Job Role: Investment/Project Accountant
Industry: Utilities
Location: Leeds
Duration: 6 months initially
Pay Rate: £350 per day via Umbrella
The role:
We are seeking a skilled Investment Accountant to provide financial support for a number of Electricity Transmission (ET) projects. This role involves proactive management of information, forecasting, and financial reporting on ET projects.
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 eff...