Interim Head of Transactional Finance - FTC 12 Months

About The Role

As part of the Ecotricity Group Finance team you will report to the Finance Director. You will play an important role in overseeing and managing the Group’s Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable functions. You will be required to lead and motivate a diverse team, have strong organisational skills, understand the importance of strong controls and have a desire to continuously improve processes.

Core Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Manage and lead a team responsible for various transactional finance activities. Provide guidance, mentorship and performance management to the team.
• Ledger Management: Oversee the day-to-day transactional finance operations within the accounts receivable and accounts payable ledgers. Ensure the timely and accurate processing of invoices, credit notes and payments.
• Financial Controls: Understand what strong, efficient processes and controls look like. Ensure adherence to controls put in place with regular monitoring. Place safeguards around data processing to maintain standards around data privacy.
• Reconciliation: Oversee regular reconciliations including supplier statements and customer accounts.
• Expenses: Monitor and control business expenses ensuring adherence to the company’s policy.
• Finance Transformation & Process Improvement: Support the finance transformation project by working as part of a wider Finance team to deliver improvements in processing speed and quality to ensure the highest possible accuracy and timeliness of financial. customer and supplier information.
• Reporting: Prepare and present reporting information to senior management and your peers that demonstrates efficiency of operations, quality of outcomes, adequacy of controls, and errors resolution.

General Responsibilities

• Other ad hoc work as required to support the business including supporting business wide projects as required.

About You

Essential Skills & Expertise

• Significant experience working in a finance team in a medium or large organisation.
• Proven ability to lead and develop teams.
• Ability to demonstrate you understand what a professional finance culture looks like and can support your team in growing and maintaining that culture.
• Understanding of finance processes, what best practice looks like and the controls that need to be in place to monitor and maintain them.
• Experience of improving business processes, collaboratively with colleagues inside your team and outside of it, to deliver better outcomes.
• Proficiency with MS Office suite of tools and financial software.

Desirable (but not essential) Skills & Expertise

• Experience in using project management techniques to deliver pieces of work in a timely and efficient manner.
• Utilities sector experience.
• Experience of mapping and reviewing processes.
• Previous use of Workday FINS.

Key Attributes/Competencies

Committed to what we do:

• Ability to see the bigger picture and how your team’s responsibilities are a part of that and impact others.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Striving to be open, fair and ethical:

• Accountability for your team’s culture and performance.
• Strong verbal, written and oral communication skills. With the ability to present and persuade across a variety of levels.

Team player:

• Exceptional interpersonal skills and personal impact.
• Positive resolution of cross-team challenges: Ability to work with a diverse group of stakeholders to find a common solution.
• Works as part of a team to make a positive impact.

We never rest on our laurels:

• Ability to lead change and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong prioritisation and organisational skills.

Treat others with respect:

• Ability to empathise with colleagues, customers and suppliers.
• Inclusive: Can demonstrates they have built diverse, strong teams.
• Supports the well-being of colleagues.

About Us

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution

Volunteering day

Hybrid working

Various company discounts (including shops, gym, 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 targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

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.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. 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 build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of - grass.

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.