Job Description Summary

Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

The Lead Finance Specialist is responsible for providing key controllership leadership and guidance to the finance and non-finance teams for the United Kingdom and more broadly for the North & West Europe Region (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Spain, Portugal and Ireland).

This will include the active involvement in financial reporting of the company, the implementation of its policies and internal controls and leading audit requirements.

Job Description

Role Summary:

• This position will report to the Senior North & West Europe Controller and will work closely with the rest of the NWE Region Controllership team to ensure we meet our key controllership objectives.
• You will also be expected to communicate with senior leadership from the business line and HQ organisations to execute your deliverables.
• In this role you will use your experience and expertise to solve problems, execute objectives for self and others, and impact short-term and some long-term business goals.
• This involves being autonomous on some topics (e.g audit coordination), where others will require escalation and guidance from senior levels.
• We are expecting the candidate to lead and drive actions; understanding complex issues and providing resolutions.
• We also expect the candidate to be able to work under pressure and adhere to tight deadlines at times to ensure the objectives of the organisation are met.

• Audit requirements
  • Manage internal and external audit works for your scope to ensure on-time delivery of the statutory requirements, execution of the audit plan against the regulatory deadlines.
  • We expect you to be able to utilise your technical knowledge to discuss technical matters with the audit team.
  • Coordinate all deliverables with the relevant owners & responsible parties to ensure documentation is provided to high quality and on time.
  • Ensure that any findings are resolved with appropriate owners (Stat, OTR Finance, FP&A, HR, Tax, Legal, other functions) for both US GAAP and local statutory purposes.
  • Look for opportunities to improve the audit process, including identifying opportunities to reduce stat to GAAP adjustments by addressing the root cause.

• Statutory reporting obligations
  • Ability to direct and guide the business organization with the required disclosures and notes required for the statutory filings using their technical knowledge and expertise e.g For the UK, section 172, IFRS16 requirements.
  • Support the compilation of local supplementary statistical filings.

• Closing and reporting
  • Actively participate to the financial closing and reporting activities of the Grid Solutions business in the UK and the other North Europe countries - review and follow up on edit checks, TBZ accounts, month end key account analysis, MJE validations in line with policy.
  • Actively participate to the completeness and quality of accounts reconciliations and balance sheet analysis on a monthly and quarterly basis.
  • Execute as necessary any remediation plans for account reconciliation open & unreconciled items.
  • Be the first point of contact for the UK, Denmark and Norway for the business, local finance and Hub / Genpact teams.

• Technical controllership:
  • Ensure compliance with GE policies. Facilitate implementations of new rules and new tools impacting finance reporting.
  • Review processes to improve overall efficiency, particularly LEAN simplification initiatives.
  • Collaborate with the Vernova Hub and Genpact teams to ensure the compliance, integrity of the accounts, and harmonisation of the accounting treatment.

• A degree in accounting or finance and/or a recognised accounting qualification.
• Proven years of experience in auditing, accounting, or financial reporting - ideally over 7 years within this area.
• Managing statutory audits / project management experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency of US and UK accounting requirements.
• Must be fluent in English.
• Highly proficient use of MS Office, SAP experience preferable.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate complex business issues in a clear / concise manner to multiple levels of the organization and other functions.
• Strong analytical skills - able to link financial results to operational performance drivers.
• Adaptable / Flexible - being open to change in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or to work in ambiguous situations.
• Integrity - accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions and when dealing with others.
• Someone who is proactive and determined, committed to delivering high-quality work.
• Team player.