Job Role: Investment/Project Accountant
Industry: Utilities
Location: Warwick
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 papers.
* 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 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.
Skills and Experience Required:
* 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.
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