Low Carbon Contracts Company
Finance Reporting Manager (9 months FTC)

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Department: Finance & Procurement
Employment Type: Contract / Temp
Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom; Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Description
Contract type: 9-month FTC
Hours: 37.5 / week
Salary: circa £72,000 depending on experience
Location: Leeds city centre OR Birmingham city centre
WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week
Flexible working: Variety of flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion e.g. Compressed 9-day fortnight.
Reports to: Lead Finance Manager (Finance Operations)
Deadline Note: We reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised deadline if there are a high volume of applications.
Role Summary
The Finance Reporting Manager will report into the Finance Manager. The role will lead a team responsible for all transactions and processes in relation to the operational costs of LCCC and ESC. The role is responsible for preparing management accounts, internal reporting and the DESNZ submissions.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver effective management reporting to management and the Board, including the quarterly report, providing reports that Finance Business Partners can use in discussions with the business to understand financial performance, including insights regarding variances to forecast, causes and future trends.
- Own the reporting process to DESNZ, or another Government department, ensuring adherence to the current Finance Reporting letter.
- Develop monthly reporting with scheme, cost centre and funding scheme aggregations, ensuring auditability of apportionments and process.
- Oversee processes and controls for ensuring the business allocates time between schemes.
- Work with the Planning Manager to ensure scheme allocations used reflect actual observations and feed into future forecasts.
- Own reporting on projects managed through the Change process, including intangible assets that are internally and externally generated.
- Manage the actual submission process to DESNZ and the business partner relationship with DESNZ Finance Business Partners.
- Line manage the Management Accountant, Assistant Manager and Accounts Analysts.
- Oversee the process for invoicing DESNZ, or another Government department, and intercompany.
- Oversee prepayments, accruals and other operational cost month end tasks, collaborating with the External Reporting Manager, New Schemes Accountant and Lead Settlement Accountant to ensure alignment with IFRS and LCCC accounting policies.
- Oversee the VAT submission performed by the Accounts Analysts.
- Own the relationship with Datel and become LCCC’s Sage reporting expert, enabling expansion to report on future new schemes.
- Manage Reporting team KPIs and the Finance and Procurement Scorecard KPIs.
- Work with the External Reporting Manager at year end as required, contributing to the statutory accounts process.
- Oversee Finance authorisation and controls in the procure to pay process.
- Support and deputise for the Planning Manager or other members of the team when required.
- Oversee the payroll process in collaboration with the People team.
- Oversee the operational expenditure payment process.
- Oversee submissions to DESNZ and the working relationship with the RED Finance Business Partners.
- Oversee procurement of new Expenses system including scoping, supplier selection, implementation and oversight of new process within team.
- Undertake ad hoc work arising within the team.
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Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- A fully qualified accountant with a recognised body and relevant post qualification experience.
- Advanced Excel skills with experience of financial model building with multiple dimensions, for example cost centres and business units or schemes.
- Demonstrable experience of management and collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
- Good influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to keep relevant parties informed of objectives and plans and secure their input and buy in.
- Proven experience of leading a team to provide first class financial management information.
- Proven experience of driving process improvements within teams
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI (user), and experience of analysing data from an ERP system.
- Knowledge of the utilities industry and/or experience of working with Government is beneficial but not essential.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to establish relationships with a range of people across and outside the business to support delivery of business outcomes.
- Proactive, with the ability to supervise and coach more junior members of staff in a newly created business.
- Knowledge of a backend coding language, for example Python.
- Experience of a building with visualisation tools, for example SQL or Power BI.


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Employee Benefits
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. Key benefits that may be available depending on the role include:
- Annual performance based bonus, up to 10%
- 25 days annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
- Up to 8% pension contribution
- Financial support and time off for study relevant to your role, plus a professional membership subscription
- Employee referral scheme (up to £1500), and colleague recognition scheme
- Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave and shared parental leave
- Free, confidential employee assistance, including financial management, family care, mental health, and on-call GP service
- Three paid volunteering days a year
- Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
- Family savings on days out and English Heritage, gym discounts, cash back and discounts at selected retailers
- Employee resource groups
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