Financial Accountant

Warwick, hybrid

c£55,000 DOE + bens

National Gas is securing Britain’s energy.  We are responsible for transporting gas to power stations, major industries, storage facilities, and more than half a million businesses and 24 million homes through nearly 5,000 miles of pipes across Britain. National Gas is also proud to lead the way in transforming the energy network for a clean energy future.

The Financial Accountant (Entity Analyst) position focuses on ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and compliance of financial information across assigned legal entities.  This includes owning balance sheet quality, performing detailed reconciliations and analysis, maintaining strong financial controls, and supporting timely and reliable statutory and management reporting.  The role underpins effective governance, reduces financial risk, and provides insights that enable informed business decision‑making.

Join us, and help be the energy behind the change.

About the role:

1. Balance Sheet Ownership & Integrity:

• Own the balance sheet for assigned entities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to accounting policies.
• Perform detailed account reconciliations, variance analysis, and periodic reviews to identify risks, errors, or unusual postings.
• Drive timely resolution of reconciling items and ensure all balances are supported by appropriate audit ready documentation through Blackline scoping/administration.
• Manage shared service balance sheet integrity team.

• Organise quarterly balance sheet reviews between Group FC, Head of Financial reporting and SMEs. 

2. Financial Controls & Compliance:

• Maintain a strong control environment by ensuring compliance internal controls, and company financial governance frameworks.
• Prepare Quarterly Analytical Reviews.
• Support internal and external audit processes by preparing schedules, providing documentation, and addressing audit requests.
• Maintain robust documentation for reconciliations, controls, processes, and accounting judgments.

3. Entity‑Level Financial Reporting:

• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities for assigned legal entities.
• Prepare and review journal entries, balance sheet movements, and entity-level financial statements.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant statutory, regulatory, and management reporting.

4. Analytical Insight & Decision Support:

• Provide clear balance sheet insights, commentary, and risk assessments to finance business partners and stakeholders.
• Monitor and manage budget/forecast upload.
• Support strategic finance initiatives by supplying accurate and meaningful financial analysis.

5. Cross‑Functional Collaboration:

• Partner with Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and Shared Services to resolve issues and improve reporting accuracy and efficiency.
• Collaborate with FBPs to understand business drivers affecting the balance sheet and entity results.
• Assist in Regulatory Reporting Packs.

7. Risk Management:

• Identify, assess, and escalate financial risks related to balance sheet exposures, accounting treatments, or process weaknesses.
• Support implementation of mitigation actions and strengthen controls to reduce risk.

About you:

You’re a fully qualified accountant (ACA/ ICAEW/ ICAS, ACCA, CIMA) – this would be an ideal opportunity for someone technically trained and qualified in a large Accountancy Practice to move in house.  You have strong understanding of accounting principles (IFRS and FRS102), balance sheet governance, reconciliations, and financial control frameworks; and familiarity with month‑end close processes, journal entries, and financial reporting cycles.  You have solid understanding of internal controls, risk management, and audit requirements and working knowledge of statutory and management reporting, including entity-level financial statements.

In person, you're a team player with a natural collaborative approach to work across Finance Controllership, FP&A, Shared Services, and audit teams.  You're pro-active, diligent and ambitious, with strong problem solving and analytical skills. 

In return we can offer you a fantastic working environment, career progression, support from a talented finance team, and mentorship and development opportunities.

What we can offer you:

• Salary: c£55,000 DOE
• Bonus of up to 6%
• 26 days’ holiday plus 8 statutory holidays – plus option to buy 5 additional days,
• Double-match pension - for every £1 you put in, we add £2 (max company contribution 12%),
• Opt-In flexible benefit scheme, including salary sacrifice private healthcare, dental insurance, technology plans and more,
• Financial protection with 10x salary death in service and financial support if you're unable to work due to long term illness or injury,
• Excellent family friendly provisions - maternity/paternity/adoption/surrogacy/ shared parental leave,
• Employee assistance programme offering free confidential professional counselling 24/7,
• Financial support to cover the cost of relevant professional membership subscriptions
• Appreciate scheme and retail offers.

Other 'nice to knows':

• Hybrid working – 2-3 days in our Warwick
• Career progression and ongoing professional training and development
• Free gym and exercise classes onsite at our Warwick office, sports clubs to join
• Canteen and coffee shop onsite
• Free parking

About us:

Gas is an essential part of a secure energy supply in Britain and will continue to play a vital role in the energy system for decades to come. More than ever, we need the security that gas brings to keep the lights on, businesses running, and homes warm. National Gas provides that security.

Gas provides the energy security to support renewable electricity generation, and we are developing our infrastructure to transport hydrogen and carbon dioxide across the country. We are Britain’s national gas network, providing secure energy to power the country, achieve net zero and maintain our industrial competitiveness.

At National Gas, we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities that we serve. We celebrate the different experiences our colleagues bring and encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply. To that end we want to support you during the interview process, please advise your recruitment partner if you require any reasonable adjustments.

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