COMPTABLE / STARTUP F/H - Comptabilité (H/F) - Windsor, ON, Canada - Centrica plc

Description

We're so much more than an energy company. We're a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Whether you're developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

British Gas (BG) New Business and Net Zero is hiring a Financial accountant to maintain the monthly financial accounts and processes for the EV Mobility business.

Are you an experienced, qualified Finance professional with the curiosity and determination to help improve processes and help a business with strong growth ambitions? Location - Flexible home working with occasional travel to our Windsor offices.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Financial accountant to join the New Business and Net Zero finance team at the heart of this exciting new growth business.

Through New Business and Net Zero , we install, optimise and service green devices and upgrade customer's homes to reduce emissions, improve resilience and reduce their energy consumption.

Reporting to the Net Zero Financial Controller this key role is primarily focused on developing and maintaining the monthly financial accounts and processes for the businesses with strong growth aspirations across Low Carbon Homes (incl. Solar, Heat pumps, Insulation) and Electric Vehicles.

This will involve close working across the other Finance teams and the business to make sure that the developing business is understood and ensuring the right accounting, reporting and controls are in place.

The successful candidate must be able to work through accounting consequences of new ideas, challenge thinking and implement and monitor controls to ensure robust financial results.

Develop deep understanding of business activities to ensure that these are accounted for correctly and robust controls and processes are in place
Support the wider Finance and business teams to provide accurate accounts which can be relied upon for decision making and future planning
Support Transformation activities through design and delivery of changes to reporting methodologies, to ensure this new area has great insight into performance
Own the month-end close process, including accurate and timely preparation and review of journals and results, reporting to the Net Zero Financial Controller

Maintaining the integrity of the balance sheet by completing and reviewing reconciliations and clearing open items on a timely basis.

Assisting with queries on the statutory accounts for legal entities and supporting audit fieldwork queries
Providing ad hoc support for wider finance teams
ACA/ACCA/CIMA Accounting qualification and relevant PQE
Collaborative approach, providing support to other finance teams as needed
Experience with financial accounting and reporting systems e.g. SAP, BPC
A process-focused individual with a passion for continuous improvement and ability to deliver change involving a start up business and multiple stakeholders
Ability to present and explain financial accounting treatments in a clear and simple way.
At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives.

We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled.

Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it

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