Charges Accountant

Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An environmental regulatory body in the United Kingdom is seeking a Charges Accountant to lead the development of charging schemes and support regulatory processes. This role involves collaboration with various teams and partners to ensure sustainable funding and compliance with statutory regulations. The position allows for hybrid working and does not involve line management responsibilities. Candidates should have strong skills in proposal development and guidance creation.

Qualifications

• Ability to develop and implement charging proposals for public consultation.
• Strong collaboration skills with teams across departments.
• Experience in developing guidance and training materials.

Responsibilities

• Develop charging schemes that raise income for NRW.
• Collaborate with various teams to support new processes.
• Support the regulatory service plan development.

Job description

The role

This role provides an opportunity for you to be at the forefront of progressive change in the strategic resourcing and management of our regulatory processes within Natural Resources Wales, supporting the delivery of our corporate plan.

You will be part of a specialist team responsible for developing our charging schemes that raise £50m of charge income annually which represents around 20% of NRWs annual funding.

As a Charges Accountant you will work closely alongside and collaborate with existing Teams within EPP, Operations and Finance and Corporate Services, as well as external partners, supporting their work by developing new processes that support new or changing areas of work that arise from ongoing revision of our charging schemes. This will include developing internal and external guidance, as well as training for internal staff in support of these new approaches.

You will play a key role in developing future full cost-recovery charging proposals for public consultation, building a sound evidence base for charge modelling that will deliver sustainable funding for the medium to long-term.The role will focus on NRW's ability to charge as a statutory consultee, as well as reviewing other regulatory areas to ensure full cost-recovery.

You will also support the development of our annual regulatory service plan that is key to delivering the standard of regulatory service we expect to deliver.

The role is suitable for hybrid working, has no line-management responsibility and will report to the Manager of the Regulatory Business Management Team, under the Regulation and Permitting department which sits within the EPP Directorate.

About us

Natural Resources Wales is responsible for the regulation of over forty regimes, from major industry to cockle fisheries. Our regulation underpins much of what we do to protect, maintain and enhance our natural resources so that people can live better and healthier lives and our wildlife can thrive. Regulation contributes to this by reducing the risk of harm to the environment, people and communities of Wales and promoting responsible behaviour that manages our natural resources in a sustainable way.