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).
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