About The Role
This role is for an experienced qualified accountant who sits at the heart of Ecotricity Group's Financial Control function and focuses on delivering high-quality, compliant and insightful financial reporting across the business.
As a qualified accountant with post-qualified experience, you will lead key areas of statutory reporting and audit, ensuring the production of accurate and timely financial statements and coordinating effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
You will provide technical accounting expertise to support the correct interpretation and application of FRS102, strengthening the integrity of financial reporting across the Group.
You will also have responsibilities for managing identified tax risks, responding to queries from the wider business and working closely with our tax service providers and HMRC.
The role also plays a key part in finance transformation, contributing to process redesign, efficiency and automation, improved reporting capabilities and enhanced financial controls.
As part of building resilience and ensuring business continuity, the Financial Control team will be expected to change their portfolio from time to time and share some responsibilities across the team.
The team supports the full breadth of the Group's activities, including energy supply, energy generation and central operational costs, offering a varied and impactful remit within the wider finance function.
As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.
Core Responsibilities
* Take full ownership of the accuracy, completeness and integrity of the Group's consolidated financial statements.
* Provide high‑quality technical accounting advice, supporting the business in interpreting and applying FRS102 and ensuring the integrity of financial reporting.
* Lead the statutory audit and accounts preparation process, coordinating internal stakeholders and external auditors to deliver accurate, timely and compliant statutory financial statements.
* Design and complete work to address identified tax risks and serve as the first point of response for tax queries from the wider business, triaging or escalating where necessary; liaise with our tax service providers and HMRC and maintain the tax risk register.
* Contribute to finance transformation by driving process redesign, efficiency and automation to enhance reporting capabilities, identifying opportunities to future‑proof processes and controls and providing operational support and subject‑matter expertise to the Finance Systems team.
* Act as the stand‑in for the Principal Financial Accountant when required, supporting decision‑making, engaging with senior stakeholders and maintaining oversight of critical workflows across Financial Control.
General Responsibilities
* Review, design and document business processes to address control weaknesses and enhance compliance across key financial operations.
* Respond to ad‑hoc requests on a timely basis and provide support to other teams across Finance when needed.
* Provide drafting support to produce the Strategic Report, ensuring clarity, consistency and alignment with statutory reporting requirements and Group objectives.
* Design and plan work to prepare for upcoming changes to accounting standards, ensuring the business is ready to implement new requirements in a timely and compliant manner.
About You
Essential Skills & Expertise
* Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA etc.) with post‑qualified experience.
* Sound understanding of FRS 102.
* IT skills including MS Office suite, in particular Excel.
Desirable (but not essential) Skills & Expertise
* Advanced data skills: Power Query, use of AI, etc.
* Tax risk and compliance.
* Energy sector experience.
* Workday Financials.
Benefits
* Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution.
* Volunteering day.
* Hybrid working.
* Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events).
* Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) and ability to buy/sell days.
* Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available.
Flexibility Statement
The fast‑moving nature of the 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 utilise our people in the best possible way at all times and helps our colleagues to make the best contribution in a changing environment.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.
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