Energy Management Accountant

OPPORTUNITY:

Excellent new London role working with one of the most impressive European investors of renewable energy and infrastructure projects. They are looking for a recently qualified (or finalist) Accountant to join the Portfolio team.

THE ROLE:

Financial management of the funds

• Fund accounting, assist with month-end journal postings for the Fund monthly reporting.
• Including the posting of institutional and Holdco level invoices through the team’s procurement system.
• Liaise with Group Treasury to ensure payments are made.
• Fund forecasting
• Assist with the management of all distributions and capital movements
• Support development of financial policies, budgets and audit processes for underlying investments, working closely with the operational teams on delivery
• Support the quarterly portfolio valuations process, working closely with the operational teams on delivery and owning the final reports
• Assist with annual audits across the portfolio and SPV teams including the management of the OEAM relationship with audit/tax compliance providers

Investor relations

• Responding to investor questions or concerns related to finances within the Energy portfolio
• Ensuring reports and financial information are relevant, accurate, and timely and continually improve
• Support any client related initiatives

On-boarding

• Oversee the financial onboarding of new Funds and Assets
• Support transaction due diligence as needed
• Support any pre or post acquisition restructurings that may be needed

THE INDIVIDUAL:

• The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated individual, ideally recently CA qualified.
• They need to be exceptionally well organised, plan ahead, hardworking and comfortable delivering accurate information to tight deadlines. 
• His/her role is to deliver the month-end processing for the Fund level Holdco’s along with ad hoc project and onboarding assistance as necessary.   
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills a plus.   
• He/she will be passionate about detail, digging into information received and taking accountability for the accuracy and quality of their reports.  T
• They will thrive in fast moving and growing business – continually improving the systems, processes and the quality of deliverables and be comfortable owning the quality and accuracy of their work.