Full time, 12 Month FTC
Salary £60,000-£70,000
Closing date: 20th October
We're looking for a Senior Reporting Accountant to join Drax on a 12-month fixed-term contract, supporting the delivery of our external reporting obligations. This is an excellent opportunity to join a complex, global business and gain exposure to high-profile financial reporting activities.
Reporting into the Head of External Reporting, you'll play a key role in the preparation of the Group Annual Report and Accounts, Half Year Results and statutory accounts, ensuring compliance with IFRS, UK GAAP and regulatory reporting requirements.
You’ll play a key role in providing technical accounting expertise across a range of complex business activities and lead accounting analysis for significant transactions, preparing clear and insightful papers for senior stakeholders and the Audit Committee.
Working closely with external auditors, you'll support the year-end and interim audit processes, helping to resolve queries efficiently and ensuring successful audit outcomes.
You'll also be responsible for ensuring all statutory and regulatory filings are delivered accurately and on time, while keeping abreast of changes in accounting standards and implementing new requirements across the business. This is an excellent opportunity to apply your technical expertise in a complex, listed organisation while working with stakeholders across the UK and North America.
We're seeking a technically strong, qualified accountant who enjoys solving complex accounting issues and delivering high-quality financial reporting in a fast-paced environment.
You'll ideally:
· Be a fully qualified ACA/ACCA accountant with strong technical knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP.
· Have experience in external financial reporting and statutory account preparation within a large corporate or listed environment.
· Have the ability to interpret complex accounting issues and communicate clearly to senior stakeholders.
· Have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial systems.
You may currently be working as a Reporting Accountant, Group Accountant, Senior Accountant, Finance Manager, Audit Manager or External Reporting Manager and be looking for an opportunity to broaden your experience within a large, complex organisation.
We’re not just talking about making a difference, we’re making it happen. We generate dispatchable, renewable power and create stable energy in an uncertain world. Building on our proud heritage, we have ambition to become the global leader in sustainable biomass and carbon removals.
You’ll be joining our teams of practical doers, future thinkers and business champions. We’re enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future for all, and working hard to decarbonise the planet for generations to come.
As you help us to shape the future, we’ve shaped our rewards and benefits to help you thrive and support
your lifestyle. If successful in this role you’ll get:
· A discretionary bonus depending on company performance
· Private Healthcare
· SAYE (Sharesave): discretionary scheme from time to time
· Personal accident cover
· Group personal pension plan where we’ll pay up to 10%
· Holiday 25 days plus bank holidays
· Reimbursement of the cost of your annual membership of one relevant and appropriate professional body
We’re committed to making a tangible impact on the climate challenge we all face. Drax is where your individual purpose can work alongside your career drive. We work as part of a team that shares a passion for doing what’s right for the future. With Drax you can shape your career and a future for generations to come.
Together, we make it happen.
At Drax, we’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and respected, regardless of their role. To make this a reality, we actively work to better represent the communities we operate in, foster inclusion, and establish fair processes. Through these actions, we build the trust needed for all colleagues at Drax to contribute their perspectives and talents, no matter their background. Find out more about our approach here.
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Drax is enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future
Drax Group is a renewable energy company engaged in renewable power generation, the production of sustainable biomass and the sale of renewable electricity to businesses.
Drax operates a generation portfolio of sustainable biomass, hydro-electric and pumped hydro storage assets across four sites in England and Scotland. It is the UK’s largest source of renewable electricity. The company also operates a global bioenergy supply business with manufacturing facilities at 13 sites in the United States and Canada, producing compressed wood pellets for its own use and for customers in Europe and Asia.
The Group employs 3,400 people in the UK and North America.
Enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future is Drax Group’s purpose and in 2019, it announced a world-leading ambition to be carbon negative by 2030, using Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technology to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere at scale whilst delivering reliable renewable electricity.
