Vice President Group Accounting, Finance and Control

Overview

About Yellow Door Energy

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Group accounting, financial control, and consolidation across a multi-entity, multi-currency, and multi-jurisdiction business.
• Ensure strong financial stewardship, timely close, and high-quality financial reporting across Yellow Door Energy’s regional operations.
• Act as the primary finance counterpart for external auditors and oversee statutory, tax, and regulatory reporting requirements across relevant jurisdictions.
• Oversee Group treasury activities, including liquidity planning, cash management, banking relationships, FX exposure, and treasury risk.
• Lead Group planning, forecasting, budgeting, and performance reporting processes, providing clear insight to support decision-making by the CFO and senior leadership team.
• Partner closely with the CFO and senior stakeholders on governance, business performance, and strategic finance matters.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing finance team, ensuring strong accountability, capability development, and succession planning.
• Drive process discipline, standardisation, and continuous improvement across finance processes, systems, and ways of working.

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Professionally qualified accountant, such as ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA, or equivalent.
• Minimum 12+ years of post-qualification experience in senior finance leadership roles spanning Group accounting, consolidation, treasury, audit coordination, and financial reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in multi-entity, multi-currency, and multi-jurisdiction Group consolidation.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, including IFRS and complex accounting treatments.
• Proven experience managing financial close, Group reporting, statutory reporting, and external audit processes.
• Strong treasury oversight experience, including liquidity planning, cash forecasting, bank relationship management, FX exposure, and intercompany funding structures.
• Experience leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and executive reporting processes.
• Experience operating across geographically dispersed entities and stakeholder groups.
• Advanced ERP systems experience, ideally including NetSuite or similar enterprise finance platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership capability, with fluency in written and spoken English.

Preferred

• Master’s degree or MBA in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Experience in renewable energy, infrastructure, project finance, or asset-heavy multi-country businesses.
• Experience supporting lender reporting, covenant monitoring, and shareholder reporting.
• Exposure to treasury policy development, hedging strategies, and cash pooling structures.
• Experience working in the Middle East and Africa region.
• Experience supporting organisational scale-up and finance operating model evolution.

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