Project Accountant

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) is leading the international clean energy transition as the world seeks to stay within 1.5c global warming target. Our mission is to ensure that wind power establishes itself as the answer to today’s energy challenges, providing substantial environmental and economic benefits. We have innovative programmes and collaborations promoting sustainable offshore wind development, mentoring women working in wind industry, education and energy access.  We are a Belgium registered non-profit with subsidiary companies and offices in the UK, Lisbon India, China, Singapore and a global staff of around 70. 

We have grown our revenue five times in as many years and have bold growth plans over the next decade as we seek the urgent scale up of wind and clean energy in new and existing markets. GWEC growth plans are enabled by donor grant funded projects or other collaborations, requiring careful financial management to ensure timely delivery, tight budget management and donor confidence.

This is an exciting new position for a highly motivated, organised, analytical and collaborative Financial professional with project and grant experience, with a commitment to improve systems and processes, develop a healthy compliance culture and to make a real difference in a growing organisation.

Overall the role will provide project support and technical finance expertise to our global grant funded projects and advice on donor-funded or other restricted projects, to ensure accuracy of all finance transactions related to the project and to manage all financial aspects of projects from budget preparation to project closure. This will include projects directly managed by GWEC, and projects managed by hosted collaborations.

Headline responsibilities include (please see JD for detail)  to ensure/rpovide 

1.      Complete & accurate project budgets & support financial aspects of funding bids

2.      Grant financial set up, compliance oversight and close out, including audit liaison

3.      Complete & accurate transaction processing and quality assurance 

4.      Regular project financial reporting and analysis 

5.      Project & grant cash management is monitored, reconciled and optimised on a timely basis  

6.      Project financial knowledge is disseminated and good practice is shared within Finance, Grant and Project teams & GWEC

Essentia Person Criteria:

•        Right to work in UK or EU (depending on office location)- no Visa sponsorship

•        Ability to regularly attend a GWEC office (1-2 days per week)

•         Fluency in written and spoken English

•        Part Qualified accountant or Masters degree in Accounting or Business Finance or equivalent

•        Business related degree

•        3 or more year’s post qualified work experience in project finance management and grant management

•        Experience of working on multiple projects without loss of effectiveness

•        Commitment to the work and mission of GWEC and the clean energy transition

•        Proven ability to build good working relationships with non-finance staff

•         IT minded, you are comfortable with various international Accounting Systems and advanced Excel skills (e.g. use of VLOOKUP’s, Pivot tables etc)

•         Strong analytic skills and problem-solving abilities.

A polite notice to Recruitment Agencies - we recruit directly and are not interested in your servcies. If you contact GWEC you will not be engaged with.