Hybrid Group Assistant Accountant

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About the role

  • Group Assistant Accountant at EPUKI finance team in Leeds. Focused on reporting, budgeting, and financial management duties in a dynamic energy business environment.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare journals, calculate and maintain prepayments and accruals, relevant provisions and other balance sheet accounts.
  • Calculate and agree intercompany balances and settlement.
  • Liaising with other finance colleagues from the assets to ensure all central transactions are accurate and complete.
  • Assist in preparation of management accounts, including performing initial variance analysis, reviewing and investigating data to understand the movement and identify errors.
  • Support the Group Finance Manager in preparing commentary for inclusion in the management accounts.
  • Prepare assigned balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accurate and timely completion.
  • Support on preparation of monthly, quarterly and half yearly group reporting submissions of the central entities, including responding to queries from EPH.
  • Assisting with the group and statutory audit, providing supporting evidence and explanations as required.
  • Assist with the preparation of the statutory accounts.
  • Prepare external submissions in an accurate and timely manner, including ONS surveys and other government or regulatory reporting.
  • Assist transactional team with invoicing queries and allocation of payments.
  • Support in the collation of central entities business plan costs, revenues and KPIs, and production of the budget pack with commentary.
  • Support on budget and forecast submissions.
  • Support the weekly and monthly cashflow forecast process of the EP UK group, helping to ensure sufficient cash reserves are available for the individual asset’s needs.
  • Assist the Central Finance Business Finance in preparing cost centre actual and forecast information, which is used to manage spend across different support centre functions.
  • Prepare and manage purchase requisitions and receipting of goods & services in SAP for the Finance cost centre.
  • Support other functions with training and understanding of SAP data entry, and provide guidance across the business to ensure data is input correctly.

Requirements

  • Strong excel skills and ability to analyse data (essential)
  • Experience of working in a multi-entity finance environment (desired)
  • Experience of working in an Energy, manufacturing or production focussed environment (desired).
  • Basic understanding of accounting standards (desired).
  • SAP system knowledge (desired)
  • Effective time management, organised and the ability to prioritise tasks (essential).
  • High attention to detail and strong analytical ability (essential)
  • Effective communicator and good at building relationships - (essential).
  • Strong team collaborator with a positive, supportive attitude and a willingness to help others - (essential).
  • Aspirations to progress and develop (essential).
  • Qualified to degree level or equivalent (essential).
  • Strong academic record including GCSE Maths, looking to pursue professional qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).

Job title

Group Assistant Accountant

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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