Accountant (UK Portfolio)

Quintas Energy is seeking an Accountant with at least 2 years of full-cycle accounting experience for the UK Portfolio. The Accountant will be responsible for maintaining a log and preparing the majority of the journal entries in the general ledger, analysing appropriate balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis, calculating and reconciling depreciation of all the fixed asset accounts, doing bank reconciliation on a monthly basis, and preparing annual work papers for year-end audits.

The ideal candidate should have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting (preferred) or Finance required. CPA or Chartered Accountant preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as an Accountant.
• Progressive experience in financial operations, planning, budgeting, and reporting.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Expert knowledge in Excel needed including VLOOKUP’s, formulas, and Pivot Tables.
• Working knowledge of IFRS / UK and /or Spanish GAAP

Skills in the following will be assessed: 

• Languages: at least B2 in English.
• Excellent communication skills over email and telephone.
• Must be able to work in a team environment and in a client-facing role.
• Must be able to adapt and flex to a changing environment.
• Must have analytical, communication, and computer skills.
• Understanding of mathematics and accounting and financial processes.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to solve problems, take responsibility and start adding value to the team immediately.
• Ethical behaviour.

Roles and Responsibilities

• General accounts, accruals and prepayments, invoicing and bookkeeping to SPVs.
• Calculate monthly accrued income.
• Preparation of monthly and quarterly management accounts.
• Prepares monthly closes and reports for the clients.
• Preparation of internal and external audits.
• Credit control, budgets, cash flows and payments online under BACs and CHAPs.
• Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Preparing and submitting VAT / Corporation tax returns and liaison with HMRC and tax advisors.
• Preparing documentation and justifications for VAT inspections/penalties.
• Preparing client KPIs for review.
• Dealing with customers and other departments especially engineering and legal.
• Fulfil annual statutory accounts and prepare SPV level tagging for submission to HMRC (UK) and liaison with auditors.
• Report Aged Debtors and Creditors.
• SPV level accruals and prepayments and maintenance of all trackers.
• Assistance in cash flow forecast (short term) – cash needs report.
• Support preparing trading position report.
• Assistance in cash sweep calculation.

Quintas Energy offers a unique work environment in the centre of Seville:

• Latest Microsoft technology stack: Serverless, Azure Functions, ASP.NET MVC, EventHub, Azure storage, SQL Server…
• Young, international, and friendly environment.
• We are not a consulting company. Direct exposure to the business.
• Training.
• 9 to 5 schedule.