Senior Accountant

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.

Every day, our 7,750 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.
We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.

To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all.

Assystem is a leading Global Engineering Consultancy tasked with shaping the future of the energy landscape and helping to deliver net-zero solutions.
Whether through our New Build, Decommissioning, Defence or Infrastructure business areas and partnerships, we need your talent to meet our demanding growth plans in the UK.

Join us and develop your career in a world class, inspiring & supportive environment.

This role covers the financial management of all overhead departments within Assystem Energy and Infrastructure.

💼 Work in conjunction with overhead department heads to ensure maximum profitability by challenging spend and headcount to identify and deliver opportunities.
📅 Lead monthly overhead reviews to discuss and review costs in month plus expected spend to the year end.
📊 Ensure overhead cost owners understand the cost drivers in their area and are accountable and empowered to influence them.
📞 Act as finance point of contact for any overhead related activity, including analysis for overhead leads, and Group reporting.
🔍 Ensure integrity of information within monthly overhead packs, reconciling actuals and forecasts to source documents/systems.
📈 Lead all overhead month-end reporting:
📑 Summary of P&L overheads position at monthly accounts review
🖥️ Presentation of monthly position for CFO and MD review.
🧾 Explanations of under and over-spends in the period and expected future performance against budget/forecast.
🤝 Work closely with the accounting department to ensure quality of the financial data and adherence to the month-end timetable. In particular, managing accruals and prepayments of overhead costs at the month end.
🧾 Ensure all overhead related manual accruals and prepayments held on the balance sheet are valid and well supported with backup and commentary.
📝 Create and maintain Budget/Forecast templates and help overhead teams to complete them.
🔄 Consolidate & make preliminary review of overhead budget & forecasts for CFO review.
📊 Bridge budget/forecast to latest comparator including narrative on investments, overhead strategy and drivers for variances.
🎥 Prepare and present presentation materials that summarise the forecast/budget and any variances to last version.
📦 Support the Sales team with Sales Order reporting, including weekly Flash reports, monthly order intake reports, and a live projection to year end.
📊 Meet Group reporting requirements for order intake and order backlog reporting, and validate order backlog throughout the year.
📅 Support the production of sales order targets each year.
💼 Support the bid team with bid spend reporting and associated booking code management.
🤝 Support the wider Controlling team as required.

🎓 ACCA/CIMA Qualified (or equivalent) or qualified by experience
💼 Relevant experience; ideally 5 years:
💡 Experience of budgeting and forecasting, particularly challenging stakeholders on the robustness of their forecast
💰 Experience financially managing overhead cost centres
📊 Experience of financially managing P&Ls
💻 Experience of computerised accounting systems necessary; knowledge of IFS will be valuable but is not essential
📊 Strong Microsoft Excel skills and experience in data manipulation
🇬🇧 You must be eligible to work in the UK.

Softer Skills:
🗣️ Ability to communicate complex finance information clearly and concisely to a non-finance audience.
⏰ Ability to balance various priorities and deadlines to deliver this role in an autonomous way.
🔄 Continuous improvement mindset and an appetite to identify the root causes of issues or inefficiencies and embed change.
🌍 Comfortable working remotely with stakeholders with diverse backgrounds.
🔍 High level of attention to detail.

Job Location

The base office for this role is Blackburn, on a hybrid basis. Hybrid details: 2 days a week in the office (Tuesday and Wednesday), the remaining 3 can be worked from home.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.