Management Accountant

This is an exciting opportunity to take part in the transformation of Green Britain Group's / Ecotricity' s finance function. The group's finance function has recently gone through a separation process, creating a separate FGR & New Ventures finance team. We are seeking a Management Accountant to be responsible for several of the retained entities and to continue our finance transformation improvements. You will be critical in ensuring that we achieve a fast close, improved management reporting, cash management and business partnering. This is a diverse role that will give you significant experience of implementing and managing controls as well as commercial experience.

This role is hybrid and requires 3 days in our head office based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Core Responsibilities

• All finance matters regarding your assigned entities;
• Overseeing the preparation of management accounts for reporting to stakeholders. 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 EGL 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
• Help drive the transformation of our use of the finance system(s) for improving our reporting and identify opportunities to future proof our processes and controls
• Assist with separation & system implementation projects
• 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 management accounting experience in month-end close, reporting, and complex reconciliations
• Interest and understanding of how financial systems interact with each other
• Excellent IT skills including MS Office suite
• Business process improvement mindset - to drive improvements in processes

Desirable (but Not Essential) Skills & Expertise

• Cash flow forecasting and reporting
• Advanced data skills: SQL, VBA, Power BI, Power Query, excel modelling

Key Attributes/Competencies

• Understanding the business
• You 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 communicate it.

Building collaborative relationships

• You 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.
• 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, gyms, 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 sustainability objectives and targets.

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 its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to 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, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

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