Investment Accountant

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We're looking for passionate Investment Accountants to join our Capital Accounting Business Process team. The role involves providing financial support to various projects, focusing on proactively managing information, forecasts, and financial reporting for projects. This includes ensuring accurate financial tracking and analysis to support project management and decision-making, ultimately contributing to the successful delivery of initiatives.

This role is based out of our Warwick office, and we'd hope to see you at least two days per week but you're welcome to be in the office more often if that would work best for you. We're happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that you feel could help to make this job work for you!

What You'll DoEnsure suitable financial reports are built and maintained, detailing spend by project for the Electricity Transmission (ET) / Strategic Infrastructure (SI) portfolios.

Ensure that following approvals projects are set up in a timely manner to accurately account for project costs in accordance with the approved ET/SI investment proposal papers.

Collaborate with stakeholders including finance business partners and project teams to ensure that actual and forecast project costs are thorough, comprehensive and reflect project progress.

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 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 timetables.

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.

What You'll Have Fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA etc).

Experience of major accounting systems, budgeting and forecasting, financial performance reporting and engagement with business management, preferably in a large, international corporate setting.

Business Capabilities – Commerciality / Customer / Data management / Stakeholder management.

Strong organisational skills.

Strong ownership to support implementation of the new financial processes through to successful conclusion.

Strong communication skills including ability to clearly articulate what is required by whom and by when.

Ability to positively influence behaviours of all involved in the electricity projects financial processes, both finance and non-finance.

Ability to work well under own initiative and within wider team.

Good levels of Excel and data manipulation skills.

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