Senior Consolidation & Reporting Lead

About Lightsource bp

Lightsource bp is a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects. We are a 50:50 joint venture with bp with a mission to help drive the world’s transition to low carbon energy.

With solar set to increase tenfold in the next 20 years, we are well-positioned to capitalize on this growth. By joining the Lightsource bp team, you will ‘be the change’ on the world’s energy transition to a more sustainable future.

We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit as we continue to push the boundaries of an ever-changing energy landscape. By choosing a career with us, you can expect a challenging and fulfilling role surrounded by people who are passionate and have brilliant ideas about sustainable technology, innovation and making the world a better place.

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting into the Group Financial Controller, this role will be chiefly responsible for the monthly consolidation, delivering insightful, and accurate reporting to both internal and external stakeholders. Outside of month end, the individual will also be striving to make ongoing improvements to reporting accuracy and completeness by reviewing balances and refining estimates and judgements.

The role partner with wider finance teams and the business to ensure proactive engagement to support close ongoing P/L and BS management.

Monthly / Quarterly Reporting

• Support the monthly reporting cycle and close process
• Responsible for timely and accurate reporting across the primary statements to all key stakeholders
• Review balances in-month and material monthly movements to ensure accuracy for the close
• Run exercises to strive for ongoing balance sheet clean up
• Responsible for maintaining and reviewing centralised journals
• Providing controls and assurance around classification and completeness of legal entities pulling into the consolidation.
• Ensure quarter-end upload of GL into bp is performed in accordance with agreed timelines

Partnering

• Reconcile balances and investigate variances and large movements with Finance Business Partnering team and local Finance Managers
• Lead “as-is” and “to-be” processes and collaborate with decentralised teams to ensure consistency in application and processes on a go-forward basis
• Engage with key stakeholders with commercial acuity to problem solve complex areas
• Support in SOX controls

External Audit & Compliance

• Support the transformation of external & internal audit processes within an evolving business.
• Partnering with local finance teams and auditors to deliver Group and Subsidiary audits by required deadlines.
• Significantly contributing to the Group’s external audit process.
• Prepares reports that document practical recommendations to resolve issues, including supervising remediation statuses with the internal business partners to inspire change and improvement across the organization.

Knowledge & Experience

• 5+ years post qualification experience
• Top 6 audit training
• Technically strong. Up to date IFRS knowledge including IFRS 9, 15 and 16 (US GAAP desirable)
• Multi-currency group consolidation in large organisations (essential)
• Expert in using ERP system (preferably SAP S/4 HANA)

General Skills/Attributes

• Demonstrable experience working in a growing, high turnover business, responsibility for all controls and processes
• Ability and confidence to deliver, with a high degree of autonomy and with high quality standards
• Proven experience of leading and developing and group audit process
• Team-player used to work in cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work autonomously and multi-task
• Ability to forge long term professional relationships with third parties
• Proven expertise in team leadership in complex, high paced environments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Related discipline
• Qualifications in either ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Personal Qualities

• Fluent English
• Proactive, autonomous, flexible, and driven
• Forward thinking, a problem solver and solution provider
• Able to promote a positive working culture within the team
• Strong organisational and excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

Why you’ll want to work for us

Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow; a place where your ideas and opinions matter.

Be you

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.

Be responsible

Our culture is driven by our core values. From operating safely to ensuring our solar projects are responsible and promote biodiversity. 

Be recognized

Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, pension and other local benefits.

Be inspired

Beyond your day-to-day working life at Lightsource bp, there’s a variety of initiatives that will contribute to your own personal development. Initiatives to get involved with including our charitable causes, supporting our solar honey project or our sustainability initiatives.

Our Core Values

Lightsource bp truly cares about creating a sustainable future through safe, responsible and meaningful low carbon energy projects. Our core values of Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability and Drive are the guiding principles for everything we do. 

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