Capital Projects Investment Accountant

National Grid; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Capital Projects Investment Accountant to manage financial information for capital projects. This role involves collaborating with project teams, ensuring accurate financial tracking, and reporting. The ideal candidate is a fully qualified accountant with experience in major accounting systems and strong organizational skills. The position offers a salary up to £57,000, including bonuses and flexible benefits.

Benefits

Bonus based on performance

Contributory pension scheme with double matching

Flexible benefits including share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience of budgeting and forecasting in a corporate setting.
• Ability to work across high volume projects.
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure financial reports detail spend by project for transmission portfolios.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure comprehensive project cost analyses.
• Provide timely and accurate month-end reporting.

Skills

Fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA etc)

Experience of major accounting systems

Strong organizational skills

Good levels of Excel and data manipulation skills

Education

Fully Qualified Accountant

Job description

At National Grid, we're driven by a shared purpose: to deliver a cleaner, greener energy future. Our people are at the heart of this mission-bringing passion, expertise, and innovation to everything we do.

We're currently inviting expressions of interest from individuals who are excited by the opportunity to join our Capital Accounting Business Process team as Capital Projects Investment Accountant. If you're someone who thrives on providing financial insight, enjoys working collaboratively across projects, and wants to make a tangible impact on the energy transition, we'd love to hear from you.

In this role, you'll support a range of capital projects by managing financial information, forecasts, and reporting. Your work will be key to ensuring accurate financial tracking and analysis, helping project teams make informed decisions and deliver successful outcomes.

The role is based in our Warwick office, with an expectation of being onsite at least two days per week. We're open to discussing flexible working arrangements to help make this opportunity work for you.

Interested? Let us know by submitting your expression interest — we're looking forward to discovering how your skills and ambitions align with our journey.

What You'll Do:

• Ensure suitable financial reports are built and maintained, detailing spend by project for the Electricity Transmission (ET), Asset Operations (AO) and 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/AO/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 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.

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.
• Experience of working across a high volume projects.
• 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.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you're excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don't match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What You’ll Get:

Up to £57,000 dependent on experience.

As well as your base salary you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.

You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

Further Information:

This role closes on 12 December at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary. Interviews will take place across December and January.

We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid's recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

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