Assistant Finance Accountant
Application Deadline: 11 November 2025
Department: Finance
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: EPUKI Leeds Office
Reporting To: Senior Finance Manager - GB Gas
Description
Join a dynamic and growing finance team at EPUKI. We’re looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Assistant Finance Accountant to join our Leeds office on a permanent basis. In this key role, you’ll play an integral part in supporting the GB finance team, working across a variety of accounting activities — from compiling, consolidating, and analyzing financial data to ensuring the integrity of our accounting records. You’ll take ownership of core day-to-day finance processes, including journal postings, cost allocations, month-end reconciliations, and variance analysis, while also contributing to group reporting and balance sheet reconciliation at month end.
This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your finance career within an established, forward-thinking energy business that values accuracy, collaboration, and professional development.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager - GB Gas, the key duties and responsibilities will be:
General Accounting
* Preparing GB site specific journals, calculating and maintaining prepayments and accruals, relevant provisions etc.
* Calculating and agreeing intercompany balances and settlement.
* Assisting in the preparation of management accounts, through provision of variance analysis for specifically assigned areas.
* Supporting the GB Finance Managers on any required analysis including prior month cost and revenue impacts, and deep dives to understand the underlying position.
* Preparing assigned balance sheet recs, ensuring accurate and timely completion.
Forecasting / Budgeting
* Supporting the GB Finance Managers in establishing budgets for specific cost areas as well as associated reporting and presentation.
* Supporting on budget and forecast uploads.
Other reporting
* Supporting on the preparation of monthly, quarterly and half yearly group reporting submissions, including responding to queries from EPH.
* Supporting cost centre reporting/business partnering and budgeting of costs for the GB assets.
* Preparing external submissions in an accurate and timely manner, including ONS surveys, climate change levy, landfill tax, for review by the GB Finance Managers.
* Supporting the GB Finance Managers on ad-hoc data requests, collating data, outage planning etc.
* Assisting with the year-end audit, providing analysis, supporting evidence and explanations as required.
* Preparing the GB financial KPIs as required for review by the GB Reporting Manager.
* Assisting transactional team with invoicing queries, allocation of payments and setting up direct debits/standing orders.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Background
* Excellent excel skills and ability to understand complex models and analysis - essential.
* Confident in analysing large volumes of data - essential.
* Basic understanding of UK taxation - essential.
* Enthusiastic about developing skills and progressing within a dynamic organisation - essential.
* Knowledge and application of accounting standards - desirable.
* SAP system knowledge - desirable.
* Experience of working in a similar role - desirable.
* Experience of working in an energy, manufacturing or production focussed environment - desirable.
Behaviours
* Effective time management organised and the ability to prioritise tasks - essential.
* Effective communicator and good at building relationships - essential.Strong team collaborator with a positive, supportive attitude and a willingness to help others - essential.
Qualifications
* Qualified to degree level or equivalent - essential.
* Part qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or a graduate with strong academic record looking to pursue professional qualification.
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