Low Carbon Contracts Company

Controller

• Oversee all development of accounting policies and processes linked to settlements of the business though leadership and oversight of Scheme Settlements team (Scheme Settlements and Scheme Accounting).
• Responsible for enabling team to make continuous improvements to processes.
• Responsible for overseeing control framework for Scheme Settlements side of the team.
• Responsible for managing a growing team, ensuring team is structured to allow uninterrupted delivery of tasks, continuous improvement and efficient growth.
• Provide leadership to the team demonstrating company values and encouraging others to do the same.
• Identify and monitor risks impacting the Settlements side of the team ensuring controls and mitigations in place.
• Deputise and stand-in for the Head of Finance and Procurement on occasion as required.
• Provide support to the Finance Manager to ensure appropriate funding in place for any difference payments not covered by levy and included in the annual LCCC delegation letter where necessary.
• Manage chart of accounts for Settlements side of the team.
• To have oversight of reports for Board/DENSZ relating to settlements scheme activity and ARAC.
• Oversee LCCC financial operations of existing schemes (Contracts for Difference, Capacity Market, RAB and Green Hydrogen) maintaining teams relationship with EMRS ensuring controls in place to mitigate risks for LCCC/ESC ensuring that settlements are accurately reflected within the financial statements.
• Foster an environment of continuous improvement seeking to automate where possible whilst retaining and improving control framework.
• Oversee improvements to Finance documentation, policies and processes impacting new and existing schemes when required.

Lead Finance Manager, Settlements Controller

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Oversee all processes, transactions and reporting linked to operational costs of the business though leadership and oversight of Finance Operations team (Management Accounting and Finance Business Partners) ensuring the business have timely information to make decisions and effectively manage resource.
• Responsible for enabling team to make continuous improvements to processes.
• Responsible for overseeing control framework for Finance Operations side of the team.
• Responsible for managing a growing team, ensuring team is structured to allow uninterrupted delivery of tasks, continuous improvement and efficient growth.
• Foster a high performing team environment with effective monitoring of team performance.
• Responsible for linking Management Accounting and Business Partnering teams.
• Responsible for structuring and leading the team to provide the business and budget holders with timely, accurate financial information to enable them to make decisions and helping them manage their resourcing appropriately.
• Responsible for team that guides business through funding cycles and processes across all Government and levies.
• Process efficiencies – Oversee process efficiencies through system integration and/or configuration to replace manual processes. This should be done in collaboration with Financial Controller and Finance Systems Manager.
• Identify and monitor risks impacting the Finance Operations side of the team ensuring controls and mitigations in place.
• Oversee HMRC statutory obligations ensuring that LCCC compliant with VAT, PAYE and any other tax obligations.
• Responsible for creating and updating Finance Reporting letter(s).

Lead Finance Manager – Finance Operations

Manager

• Lead the development and delivery of the operational plan for the quantitative development function
• Oversee the design, testing and deployment of complex forecasting and analytical models, ensuring models meet evolving regulatory and policy expectations
• Champion technical excellence and continuous improvement in modelling practices
• Define and embed modelling standards, processes and governance frameworks as we approach 10/20 models in production over the coming years
• Coach and develop both managers and senior technical contributors to build capability and resilience
• Support the Head of Analytics and Process Manager in shaping the long-term development roadmap
• Form part of the leadership team of the Analytics team within LCCC, improving team engagement and ways of working
• Collaborate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including policy, legal, operations, external regulators and DESNZ; ensuring models are robust, transparent and aligned to business needs
• Act as a key liaison between the quantitative development function and senior stakeholders across the organisation
• Represent the quantitative development function through internal knowledge sharing forums and industry events

Senior Quantitative Development Manager

Accountant

• Take ownership of the monthly Management Accounts postings, primarily Accruals, Prepayments and any Reclasses required
• Perform Balance Sheet Reconciliations, to understand any differences and how any reconciling items will be resolved.
• Assist the Management Accountant (MA) in submission of the Trial Balance to DESNZ (Government Department)
• Work with the wider FP&A Team to monitor variances, analyse drivers and causes, and assist with supporting commentary, to allow optimum use of company funds
• Assist in the preparation of the monthly summaries in Power BI for Operational Costs, Capital Costs and specific views per scheme, for presentation to the CFO
• Work with MA to prepare and send External Reporting Packs to DESNZ and Internal packs to departments
• Ensure non-Levy and Capital funding requests are prepared accurately, submitted and settled by DESNZ, to ensure work carried out is billed on a regular basis
• Using curiosity, work with the FP&A Area, and wider Finance & Procurement Team, to identify opportunities to streamline processes
• Own the Purchase Order, Purchase Order Request and Supplier Management in SAGE
• Assist on the year-end process and any Interim and Ful Year audit requests
• Provide flexible support to the wider Finance and Procurement teams on any ad-hoc requirements or urgent projects.
• Where required, provide peer support and coaching to less experienced team members

Assistant Management Accountant, 18 Month Fixed Term Contract

Business Analyst

• Contribute to the evolution of the product roadmap
• Develop appropriate documentation (e.g. detailed process models and other suitable artefacts covering functional/non functional specifications) to ensure Tech-Hub have the right information as early as possible to build the foundations for efficient delivery.
• Play a key role at scrum ceremonies, supporting reviews and retros and owning and driving requirements through refinements.
• Build and maintain a strong working relationship with various stakeholders (LCCC Tech-Hub, Internal Users / Stakeholders, UI/UX resource)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including internal stakeholders, delivery teams, third-party suppliers and industry bodies.
• Serve as a critical link between technical and non-technical teams, facilitating alignment and mutual understanding while minimising delays and misunderstandings
• Facilitate workshops, teach-ins and presentations to gather insights and communicate findings.
• Work closely with stakeholders to iteratively validate requirements and ensure alignment with evolving needs and expectations.
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing sessions, eliciting feedback and comprehensively documenting any bugs.
• Identify opportunities to enhance business processes through innovation or optimisation.
• Contribute to strategic planning by providing analytical insights and solution recommendations.
• Evaluate the impact, risks and value of proposed changes or new initiatives.
• Maintain a continuous improvement mindset with our internal delivery partner (LCCC’s tech-hub)

Product Business Analyst

Project Manager

• Support the business with the definition and implementation of change initiatives through project management guidance including scoping, goal setting, timeline and resource planning, risk and issue management, budgeting and handling dependencies.
• Provide project management expertise across the business aligned with methodology and tools driven centrally by the Change team.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to build change impact into planning and design in a structured way, and feed change outcomes back into the Operating Model and Process Architecture for knowledge management.
• Work with the business development team to turn impact assessments into business cases/programme initiation documents for new net zero schemes.
• Ensure that key initiatives are captured and prioritised within the LCCC Change Portfolio.
• Maintain an up-to-date view of the interdependencies, project plans, risks and issues across the key initiatives, and reporting on this to the Change Committee.
• Promote continuous improvement, supporting the Senior Head of Strategy & Change and other Heads to action opportunities across the business, including lessons learnt from change projects.
• Develop strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Full-stack Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable software solutions, ensuring alignment with Principals and Architects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, QA, and DevOps, to deliver high-quality features.
• Lead code reviews and technical discussions, and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Lead complex coding tasks; ensure code quality
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Estimate work; lead delivery of features from the roadmap.
• Solve ambiguous problems with scalable solutions.