Finance Manager - 14 Months FTC

SMS Plc.; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy solutions company in Glasgow is seeking a qualified accountant to contribute to transforming how businesses and consumers utilize energy. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, a robust understanding of financial accounting, and experience with general ledger systems. Benefits include hybrid working options, personal holiday days, and support for professional development.

Benefits

25 personal holiday days per year

Hybrid working options

Employee Participation Scheme

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Life insurance

Pension matching scheme

Medicash health plan

Support for development courses

Qualifications

• Strong academic background with strong numeracy and analytical skills.
• Experience with month end close process.
• Good attention to detail with experience managing large volumes of data.
• Experience in IFRS preferable.

Skills

ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified accountant

Numerical ability

Analytical skills

Technical accounting knowledge

Financial modelling skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Commercial awareness

Experience with general ledger systems

Education

Qualified accountant

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Job description

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Why choose us?

Choosing to work for SMS means choosing to make a difference. We are changing how businesses and consumers use energy for the better, helping achieve a greener, sustainable, and more affordable energy system for everyone. Through our range of innovative energy solutions, we are delivering the future of smart energy – working closely with private and public sector partners we are playing a critical role in transforming and decarbonising the UK economy by 2050.

What's in it for you?

• 25 personal holiday days per year (with additional 8 public holidays) increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years of service (includes options to buy and sell)
• Hybrid working options.
• Automatic enrolment onto our Employee Participation Scheme.
• Enhanced Maternity leave. Paternity and Adoption leave.
• 24/7 free and confidential employee assistance service.
• Medicash health plan offers a wide variety of benefits from cashback on everyday healthcare treatments like optical, dental and physio treatments. Discounted gym memberships and free 24/7 online GP.
• Life Insurance (4 x annual salary)
• Pension matching scheme (up to 5% of salary)
• Developing our people is important to us - we support and encourage development by offering internal and external accredited courses, secondments and study support.

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have/be:

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified accountant with strong academic background and strong numeracy and analytical skills.
• Experience with month end close process.
• Good numerical ability with an attention to detail and experience in managing large volumes of data.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge - International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) preferable.
• Strong financial modelling skills including advanced excel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Robust commercial awareness.
• The ability to work autonomously and manage a busy and varied workload.
• Experience of general ledger systems; knowledge and experience of Microsoft Dynamics 365 an advantage.

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