About Our Client

Hays Senior Finance are partnering with a British green energy business based in Stroud with an exceptional reputation, currently going through a period of transformation and investing heavily in innovative solutions during a time where the industry is challenging.
Job Description

Core Responsibilities

  • Ownership and control over the integrity of the consolidated financial statements of the group, preparing the monthly consolidation in the timescale required for inclusion in the Board pack
  • Develop best practice reconciliations between general ledger and external source information for all tax and consolidation balances
  • Ensure compliance with all tax reporting and payment deadlines, including acting as primary contact with our tax services providers and HMRC. This includes preparing our VAT and CCL (Climate Change Levy) returns to HMRC
  • Ensure draft statutory accounts for all companies across the business are complete and accurate prior to the annual external audit. Liaise with auditors and provide feedback to the Management Accounting team as required
  • Provide accounting advice as required to ensure items are treated in line with our financial reporting standards
  • Maintain our tax risk register and ensure actions required to mitigate risks are completed
  • Own the intercompany reconciliation and ensure fixes are enacted as required
  • Understand the group of companies reserve balances and ensure they are optimised to meet investor requirements
  • General Responsibilities

  • Ensure all issued reporting is robust, compliant, and consistent and that it supports both current activities and future growth requirements
  • Work with senior members of the Finance team in the development of the Management and Financial Accounting processes to drive best practice and embed professionalism
  • Help drive the transformation of our use of the finance system(s) for improving our reporting and identify opportunities to future proof our processes and controls
  • Proactively identify areas of improvement and work with others to implement and see these through to completion
  • Provide development opportunities to members of the team where there is scope for others to be involved in consolidation and tax work
  • The Successful Applicant
    Essential Skills & Expertise

  • Fully qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA etc) with significant post qualified experience
  • Interest and understanding of how financial systems interact with each other
  • Excellent IT skills including MS Office suite, in particular Excel modelling
  • Business process improvement mindset – to drive improvements in processes
  • Desirable (but not essential) Skills & Expertise

  • Understanding of FRS102
  • Tax accounting
  • Utilities sector experience
  • Advanced data skills: SQL, VBA, Power BI, Power Query
  • Key Behaviours/Competencies

    Understanding the business

  • You will have a strong understanding of the business to make effective 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 large quantities of data, to make good and timely decisions
  • You will have exceptional financial analytical skills. Being able to interpret financial data to calculate the appropriate accounting or tax decision.
  • Building collaborative relationship

  • You will hold strong relationships with other members of the business including finance team leaders, finance business partners, key contacts in the business and other members of the finance team.
  • You will demonstrate confident communication skills. You will influence the wider business to provide information or to introduce process change.
  • Performance & Results oriented

  • You will have a ‘can do’ attitude. Demonstrating persistence to work through complex problems independently.
  • 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.
  • What’s on Offer

  • Healthcare Plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
  • Volunteering day with your chosen charity
  • Hybrid working, or potential for role to be remote for the right candidate
  • Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
  • Holiday 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
  • Cycle to Work Scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available