Co - Finance Leader

**Reporting to**: Country Manager / Funtional Report Financial Controller LATAM & CFO LATAM.
- **Department**: Finance.
- **Job Location**: Bogota, Colombia.
- **Travel Required**: Minimal.

**Company Overview**:
Mainstream Renewable Power is the leading independent developer of utility-scale wind and solar power plants. The company is focused on delivering a high quality portfolio of wind and solar assets across high-growth markets in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

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Summary of the Role: *

The role involves taking responsibility for financial control, accounting, Treasury, statutary & Compliance for Colombia Mainstream and associated companies. The position will be reporting to the Country manager and functional reporting to the Financial Controler Latam and the CFO Latam.

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What you will do?*
- Manage Colombia Mainstream plataform, local Development companies, and Overseas Holding Companies GLs, P&Ls and Balance Sheets.
- Meet monthly close deadlines to support production of external and management accounts.
- Assist in the integration of acquired companies or projects joining the group, the Pre-Financial Close of projects, plus any divestment of projects or companies sold.
- Implement Group financial controls to ensure the Country is compliant, is leveraging Group best practice, and prevent losses through technology malfunction, fraud, theft, or human error.
- Ensure that all companies are up to date with IFRS or local accounting guidelines whichever takes precedent.
- Provide advice to other areas of the business on Technical Accounting matters, produce Technical Accounting Papers on transactions etc for Group Finance Dublin when required.
- Lead the localization implementation for Dynamics 365 under the Colombia law. Ensure that all issues raised are logged, tracked, testing and resolved with the local software support company.
- Assist FP&A Manager to ensure that the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow for relevant companies are accurately reported to the various stakeholders, including Local & Group Senior Management, the Board, Group Finance, JV partners, etc., in accordance with the reporting timelines.
- Maintain appropriate reconciliations to support above.
- Responsible for the accurate capitalization of overhead and direct costs to development projects. Allocation of overhead to projects, and recharge of third-party costs and services provided to joint ventures on a timely and accurate basis, where relevant.
- Ensure Foreign Exchange revaluations are compliant with Group practice
- Maintain strong relationships with Chile & Dublin Group Finance and other local finance teams (internal and Third Party).
- Contract Management of Outsourced Accounting Services that are used by companies you are responsible for.
- Ensure that the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and Treasury functions for the companies under your control are functioning efficiently and effectively.
- Monitor the AP/AR balances and provide relevant KPIs for the Local Senior Management Team.
- Develop and maintain the relationship with banks and other financial institutions for the companies under your control.
- Responsibility for managing the Colombia companies’ annual and interim audits & Support of Group audit as required.
- Production of year-end statutory accounts for agreed entities as signed by Auditors, and Annual Report as sent to Shareholders.
- Supervise the tax function and ensure that all importation duties are processed and accounted for correctly.
- Report on other Corporate Compliance and Risks as required within the existing Group framework
- Contribute to the commercial review of potential business opportunities as directed by the Country Manager & CFO.

**What we require?**
- A high standard of commitment with Safety, assuming safety as a priority value in all its task and responsibilities.
- (mandatory) A high calibre Colombia qualified accountant (8+ years)
- Strong organisation, communication, interpersonal and management skills required.
- High levels of energy and motivation, with a track record of delivery.
- Confident self-starter with the ability to act on own initiative, multi-task and meet tight deadlines.
- Experience in accounting for multi-jurisdiction/currency transactions.
- Experience in the Energy Sector preferred.
- Strong Excel and systems skills
- Technical accounting skills required and able to produce statutory accounts
- Experience of Microsoft Dynamics or another high-end accounting software package desirable.
- Advance English required.

**What we offer?**

We offer you the opportunity to work in a dynamic and entrepreneurial organisation, in a growing market in a fast paced industry. You will receive a very competitive total benefits package including an excellent base salary, bonus scheme and share options