Financial Accountant

About Wood Thilsted

Wood Thilsted is designing the global transition to green energy.Together, through unmatched engineering and collaborative teamwork, we can shape a brighter future for our planet. We’re offshore wind engineering experts, and we invite you to join us.

Ours is a purpose-driven company. Our engineering helps speed the transition towards a greener planet Earth, with the wellbeing of our employees being every bit as vital.

As a company, we strive for two things: Technical excellence, and to provide the best overall value to our clients. As a culture, knowledge sharing, mutual trust and a great social atmosphere is key. Wood Thilsted is a truly exciting company to work for, something we’re most proud of.

About the Role

We're looking for a hands on financial accountant with excellent attention to detail. This role offers genuine variety across financial and management accounting opportunities within a team with a strong collaborative working culture. Advantages but not requirements include a candidate who has experience with EU companies, particularly Poland exposure.

Your Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Management

• Complete month end tasks such as prepayments and accruals and key account reconciliations
• Ownership of individual entity P&L & BS accuracy with meaningful commentary and variance analysis
• Balance sheet reconciliations for international and UK entities with clear documentation
• Oversight of AP/AR processes, PO controls and expense programmes
• Manage the administration of the Corporate Calendar within outlook
• Complete project expenses each month and submit to CMAP
• Work with project managers as a business partner to manage their expenses and customer payments
• Maintenance of the asset register

2. Treasury and Cash

• Weekly cash flow processing, bank reconciliations and analysis submitted to the Leadership Team
• Review cash balances given expected month end outflows (payroll/ tax) 
• Assimilating key information for cashflow reviews and first reviewing multi-currency payment runs

3. Business Partnering

• Reconcile debtor balances and liaise with clients for late payments
• Assist with analytical projects and with the commercial team key projects
• Supporting finance system improvements and change projects
• Provide monthly reports to the business, comparing spend vs budget

4. Tax 

• Review and submission of the International Entities Financial Information to the BDO team each month
• Oversight of VAT and Corporation tax calculations and be the first point of contact for professional advisers accounting queries and submission
• Review yearend financial statements for accuracy and post any audit adjustments required into Xero to ensure the records align.

There will also be a requirement to help with ad hoc projects such as audit and corporation tax across multiple entities as well as holiday cover for others in the team as required.

Skills & Experience 

Essential

• Strong financial accounting: month‑end, prepayments, accruals, P&L/BS ownership
• Accurate reconciliations with good documentation discipline
• Weekly cashflow, bank reconciliations, and oversight of AP/AR
• Business partnering with project and commercial teams
• Experience with VAT, corporation tax processes and year‑end support
• High attention to detail, organisation and analytical thinking

Nice to have

• International experience: EU entities experience, especially Poland, and multi‑currency accounting.

• Systems: Power BI and Xero experience

In return we offer you excellent opportunities to influence your daily work, develop new competences and work on interesting projects.

At Wood Thilsted, we care about our people, and we are committed to a brighter future. We have defined our set of values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do. Our work environment is a place where everyone can be themselves and be their best. We are result-orientated and innovation-driven at a high professional level and with excellence in delivery. Besides this we also offer competitive compensation and flexibility in working hours.  

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