Financial Accountant - Digital Solutions

Renewable Energy Systems; Kings Langley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company seeks a proactive Financial Accountant to support accounting, reporting, and consolidation activities. This role requires a qualified accountant with strong IFRS knowledge and experience in intercompany accounting. The successful candidate will work independently in a fast-paced environment and engage with senior stakeholders. Opportunities for personal and professional growth are also available within this diverse team.

Benefits

Wide range of benefits and rewards

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with strong technical knowledge of IFRS.
• Experience with consolidation and statutory accounts.
• Ability to work independently and solve problems proactively.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly IFRS consolidations for digital business.
• Maintain and reconcile intercompany balances.
• Prepare statutory accounts ensuring compliance with IFRS.
• Oversee capex balances and amortisation postings.
• Support the annual audit and budget.

Skills

Technical accounting expertise

Communication skills

IFRS knowledge

Intercompany accounting

Statutory accounts experience

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Job description

Do you want to work to make Power for Good? We’re the world’s largest independent renewable energy company. We’re guided by a simple yet powerful vision: to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.

We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we’re tackling some of the world’s toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They are our most important asset, so that’s why we continually invest in them.

RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal and professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their career they’re at. We can promise you rewarding work that makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing global network, and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

Our competitive package offers a wide range of benefits and rewards.

The position

We are seeking a highly capable and proactive Financial Accountant to support the accounting, reporting, and consolidation activities of our Digital Solutions business. This is a role for a self-starter—someone confident operating independently, taking ownership of technical areas and driving tasks through to completion with minimal supervision. The successful candidate will bring strong technical accounting expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with Group Finance and other stakeholders.

Accountabilities

• Prepare monthly IFRS consolidations for the digital business, ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance.
• Maintain and reconcile intercompany balances, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of mismatches.
• Prepare statutory accounts, ensuring compliance with IFRS and local GAAP requirements.
• Maintain, reconcile, and review capex balances with a focus on intangible assets and overseeing amortisation postings.
• Preparation of accounting memos.
• Provide support to the Financial Controller for the annual audit and budget.
• Prepare and file VAT returns.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent.
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS and financial reporting experience.
• Experience with consolidation of multiple entities, intercompany accounting, and statutory accounts.
• Confident working independently and taking ownership of key accounting areas.
• Self-starter who takes initiative, solves problems proactively, and works effectively with minimal supervision.
• Confident communicator able to interact with senior stakeholders and challenge where necessary.
• Able to work in a fast-paced organisation and reliable under pressure.

At RES we celebrate difference as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience of our people.