Systems/Management Accountant

Location: Hybrid

Salary Details: Depending on Experience

About The Role

Please note this vacancy is within Green Britain Group (excluding Ecotricity)

This is an exciting opportunity to take part in the transformation of Green Britain Group’s / Ecotricity' s finance function. The group is currently going through a separation process and are implementing Business Central as our core financial package.

We are seeking a Systems/Management Accountant to be the BC implementation & development project manager & our on-going internal technical expert. They will also be responsible for helping to manage the transactional finance team and to complete the management accounts for some of our smaller entities.

You will be critical in ensuring that we achieve a successful implementation, deliver on-going developments and improvements and ultimately achieve a fast monthly close, improved management reporting and cash management.

This is a diverse role that will give you significant experience of implementing and managing controls as well as commercial experience.

Core Responsibilities

• Be the internal BC implementation & development project manager & our internal technical expert (supported by Acora, our external IT partner)
• Take all of our entities live onto BC
• Once live, lead on BC projects / development work
• Be responsible for day to day ongoing management of BC (in conjunction with Acora)
• Assist with the management & control of the transactional finance /Treasury team & implementation of credit control procedures
• All finance matters regarding your assigned entities, including preparation of management accounts for reporting to stakeholders and managing control processes to ensure accounts are completed including full balance sheet reconciliations;
• Business partnering the Directors and the CEOs/MDs of your assigned entities in the strategic development of those businesses through to maturity;
• Assisting in managing the audit process for your entities to ensure it is completed ahead of statutory deadlines;
• Assisting in the preparation of tax information for your entities
• Supporting the Operations Director and business stakeholders in optimising business performance through measurement against agreed annual and strategic objectives for FGR, GBG and ELG companies and the provision of real-time, accurate, relevant, tailored and clear management information;
• Preparation of annual budgets & rolling forecasts for your entities
• Preparation of monthly P&L variance analysis & commentary for insertion into the management pack
• Ownership and control over the integrity of your balance sheets
• Review, develop and support the documentation of business processes to maintain and strengthen internal controls for specific processes identified with weaknesses
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders
• Take on work and support the teams as required, prioritising tasks around deadlines
• Support the streamlining of cash flow forecasting and reporting, integrating it with the budgeting process and monthly performance reports. Provide commercial insight into the drivers of cash flow and identify risk and opportunities around them

General Responsibilities

• Ensure all issued reporting is robust, compliant, and consistent and that it supports both current activities and future growth requirements
• Proactively identify areas of improvement and work with others to implement and see these through to completion

About You

Essential Skills & Expertise

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA etc) with significant business experience
• Relevant IT skills to complete implementation & ongoing BC support
• Advanced data skills: Power BI, Power Query, excel modelling or similar
• Relevant management accounting experience in month-end close, reporting, and reconciliations
• Team management skills
• Interest and understanding of how financial systems interact with each other
• Business process improvement mindset - to drive improvements in processes

Desirable (but not essential) Skills & Expertise

• Cash flow forecasting and reporting

Key Behaviours/Competencies

• Understanding the businessYou will have a strong understanding of the business to make effective financial decisions.

You will have a questioning mind, not accepting of answers at face value, you will seek to obtain corroborating evidence for financial information.
Making complex decisions – you will manage large quantities of data, to make good and timely decisions.
Financial acumen – You will have exceptional financial analytical skills. Being able to interpret financial data to calculate the appropriate financial position, and clearly and concisely it.

• Building collaborative relationshipsYou will hold strong relationships with other members of the business including finance team leaders, finance business partners, key contacts in the business and other members of the finance team.

You will demonstrate confident communication and leadership skills, guiding and influencing the wider business for information or process change.
Building collaborative relationships

• Performance & results oriented
• You will have a ‘can do’ attitude. Demonstrating persistence to work through complex problems independently.
• You will have flexibility to deal with different finance issues across broad spectrum of tasks.
• You will hold yourself and others accountable to consistently achieve results.

About Us

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's 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 use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2023, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid volunteer time
• Referral programme
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Stroud: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status?

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Stroud

Reference ID: 1666