Great opportunity to work as a Project Financial Controller for a leading Renewable Energy Company that designs and develops long-duration energy storage solutions for utility and distributed power systems.

My client is working on the construction of a milestone project in the North-West, on a new Renewable Energy Storage Power Station.

The Role:

My client is looking for an enthusiastic Financial Controller / Accountant accountant to join the Finance team supporting the project team with the construction of their first full scale plant in the UK.

This role requires resilience, an enquiring mind, and a can-do attitude. You will work alongside the construction team, reporting to the Head of FP&A based in London, ensuring that the project financial information is accurate and timely.

The company needs to rapidly introduce new processes and systems so you will need a logical mind with enthusiasm for new processes and a good understanding of financial systems, ideally with implementation experience.

Responsibilities

Ensuring that financial information for projects is correctly recorded
Maintaining the correct project data structure within SAPbyDesign
Ensuring that the value of work done has been correctly recorded in SAP by procurement and project cost controller
Own fixed asset register in SAP, transferring project costs to assets under construction in line with the Fixed Asset Policy, maintaining clear reconciliations to reported project expenditure and descriptions that allow appropriate tax analysis
Producing expenditure reports for their next project pre FID
Ensuring that appropriate expenditure approval levels are maintained
Preparing Construction Industry Scheme returns
Analysing project expenditure to claim capital allowances
Running depreciation calculations and forecasts
Maintain records for the VAT Capital Goods Scheme
Cash flow forecasts and cost analysis for the projects
Supporting the year end audit

Requirements

To be successful in this role you should have:

The highest degree of integrity
Excellent inter-personal skills that will allow you to liaise with stakeholders across the Group
Good Excel and PowerPoint skills
Construction industry experience (in practice or in industry)
An accountancy qualification - ACA, ACCA or CIMA
3+ Years of Post Qualified Experience
Ability to navigate ERP systems eg. SAP, SAPByDesign, Oracle, ideally with some implementation experience
Leadership potential

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As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment