Financial Analyst

Description

Do you want to work to make Power for Good?

We're the world's largest independent renewable energy company. We're guided by a simple yet powerful vision: to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.

We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we're tackling some of the world's toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They're our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them.

RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their career they're at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

Our competitive package offers a wide range of benefits and rewards.

The position

Reporting to the Head of Finance UK&I – Development and Construction, the role is responsible for supporting the team to deliver accurate monthly reporting for our Development subsidiaries. Our UKI development projects are structured as separate legal entities and require monthly transactional processing and annual reporting.

The role will look after the transactional processing for several of our development SPVs and will support in preparing financial statements and intercompany reconciliations for our development subsidiaries.

There will also be the opportunity to work on projects which focus on simplifying current processes with the implementation of our new ERP system.

Please note that this position is being offered on a 12-month fixed-term contract basis.

Key accountabilities:

Reviewing spend to date on our development projects, and recharging to development SPVs.

• Ownership of the financial ledgers for our development subsidiaries, including reconciling invoices raised and intercompany loan financing.
• Preparation of management accounts for our development subsidiaries to support in due diligence processes when the development subsidiaries are being sold.
• Ownership of the statutory financial statements for the development subsidiaries, including supporting on the audit of these where required
• Support in eliminating intercompany transactions for our monthly UKI Consolidations
• Supportwith ad hoc tasks i.e. 3rd party information requests.

Knowledge/Skills

• Understanding of accounting
• Knowledge of financial systems
• Organized with good time management skills
• Tenacity and attention to detail to deliver high quality financial information
• Work autonomously and be proactive to meet routine internal reporting deadlines
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills

Experience

• Experience with financial systems. IFS system knowledge would be advantageous but not essential

Qualifications

• Junior / Part Qualified Accountant

At RES we celebrate difference as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience of our people.