Senior Management Accountant

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career within Ecotricity Group's dynamic finance function. We are looking for a qualified Senior Management Accountant with at least two years post qualified experience, who can take ownership of key financial processes and provide high‑quality insight to support decision‑making across the business.

You will lead the delivery of accurate and timely financial reporting for the energy supply business. The role involves ensuring the integrity of the balance sheet, preparing analysis for the profit and loss account, leading cost centre review meetings and assisting with statutory accounts preparation and external audit activities. Additionally, you will also be expected to drive process improvements, develop best practices in financial controls and help to strengthen the quality and efficiency of the month‑end cycle.

As part of building resilience and ensuring business continuity, the Management Accounts team members may change their portfolio from time to time and to share some responsibilities across the team. The team account for energy supply and generation as well as costs of the entire group.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop and implement best-practice reconciliations between the general ledger, sub-ledgers and external data sources to maintain financial accuracy
• Take ownership of the balance sheet, ensuring completeness, accuracy and compliance with accounting standards
• Prepare and analyse gross margin and operating cost components of the profit and loss account
• Take ownership of complex accounting areas including revenue recognition, accruals and provisioning, applying sound judgement supported by clear rationale
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders by leading cost centre review meetings to promote accountability and financial performance, while delivering clear, insightful analysis to provide senior leaders with strategic financial insight
• Support the development of members of the team who are in training. This role also provides the opportunity to be a line manager
• Act as the stand‑in for the Principal Management Accountant when required, supporting decision‑making, engaging with senior stakeholders and maintaining oversight of critical workflows across Financial Control.

General Responsibilities

• Contribute to finance systems transformation by driving automation initiatives to improve reporting capabilities and identify opportunities to future-proof processes and controls
• Review, design and document business processes to address control weaknesses and enhance compliance across key financial operations
• Deliver accurate and compliant single entity and consolidated statutory financial statements within agreed deadlines, exercising judgement where required, to ensure full adherence to accounting standards and regulatory requirements
• Facilitate a smooth and efficient external audit process by providing accurate documentation, timely responses and implementing audit recommendations
• Provide tax support to ensure all compliance deadlines are met and information requests are fulfilled promptly and accurately
• Respond to ad hoc requests on a timely basis and provide support to other teams across Finance and the business when needed.

About You

Essential Skills & Expertise

• Two years post qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA etc)
• IT skills including MS Office suite, in particular Excel

Desirable (but not essential) Skills & Expertise

• Experience of working in the energy sector
• Advanced data skills: Power Query, Power BI and use of AI
• Use of Workday

What's in it for you...

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Volunteering Day
• Hybrid Working
• Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.