Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant

Location: Birmingham, hybrid

Start date: ASAP, end of 2026

Responsibilities:

• Lead the accounting for certain companies including monthly and quarterly ledger entries and interactions with Controlling, Treasury, UFS and CoCC.

• Lead on certain areas of the financial statements

• Act as subject matter lead on certain processes and topics

• Represent the ABP in appropriate forums.

• Drive continuous improvement in own areas.

• Be responsible for the accounting for certain Uniper operational sites and businesses.

• Prepare balance sheet and account reconciliations for certain companies and certain balance sheet items

• Develop strong working relationships to ensure that there is knowledge of the business and its expected developments with a view to converting this into the consequent impact on financial statements and to validate the accuracy of the statements.

• Preparation of any supplemental information required on a monthly and quarterly basis for the Centre of Competence for Consolidation.

• Ensure that information provided by the businesses is validated and challenged prior to being processed by UFS.

• Prepare statutory accounts for businesses where responsibility lies.

• Ensure that the group reporting packages are technically correct and in accordance with the Uniper accounting manual and International Financial Reporting Standards.

• Ensure that the accounting ledgers are compliant with UK tax requirements (Corporation tax, VAT, PAYE etc).

• Liaise with external audit to fully support audits.

Essential:

• Strong IT skills and IT literate, with Excel

• Fully/partly qualified ACCA, AAT, CIMA

• Audit experience