responsibilities
Develop best practice reconciliations between general ledger, subledger and external source information
Ownership and control over the integrity of the balance sheet
Support the transformation of the finance system for improving our reporting and identify opportunities to future proof our process and controls
Review, develop and document business processes to maintain and strengthen internal controls for specific processes identified with weaknesses
Build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders
Preparation of the overheads parts of the profit and loss account and balance sheet for the energy supply business
Provide assistance as part of the annual external audit process.
General Responsibilities
Ensure all issued reporting is robust, compliant, and consistent and that it supports both current activities and future growth requirements
Working with Principal Management Accountant in the development of the Management Accounting processes to drive best practice and embed professionalism
Proactively identify areas of improvement and work with others to implement and see these through to completion
About You
Essential Skills & Expertise
Part or newly qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA etc)
Interest and understanding of how financial systems interact with each other
IT skills including MS Office suite, in particular Excel
Business process improvement mindset - to drive improvements in processes
Desirable (but not essential) Skills & Expertise
Utilities sector experience
Advanced data skills: SQL, VBA, Power BI, Power Query
Key Behaviours/Competencies
You will demonstrate an understanding of the business to make financial decisions.
You will have a questioning mind, not accepting of answers at face value, you will seek to obtain corroborating evidence for financial information.
You will manage high quantities of data, to make good and timely decisions.
You will show good financial analytical skills. Being able to interpret financial data to calculate the appropriate financial position.
Building collaborative relationships
You will develop relationships with other members of the business including more senior Management Accountants, finance business partners, key contacts in the business and other members of the finance team.
You will demonstrate confident communication and developing leadership skills. You will be able to show influence to the wider business for information or process change and influencing the team to develop best practice.
Performance & Results oriented
You will have a 'can do' attitude. Demonstrating persistence to work through complex problems.
You will have flexibility to deal with different finance issues across broad spectrum of tasks
You will hold yourself and others accountable to consistently achieve results.
About Us
What's in it for you...
Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available
As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025
Flexibility statement
The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.
Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.
Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.
We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2022, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.
We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk + RSPB.
_Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all._
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Salary: £30,000.00-£40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Additional leave
Casual dress
Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Employee discount
On-site parking
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
Gloucestershire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Reference ID: 1452