Summary:

Recurrent Energy is one of the world’s largest and most geographically diversified utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership, and operations platforms. With an industry-leading team of in-house energy experts, we are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and function as Canadian Solar’s global development and power services business.

The selected candidate will be a member of Recurrent Energy’s Global FP&A team reporting to the Global O&M FP&A Manager and supporting him with the Global Consolidated Report. This role will be responsible for all the FP&A activities in EMEA (UK, Spain, Italy, South Africa etc.) with a specific focus in UK and relationship management, preparing monthly closing reporting and communicating the results to the Management.

Responsibilities:

• Being the Business Partner for the country leaders in the EMEA region to optimize forecasts, manage risks and drive improvements to financial performance;
• Lead the reporting process for the EMEA region, including preparation of budgets, business plan and financial reports;                
• Develop, consolidate and coordinate budget process, including the elaboration of forecasting models and database files;

• Assist in the company’s monthly, quarterly, and yearly closing, conducting account reconciliations and analysis as required.

• Monitoring of the regional cash flow position on weekly basis.
• Review and approve contracts, purchase orders and payments according to the established delegation of authority procedure.
• Update cost and expense trend reports, analyzing variations and ensuring alignment with the forecast.
• Elaborate reports and building up new analysis ad hoc for the Management. Analysis by Project, Portfolio for the UK entity.  

• Liaise with other Regions and with the HDQ in order to provide the information and data required.
• Coordinate members assigned to the FP&A team in EMEA (currently 1 resource).

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related discipline

• 5+ years overall experience in Finance Department, preferable 2+ year in Accounting.
• Minimum of 2 year of relevant work experience along with people management experience
• US GAAP reporting exposure. Good knowledge of UK GAAP + IFRS
• Demonstrated ability to perform related functions in adherence to regulations, laws, policies, and standards
• Effective communication skills with individuals at all levels of the organisation
• Able to deal with people tactfully, confidentially, diplomatically, and professionally at all times
• Computer literacy, including effective skills in SAP, MS Office (strong Excel and Power Point knowledge). Nice to have: Tipalti and Xero knowledges.
• Exceptional organizational skills and time management skills
• Attention to detail in all areas of work
• Experience in service companies or maintenance business is a plus.

Work location

Based in EMEA region, available to travel frequently to our main locations (UK, Spain and Italy)