We drive JERA's renewable energy business growth in Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. As a global renewables IPP working across the life cycle of renewables, we are looking for key talent to be an active part of this exciting journey as the business grows further.
The role will be based in London and will require occasional travelling and frequent collaboration with the JERA Group Headquarters in Japan, the JERA Nex Headquarters in the UK and other affiliated offices.
As a direct report to the Head of Finance, JERA Nex, the Financial Controller will be responsible for leading global finance operations and shaping scalable financial systems across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in financial control, audit coordination, and ERP implementation within complex, multi–regional organizations.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead a team of 3 responsible for AP/AR, ledger control, and financial reporting
* Oversee monthly financial close and performance reviews across regions
* Manage quarterly group consolidation and reporting
* Own the month–end management reporting cycle, including post–close debriefs
* Ensure compliance with IFRS and local GAAPs
* Coordinate group external audit and local statutory audits and filings
* Manage relationships with regional outsourced service providers for AP/AR and statutory filings
* Ensure timely and accurate delivery of Group and Subsidiary audits
* Develop and standardise finance policies, procedures, and internal controls
* Facilitate annual internal compliance reviews
* Drive continuous improvement in financial processes and systems
* Act as a key finance lead in the ERP implementation project
* Define finance requirements, validate system design, and support testing and rollout
* Identify and implement effective solutions to system–related challenges
About you:
* A recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
* 7+ years' experience in financial control, reporting, and audit coordination
* Strong knowledge of IFRS and multi–jurisdictional compliance
* Hands–on experience with ERP systems, ideally SAP S/4HANA
* Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
* Experience in the renewables or energy sector (desirable)
* Familiarity with Japanese business culture or working with Japanese stakeholders (desirable)
* Experience managing outsourced finance service providers (desirable)
Why us:
* Scale–up and entrepreneurial environment in a company that is part of a larger, well–funded firm, that has long–term ambition to contribute to global decarbonization.
* A job that is part of making our world more sustainable.
* International team that benefits from our different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.
* We are high–performing individuals who also enjoy our private lives. We hope you can identify with that.
* We believe in the benefit of flexible working hours and location and appreciate that we see one another in person regularly.
* We are not afraid to admit that we don't know things but also proactively look to solve problems and work collaboratively.
* We work hard but also want to have fun at the same time, we're on an exciting journey.
Who we are:
Established in 2015, JERA is an equal joint venture of TEPCO Fuel & Power, Incorporated and Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. JERA is a Japanese company with significant and global portfolio of international energy assets. It has industry leading expertise scaling the entire fuel and power supply chain, from upstream fuel investments to fuel procurement, trading and transportation, to power generation development, construction and operation. JERA's mission is to contribute to an internationally competitive supply of power and energy and to invigorate the standard of living, industry and economy around the world.
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Candidates with experience of; Finance, Accounts Officer, Credit Controller, Purchase Ledger Clerk, Purchase Ledger Controller, Accounts Clerk, Accounts Payable Assistant, Purchase Ledger, Assistant Accountant will also be considered for this role.
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