Our Finance Europe & Africa team, is looking for a Financial Controller in Portugal.
As Financial Controller, you will conduct various tasks. Among other things, your missions will be:

1/ FINANCIAL PROCEDURES AND STATUTORY COMPLIANCE

• Coordinating financial information between local business team, external accounting team and supervise the work of the latter.
• Processing invoices and payments.
• Ensuring proper controls of accounting operations (Invoicing of Electricity generated, monitoring of receivables, payments, etc.)
• Enhancing the accuracy of the annual financial statements and ensure that reported results comply with local GAAPs.
• Participating at the external audits for statutory or group purposes.
• Giving inputs and assisting in implementing internal control.

2/ BUDGET AND REPORTING

• Assisting in the budgets and forecasts preparation, including the monthly follow-up and update of the construction budget and cash position.
• Analyzing variances of actuals versus forecast and budgets.
• Preparation of the monthly reporting and cash flow forecast, and semi-annual consolidation packages of the country (including P&L, CAPEX, cash flow and forecasts) and ensure that reported results comply with Group procedures.

3/ TAXES

• Ensuring proper control of local tax returns prepared by local external accountants.
• Assisting in the review of tax aspects in financial models.CORPORATE FINANCE AND BANK RELATIONSHIP
• Preparing debt drawdowns during construction.
• Preparing debt covenants calculation and mandatory operational and financial reports.
• Maintaining relationship with the bank agent;
• Leading distributions

4/ SUPPORT TO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

• Early involvement in the projects with Development, Legal and Financing teams: reviewing the business plans with a focus on the tax analysis, participating in the financial close reviewing of the EPC, O&M contracts, preparing the equity proof;
• Support on Tax structuring and efficiency at project level;
• Reviewing the Share Purchase Agreements and the Share Holders Agreements during Joint Ventures;
• Supporting the development teams in due diligences, integration in Neoen during M&As.

You hold a degree in finance and have a 2 to 5 years’ experience in audit and/or financial roles, ideally in a multinational environment. Experience in the energy industry is a plus.

You are reliable, autonomous, rigorous and analytical, with a good business sense and proven communication skills.
You fluently speak Portuguese and English (written and spoken).
You know the Portuguese Gaap standards, have a good knowledge of Portuguese taxes and reporting/budget.
Beyond competences we are looking for someone who is proactive, reliable, autonomous, rigorous and analytical, with a good business sense and proven communication skills and solution-oriented, and eager to learn with an appetite to work in a multicultural environment.

Créée en 2008, Neoen est l’un des principaux producteurs indépendants d’énergie exclusivement renouvelable. Son savoir-faire dans le solaire, l’éolien terrestre et le stockage lui permet de participer activement à la transition énergétique des pays dans lesquels Neoen produit une énergie verte, locale et compétitive. Multipliées par six au cours des six dernières années, ses capacités en opération ou en construction atteignent aujourd’hui 8,7 GW. Société en forte croissance, Neoen a pour ambition d’atteindre 10 GW en opération ou construction courant 2025.Présente sur 4 continents, Neoen compte parmi ses principaux actifs le plus puissant parc solaire de France (Cestas, 300 MWc), le plus grand parc éolien de Finlande (Mutkalampi, 404 MW), l’une des centrales solaires les plus compétitives au monde au Mexique (El Llano, 375 MWc), ainsi que deux des plus grandes centrales de stockage à grande échelle au monde, toutes deux basées en Australie (Hornsdale Power Reserve, 150 MW / 193,5 MWh et Victorian Big Battery 300 MW / 450 MWh).Audace, intégrité, engagement et esprit de corps : nos valeurs guident nos actions et nos relations avec nos partenaires, clients et populations locales. Ces valeurs sont le socle de notre identité d’entreprise et les repères intangibles de notre comportement au quotidien.