Group Finance Accountant

Renewable Energy Systems; Kings Langley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Group Finance Accountant to join their dynamic finance team. This role offers the opportunity to engage in impactful financial reporting, consolidation, and business partnering while contributing to a significant systems transformation. You'll work closely with senior management and auditors, ensuring high-quality financial information supports critical management decisions. The organization promotes a diverse and inclusive culture, providing a supportive environment for personal and professional growth. If you're passionate about finance and eager to make a difference in the renewable energy sector, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Pension Scheme

Flexible Working

Private Healthcare

Discounted Green Travel

24 Days Holiday

Enhanced Family Leave

Volunteering Days

Qualifications

• Strong financial reporting and consolidation knowledge required.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple requests.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly management reporting and prepare financial statements.
• Aid in the preparation of group consolidated financial statements.

Skills

Financial Reporting

Consolidation Accounting

P&L Accounting

Balance Sheet Accounting

IFRS Knowledge

Communication Skills

Microsoft Excel

Attention to Detail

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA)

Job description

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 rewards and benefits including pension schemes, flexible working, and top-down emphasis on better work-life balance. We also offer private healthcare, discounted green travel, 24 days holiday (with an additional discretionary day given by the company) with options to buy/sell days, enhanced family leave and four volunteering days per year so you can make an impact somewhere else.

The Position

Group Finance have a variety of responsibilities including consolidation of the Group's results, business partnering for the Group's central overhead departments, providing direction to regional teams, working on ad hoc strategic projects, reviewing and assessing controls and associated processes globally over core financial processes.

As part of the Group Finance team, the Group Finance Accountant will need to work with the Group Financial Reporting Accountant and Group Management Accountant as well as other Heads of Finance and Departments and other stakeholders across the business supporting the team to report updates to the Finance Leadership Team and other department heads, helping to prepare the consolidation of the year-end group accounts, management reports, and providing ad hoc reporting as required.

Key Accountabilities

Business Partnering

Support on monthly management reporting for different Group business units for the preparation of the Group Monthly Reporting "pack" and Central overhead cost centres (including Group project cost centres) for the Group Management Accountant to review. This will include preparation of accruals and prepayments, key reports, investigating and resolving anomalies, explaining key variances between budget and actuals, reforecasting and providing insight to senior non-finance budget owners.

Group Reporting

In addition to the monthly reporting, the role will also aid the preparation of the Group's consolidated financial statements for the year-end annual accounts and quarterly bank reporting. The role will also support the Group's annual business planning and budget cycles, preparing analyses to support these cycles and help to explain key changes and drivers behind variances.

Finance Transformation

RES is going through a significant period of systems change and this role will need to be comfortable in onboarding and embracing new technology and working with finance partners to engage with the transformation program and its deliverables including the implementation of a new ERP system.

Statutory Reporting

As part of the year-end process, you will be involved in preparing key reconciliations for the Group's overhead departments, assist in the preparation of the group consolidation and statutory group audited accounts as well as handling auditor queries as they arise.

Ad Hoc Projects

The Group CFO, Head of Group Finance and Senior Manager (Group Reporting and Consolidation) will have other improvement projects ongoing that support our strategic objectives which we will encourage you to participate in.

Knowledge

• Good financial reporting knowledge
• Good consolidation, P&L and Balance Sheet accounting knowledge to help prepare monthly and annual financial reporting supporting senior finance leaders and the annual budgeting and reporting processes.
• Technical accounting knowledge (IFRS) to support the Group Management Accountant and Group Financial Reporting Accountant and other members of the UK finance community.
• Good knowledge of financial control (and what "good" financial control looks like) and the ability to develop.

Skills

• Strong communication skills with the confidence to liaise directly with senior management and external auditors;
• Tenacity and attention to detail, to be able to deliver high quality financial information that will ultimately support management decisions at Board level;
• The ability to work autonomously at times, developing a network, to meet routine internal reporting deadlines;
• Managing multiple requests
• Meeting deadlines and managing stakeholder expectations
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills;

Experience

• Reporting under IFRS
• Experience of management reporting (analysing and or preparing department or cost centre reporting (budget vs actuals and forecast).
• Experience with preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience working with and communicating with senior non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience in working with auditors and managing audit queries.
• Reviewing controls for process documentation and improvement (not essential)

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA)

At RES we celebrate difference 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.