Senior Management Accountant - O&M NE

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Description

Do you want to work to make Power for Good?

We're the world's largest independent renewable energy company. We're guided by a simple yet powerful vision: to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.

We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we're tackling some of the world's toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They're our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them.

RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their career they're at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

Our competitive package offers a wide range of benefits and rewards.

The position

Reporting to the Head of Business Finance Northern Europe to provide core deliverables around UK and Group reporting, helping to maintain a strong control environment, and providing insight and support to key stakeholders. This role will be a key Finance Business Partner to the Operations and Maintenance ("O&M") team, key stakeholders being the Department Heads within O&M.

This role will need to work with the Head of Business Finance to plan for the future, identifying policy, process and system changes alongside introducing new and evaluating existing controls which help improve the accuracy of reporting and profitability of the business. This will also include the final stages of integration of the business into SAP and then the move of the business into our new ERP system in 2027.

This role will manage a Management Accountant and Finance assistant with responsibility for the majority of the month end journals and ongoing monthly finance processes which underpin the monthly financial reporting.

This role will work side by side with the Senior Management Accountant for Asset Management to ensure that knowledge is shared and processes aligned to meet the needs of the key stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities

Be the Finance Business Partner to the department heads to provide financial information required for effective decision making in order to achieve the business strategy

Responsible for all monthly reporting requirements including P&L, KPIs and forecast including analysis and understanding of variances to budget

Responsible for the areas of the balance sheets in relation to the O&M Support Services business

Ownership of the budget files and collation of the budget together with the SS teams, loading into finance system and group reporting requirements

Responsible for process improvements and to be a key support to the O&M team to ensure we have the required processes and controls in place to support the team to improve their end to end finance process. Key finance team link within relevant workshops with the O&M team to ensure appropriate financial controls are met

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong accounting knowledge
• IFRS, FRS 102, FRS101 and UK GAAP
• Understanding of both management and statutory accounting
• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to articulate messages clearly and to non-financial professionals
• Strong influencing skills and ability to develop trusted relationships
• Well organised and with good time management skills and ability to deliver on time
• Tenacity and attention to detail in order to deliver high quality financial information
• Strong Microsoft excel skills
• Solid financial analysis skills

• Proactive, 'can do' attitude, with focus on continuous improvement of reporting and analysis
• A team player but with the discipline to work autonomously
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks and deadlinesExcellent communication skills with the confidence to articulate messages clearly and to non-financial professionals
• Strong influencing skills and ability to develop trusted relationships
• Well organised and with good time management skills and ability to deliver on time
• Tenacity and attention to detail in order to deliver high quality financial information

• Strong Microsoft excel skills
• Solid financial analysis skills
• Proactive, 'can do' attitude, with focus on continuous improvement of reporting and analysis
• A team player but with the discipline to work autonomously
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks and deadlines

Experience

• Proven ability to deliver high quality routine statutory and management reporting, forecasting and budgeting in a commercial environment
• ERP system literacy is essential. Demonstrable ERP implementation experience is an advantage
• Delivering finance process improvements
• Business partnering with non-financial internal stakeholders
• Management of balance sheet accounts and controls process
• Year end audit queries
• Preparation of statutory financial statements under IFS, FRS 101 AND FRS 102

Qualifications

Part of fully qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)

At RES, we celebrate differences as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience of our people.

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