Management Accountant

Working at Argent Energy is an opportunity to develop, to grow and a place to optimally develop your career. We offer a varied working environment where you can grow both personally and professionally. Argent Energy is a waste-based biodiesel producer with three operational locations in Scotland, England and the Netherlands. With the production of biofuel, Argent Energy wants to make a direct contribution to the global fight against climate change! We set ourselves the goal of expanding our organizational structure with short and direct lines (inter)nationally. To achieve this, we want to expand our team in the Finance department with a role for a:

Management Accountant (FP&A) | full time

About the job

The main purpose of this job is to produce insightful financial analysis of business performance that can be used to make timely interventions or support commercial decisions. Working as part of a team, this role will contribute to the production of consolidated reports and regular forecasts of expected outcomes for the group. The role will play a part in the annual budgeting process, collating data from business partners to create a budget that supports the business goals and long-term strategy. In addition to driving recurring activities, this role will support modelling of business cases of multiple growth initiatives, as well as supporting implementing the execution of these initiatives in the daily routines.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Working with assigned business partners to develop an understanding of departmental goals, then translating these into financial targets and budgets.
  
• Building the annual budget for nominated departments and securing buy-in from key stakeholders.
• Producing regular reforecasts using business knowledge of current performance trends.
• Gathering data for the production of longer-term forecasting.
• Generating standardised management reports that provide insightful performance analysis in a timely manner.
• Assist with the preparation of presentations in support of board and shareholder meetings, leadership meetings and various strategic committees of the company.
• Carrying out financial analysis to investigate deviations from target performance, working with the business partners to initiate timely interventions
• Gaining a deep understanding of the cost levers underpinning financial performance and sharing this with business partners to initiate improvements where possible.
• Developing skills to utilise the ERP system and other supporting tools to automate as much reporting as possible, freeing up more time for analysis.
• Modelling business cases based on input from colleagues with technical and commercial responsibilities, providing well documented transparent input assumptions and output results.
• Meeting with business partners on a regular basis to build successful relationships, resulting in better business knowledge and increased commercial acumen.
• Collaborating with other team members to maintain a high performing finance function.
• Seeking opportunities to continually develop skills and management accounting expertise.

About us

Argent Energy is a waste-based biodiesel producer with a vision to help decarbonise transport worldwide. Argent has 3 operational locations in Europe; Motherwell (Scotland), Stanlow (England) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). At Argent we turn waste oils into low carbon fuel which significantly contributes to reducing the CO2 emissions of transport. We believe in using waste materials only and continuously search for new waste to be turned into higher value products. We invest in people and their development as well as R&D to drive innovation in products, technologies and operational excellence. We are highly entrepreneurial and are constantly acting on new opportunities.

Argent Energy is an expanding organisation and a leading waste based biodiesel producer with a vision to decarbonise transport globally. As part of the Swire Group Argent Energy has the backing and ambitions to strengthen its sustainability performance and be best in class. John Swire & Sons Ltd. stems from a family business founded in 1816, which has grown in 200 years into a global company with various participations in aviation, maritime, food, trading and industry.

About you

To be successful in this position you should recognize yourself in the following points:

• Qualified or part-qualified in a recognised accountancy qualification
• An expectation to continue studying (if not fully qualified)
• Management accounting experience gained in a process manufacturing industry e.g. chemicals or oils (desirable)
• Experience of working with business partners in an engineering or production management role (desirable)
• Previous use of ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle
• Experience of using alternative data warehousing or reporting tools such as Hyperion, Power BI or others
• Use of all Microsoft Office packages with strong Excel skills
• Good communication skills – able to interpret complex financial data and explain it simply.
• Evidence of initiative – self-starter, developing new ways of reporting or analysing data.
• Analytical skills – comfortable working with large amounts of data from multiple sources.
• Interpersonal skills – able to form successful working relationships.
• Reporting skills – produce quality analysis or output that is meaningful to recipients.
• Ability to operate calmly under pressure.

What we offer

• Opportunity to be part of a dynamic and highly motivating Finance team.
• Permanent fulltime role based at our facility in Amsterdam with the option to work from home.
• Good primary and secondary employment conditions and an attractive pension scheme.
  
• A bonus scheme based on stated business results (max 10%).
• Working to an sustainable future with 350 passioned colleagues and lots of room for personal development.

Next steps

Interested? Send us your resume and motivation letter in English today!

To respect the GDPR regulations, we cannot process your personal data without permission. That is why we strongly recommend that you apply directly through our work-at site. Applications by e-mail will not be taken into consideration in this context.

Any questions? Contact Richard Witte (HR Manager). Richard can be reached by phone at +31650677408.