Job Description

Join a dynamic and growing finance team at EPUKI. We're looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Group Assistant Accountant to join our Leeds office on a permanent basis.



As a key member of the Central Finance team, the Group Assistant Accountant plays an important role in making sure that financial information is prepared timely, accurately and with integrity. Beyond core reporting, the role will also involve a broad range of financial activities including cash management and forecasting, assisting with statutory account preparation and preparing information for audit reviews.

They will report to the Group Finance Manager in delivering these tasks, and will also support the Central Finance Business Partner with central cost management, which will involve providing administrative support in SAP and various ad-hoc tasks which will lead to exposure with the Procurement team and other functions across the business.

This will be a dynamic and varied role offering the opportunity to learn and develop within a Finance team in a fast-paced and evolving energy business.
Key Responsibilities


Reporting to the Group Finance Manager, the key duties and responsibilities will be:

General accounting and Month-end reporting

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.

Other reporting

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.

Forecasting / Budgeting

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.

Central cost management

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.




Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Background

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)

Behaviours

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).

Qualifications

Qualified to degree level or equivalent (essential). Strong academic record including GCSE Maths, looking to pursue professional qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA). About EP UK Investments Ltd


EPUK Investments Ltd (EPUKI) is the UK division of Energeticky a pr?myslovy holding (EPH), a leading energy group of over 70 companies that owns and operates assets across Europe. EPH group employs circa 24,000 people internationally, owns EUR30.5bn of assets, generating EUR37.1bn of revenue and an EBITDA of EUR4.3bn.

EPUKI was established in 2015 as the strategic platform for expanding the EPH group into the UK energy market. Since launching, EPUKI has made several acquisitions and developed a number of new opportunities and now owns multiple renewable and flexible power generating assets in the UK and Ireland.

EPUKI has grown rapidly to revenues ~3.5bn and EBITDA ~300m. We pride ourselves on an entrepreneurial culture and flat leadership structure where individuals (wherever they are in the organisation) can make a real impact on our business.

Our aim is to enable the UK and Ireland low carbon transition through provision of flexible and reliable energy supply. To achieve this, we will:

develop, construct and acquire the right assets to support the transformation of the energy system; invest in our people and our assets to best respond to the changing needs of our sector; continuously challenge ourselves to identify opportunities, build our knowledge and develop innovative solutions.



EPUKI is one of the largest independent generators in the UK and Ireland, with an asset base that covers multiple technologies and a range of revenue streams; these include fully merchant baseload and peaking plant and index traded baseload plants, providing a range of system services across the energy and balancing spectrum.

Despite its significant market presence, EPUKI has a flat structure with fast paced decision-making ability enabling better optimisation of market positions. The market continues to evolve and develop as the UK and Irish governments drive towards Net Zero with increasing challenges of renewables penetration, introduction of hydrogen and other new technologies.