Summary: The Investment Accountant role focuses on providing financial support for Electricity Transmission projects, emphasizing proactive management of financial information, forecasting, and reporting. The position requires collaboration with project managers and shared services teams to ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance with accounting policies. The role is initially for a duration of 6 months and involves maintaining financial controls and processes. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting and project cost recognition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure suitable financial reports are built and maintained, detailing spend by project for the ET portfolio
• Ensure that following approvals projects are set up in a timely manner to accurately account for project costs in accordance with the approved ET investment proposal paper's
• Ensure that project costs are recognised in the books based on value of work done principles, where possible provided directly from our partners
• Provide accurate, timely and consistent month end reporting in accordance with Finance timetables to project managers and to programme delivery managers
• Run forecast, consolidation and review processes to provide robust monthly forecasts for in-flight and unsanctioned projects, accurately allocated, and including risks & opportunities
• Support processes to ensure that approved forecasts and annual budgets and business plans are input into local financial systems in an efficient and accurate way, in accordance with financial time-tables
• Ensure that the regional financial controls in operation are efficient and effective and in conjunction with Shared Services teams ensure compliance with accounting policies and regulatory requirements.
• Work in partnership with UK Shared Services accounting teams, ensuring the accuracy, completeness and appropriateness of all management accounts and reporting statements.

Key Skills:

• Experience with major accounting systems, budgeting and forecasting, financial performance reporting, and business management engagement, preferably in a large, international corporate setting.
• Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or similar).
• Strong organizational skills and ownership to support the implementation of new financial processes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate requirements and deadlines.
• Ability to positively influence the behaviors of all involved in the financial processes of electricity projects, both finance and non-finance.
• Ability to work well independently and within a wider team.
• Proficiency in Excel and data manipulation.

Salary (Rate): £350

City: Warwick

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other