Summary
Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, this position will play a pivotal role in producing and maintaining accurate and comprehensive reporting and analysis to support our global operations. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of financial information, assisting with budgeting and forecasting activities, and supporting statutory accounts preparation and audit processes.
Key Responsibilities
Management Information:
1. Produce comprehensive financial and commercial information in a timely manner.
2. Generate detailed monthly management accounts reports and provide insightful commentary.
3. Prepare analysis and comparisons to budgets/forecasts.
4. Develop and maintain KPI reporting to evaluate pan-regional performance.
5. Coordinate pan-regional activities and initiatives.
6. Provide necessary information to support third-party reporting requirements.
Budgets & Forecasts:
7. Collaborate with finance team members and internal business partners to ensure accurate project budgets and forecasts are developed and maintained across all portfolio levels.
Statutory Accounts and Audit:
8. Assist in preparing year-end statutory accounts for multiple entities.
9. Liaise with external auditors as needed.
General Day-to-Day Activities:
10. Take a hands-on approach, processing ledger entries as required.
11. Ensure accuracy, quality, and timeliness of financial information.
12. Prepare monthly accounts packages within agreed deadlines.
13. Collaborate with other members of the wider finance team.
14. Assist in ongoing change management initiatives.
Experience Required
15. Relevant experience ideally with renewable energy or project infrastructure in a similar role desirable
16. Experience of Project Finance, Renewable Energy project accounting desirable
17. Experience of an accounting and reporting system desirable
18. Experience of SAP S/4HANA
General Skills/Attributes
19. Highly organised individual with the ability to work on several projects at once
20. Able to work efficiently and effectively under the pressure of tight deadlines
21. An excellent communicator with the ability to tell a story and go beyond the analysis
22. Solid team player with a collaborative working style
23. Flexible approach in a fast-paced business which is constantly changing, keep a clear head under pressure
24. Excellent attention to detail when checking information with an ability to recognise and question anomalies
25. Accurate data input essential
26. Keen problem solver who can focus on appropriate detail when solving problems and propose effective solutions
Why you’ll want to work for us
Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow; a place where your ideas and opinions matter.
Be you
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.
Be responsible
Our culture is driven by our core values. From operating safely to ensuring our solar projects are responsible and promote biodiversity.
Be recognized
Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, pension and other local benefits.
Be inspired
Beyond your day-to-day working life at Lightsource bp, there’s a variety of initiatives that will contribute to your own personal development. Initiatives to get involved with including our charitable causes or supporting our solar honey project.