Financial Accountant (12 month FTC)

Job Description

Please note this role requires office presence and the successful candidate will need to be within commutable distance to Stroud, Gloucestershire (GL5)

This role for an experienced qualified accountant sits at the heart of Ecotricity Group's Financial Control function and focuses on delivering high‑quality, compliant and insightful financial reporting across the business. As a qualified accountant with post-qualified experience, you will lead key areas of statutory reporting and audit, ensuring the production of accurate and timely financial statements and coordinating effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

You will provide technical accounting expertise to support the correct interpretation and application of FRS102, strengthening the integrity of financial reporting across the Group. In addition, you will have responsibilities for managing identified tax risks, responding to queries from the wider business and working closely with our tax service providers and HMRC. The role also plays a key part in finance transformation, contributing to process redesign, efficiency and automation, improved reporting capabilities and enhanced financial controls.

As part of building resilience and ensuring business continuity, the Financial Control team will be expected to change their portfolio from time to time and to share some responsibilities across the team. The team supports the full breadth of the Group's activities, including energy supply, energy generation and central operational costs, offering a varied and impactful remit within the wider finance function.

Core Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of the accuracy, completeness and integrity of the Group's consolidated financial statements.
• Provide high‑quality technical accounting advice, supporting the business in interpreting and applying FRS102 and ensuring the integrity of financial reporting.
• Lead the statutory audit and accounts preparation process, coordinating internal stakeholders and external auditors to deliver accurate, timely and compliant statutory financial statements.
• Designing and completing work to address identified tax risks and serving as the first point of response for tax queries from the wider business, triaging or escalating where necessary. You will liaise with our tax service providers and HMRC and maintain the tax risk register.
• Contribute to finance transformation by driving process redesign, efficiency and automation to enhance reporting capabilities, identifying opportunities to future‑proof processes and controls and providing operational support and subject‑matter expertise to the Finance Systems team.
• Act as the stand‑in for the Principal Financial Accountant when required, supporting decision‑making, engaging with senior stakeholders and maintaining oversight of critical workflows across Financial Control.

General Responsibilities

• Review, design and document business processes to address control weaknesses and enhance compliance across key financial operations
• Respond to ad hoc requests on a timely basis and provide support to other teams across Finance when needed.
• Provide drafting support to produce the Strategic Report, ensuring clarity, consistency and alignment with statutory reporting requirements and Group objectives.
• Design and plan work to prepare for upcoming changes to accounting standards, ensuring the business is ready to implement new requirements in a timely and compliant manner.

About You

Essential Skills & Expertise

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA etc) with post-qualified experience
• Sound understanding of FRS 102
• IT skills including MS Office suite, in particular Excel

Desirable (but not essential) Skills & Expertise

• Advanced data skills: Power Query, use of AI etc.
• Tax risk and compliance
• Energy sector
• Workday Financials

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 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 utilise our people in the best possible way at all times and helps our colleagues to make the best contribution in a changing environment. Ecotricity is Britain's overall greenest energy company- it's more than just green energy - the breadth and depth of our work on green issues is unmatched.

When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind. Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy. We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we have built windmills and sun parks in Britain.

We call this turning 'bills into mills'. We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.