About This Role
Leading the integrity of the Group's accounting records, month-end close, Group consolidation, statutory and tax compliance, and the finance systems and data quality that underpin them is the core of this senior leadership role. It suits a hands-on professional with strong technical accounting judgment and attention to detail, comfortable with complex accounting matters and working with various finance teams and auditors.
Responsibilities
- Own the month-end close calendar, period-lock discipline, and close-time targets
- Perform detailed reviews of balance sheet reconciliations and investigate or challenge unusual and aged items
- Review general ledger accounts and accounting entries to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with Group accounting policies and IFRS
- Perform regular reconciliations between accounting records and cash movements, investigating and resolving any discrepancies
- Own cash reporting and payment controls, and support treasury reporting
- Own the financial control framework appropriate for a growing, PE-backed Group, including journal governance, segregation of duties, and a Group-wide record-to-report controls policy
- Ensure accurate actuals and provide reliable accounting data to the CFO, the FP&A Lead, and other finance stakeholders
- Own delivery of the Group’s statutory accounting timetable
- Prepare and review statutory accounts, disclosures, and supporting schedules
- Prepare audit deliverables and respond to queries from external auditors
- Own VAT, CIS, and other tax compliance processes, working with external providers and ensuring consistency with the underlying accounting records
- Oversee the outsourced payroll and tax providers
- Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation entries and supporting schedules
- Review reporting packages from subsidiaries and SPVs, ensuring consistent application of Group accounting policies and IFRS
- Lead the IFRS conversion and own IFRS technical accounting, including policies for impairment, leases (IFRS 16), decommissioning provisions, and acquisition accounting, and accounting papers for significant or non-routine transactions
- Perform intercompany reconciliations and prepare elimination entries
- Own Chart of Accounts harmonisation and the move towards automated consolidation, defining requirements with the FP&A Lead and the technology team
- Own the accounting for the Group’s operational assets
Requirements
- Strong technical accounting judgment
- Attention to detail
About the Company
Our client integrates site development, construction, energy management, and financing to stabilise the UK electrical grid and support intermittent renewable generation. Backed by major infrastructure investors, the company is scaling rapidly.
