Investment Accountant
Posted 1 day ago by Pontoon
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Warwick, Warwickshire, UK
Summary: The Investment Accountant role is focused on providing comprehensive financial support to project portfolios within the business. This position involves driving financial performance and maximizing regulatory returns as part of a project team. The accountant will work closely with project management to ensure accurate forecasting and reporting, while also supporting the Project Manager in understanding financial outcomes. The role requires significant experience in financial reporting and stakeholder management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with the Project Management Team to ensure that monthly project forecasts are thorough and reflective of risk.
- Provide a review of financial performance to project teams and senior management, undertaking variance analysis.
- Act as a trusted partner for the business, utilizing financial expertise to support wider business objectives.
- Support the Project Manager in interpreting portfolio regulatory outcomes and financial performance.
- Ensure accuracy of actual costs incurred and adherence to an effective control environment.
- Prepare and submit expenditure into SAP in accordance with the central month-end accounting timetable.
- Develop and implement standardized financial processes to forecast and report on project performance.
Key Skills:
- Significant experience of reporting financial information.
- Ability to influence and work as part of a team.
- Proven experience of planning, forecasting, and budgeting across various projects.
- Confident in stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration.
- Experience in supporting commercial decisions with relevant financial information.
- Experience of SAP S4 HANA and MS Office is advantageous.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Warwick
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job title: Investment Accountant
Location: Warwick/Hybrid
Duration: 6 months
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The role:
The main purpose of this role is to provide comprehensive financial support to project portfolios across the business. As a key member of a project team, you will drive the financial performance and maximise regulatory returns of the investment portfolio.
Responsibilities:
Work with the Project Management Team to ensure that monthly project forecasts are thorough, comprehensive and fully considered to incorporate reflective risk.
Provide a review of financial performance to project teams and senior management undertaking variance analysis to help drive forwards improved project performance.
Be recognised as a critical trusted partner for the business utilising your financial expertise and project knowledge to provide support to the wider business.
Support the Project Manager in interpreting and understanding their portfolio - its regulatory outcomes and financial performance.
Ensure accuracy of actual costs incurred and ensure an effective control environment is adhered to.
Be responsible for the preparation and submission of expenditure into SAP in accordance with the central month end accounting timetable while ensuring supporting information is comprehensive and clear.
Pro-actively develop and implement standardised, fit for purpose financial processes to forecast and report on project performance.
Requirements:
Possess significant experience of reporting financial information.
Ability to influence and work as part of a team.
Proven experience of planning, forecasting and budgeting across a variety of projects.
Confident in stakeholder management and working across teams to deliver objectives.
Experience in supporting commercial decisions with relevant financial information.
Experience of SAP S4 HANA and MS Office would be an advantage.
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
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