Financial Accountant - FTC

Number of employees

110

London, United Kingdom

Posted on: 2025-08-01

Category: carbon

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Carbon Clean is an established global leader in industrial carbon capture solutions helping essential, but hard-to-abate, industries decarbonise. Our innovative solutions significantly reduce the costs and environmental impacts of carbon capture compared to conventional technologies.

Technology to achieve 'net zero'.

Completion of UK reporting processes:

  • Maintain accurate and complete books of account to defined standards and in accordance with the group’s accounting policies, structured to enable optimal performance reporting.
    Ensure adherence to all financial reporting deadlines across the group.
  • Ensure adherence to policies and procedures.
  • Support with the preparation of the UK’s statutory reporting requirements and audit procedures.

Perform UK month-end control processes:

  • Manage all aspects of lease accounting in accordance with IFRS 16 for UK leases.
  • Process month-end manual adjustments, including review of project accruals.
  • Prepare detailed analysis of project expenditure to support forecasting processes.
  • Ensure that all foreign currency transactions are correctly recorded and translated on the general ledger, including accounting of any resulting FX gains and losses and/or revaluation reserves in accordance with IAS 21

Project Accounting & Revenue Recognition:

  • Develop a deep understanding of individual projects and the company’s project portfolio.
    Liaise and collaborate closely with the project control and project management teams.
  • Take ownership of revenue and project accounting and ensure this complies with IFRS 15 and any other applicable standards. Continually develop effective and efficient transactional processes and controls. Ensure proper matching.
  • Apply and enforce the company’s revenue recognition and project accounting policies.
  • Validate project stage of completion estimates.
  • Manage project-related intercompany transactions.
  • Support the process for the preparation and submission of grant funded project claims, including intra and end of project audits.
  • Support the management company’s time and expense tracking systems and processes.

Cash administration and management:

  • Support the UK cash flow forecasting process and forward planning of currency and exchange needs.
  • Act as key point of contact for any UK employee queries regarding finance processes Support UK/EMEA tax compliance in conjunction with external advisers (payroll taxes, sales taxes, corporation/income taxes, withholding taxes) and preparation and submission of quarterly UK VAT Returns to HMRC
  • Support the process of developing claim methodologies and preparation of R&D tax relief claims for submission to HMRC
  • Support to the Financial Controller - UK with the preparation of Statutory Accounts and the audit process.
  • Support the continuous improvement and development of our ERP solution, and integrity of financial reporting, including provision of support to financial teams in the US and India to ensure consistency and continuous improvement of financial reporting systems and processes.
  • Ad-hoc projects as required.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you should have a combination of the below knowledge, skills, and experience:

 

  • Qualified Financial Accountant with strong financial acumen – ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification preferred
  • Strong working knowledge of IFRS
  • Experience working with SAP preferable, but not essential
  • Project accounting experience with excellent knowledge and practical application of revenue recognition, and long-term project accounting standards (IFRS).
  • A high level of motivation, with the energy and drive to “make things happen” and grow
  • Strive to do the right thing: defend principles and policies
  • Ability to solve problems without seeking guidance and supervision
  • Pride in providing high quality, accurate and timely information, with a close attention to detail and always looking to improve the clarity and value of outputs
  • Monitors own work performance and understands how own performance contributes to departmental and Company objectives
  • Demonstrable experience of developing strong working relationships with stakeholders at all levels, through a consistent, confident and open communication style
  • Inquisitive, curious and challenges the status quo, always looking for ways to improve things
  • Accomplished verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint presentation skills
  • Knowledge of oil & gas, steel, cement and/or chemicals is highly desirable but not essential

Benefits

We give you:

  • The opportunity to continue to develop both personally and professionally, in our rapidly growing company
  • A brilliant company culture that encourages initiative, collaboration, and positivity at work
  • Great office environment in our new London HQ, close to the South Bank, and Waterloo, Blackfriars and London Bridge stations
  • Hybrid working – with the flexibility to work from home for up to 3 days a week

 

Benefits & perks include:

  • 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays 
  • Private Healthcare (family cover available for all colleagues) 
  • Health Cash Plan 
  • Income Protection and Critical Illness Cover 
  • Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programme 
  • Generous pension contribution – minimum of 5% contributed by the company 
  • Cycle to Work Scheme 
  • Electric Car Scheme 
  • Employee Perks scheme 
  • Support towards professional qualification and memberships

Equal Opportunities

We are passionate and committed to our people. At Carbon Clean, you will be working in an inclusive environment. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation and identity, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

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