Investment Accounting Manager

Pontoon; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Investment Accounting Manager to oversee a project accounting team. The role involves managing financial performance, reporting, and stakeholder engagement. Ideal candidates are qualified accountants with strong financial reporting and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in reporting financial information and budgeting.
• Experience managing stakeholders and working across multiple teams.
• Proactive self-starter with strong results orientation.

Responsibilities

• Manage a project accounting team of 4-6 Investment Accountants.
• Provide accurate reporting of project actuals, forecasts, and budgets.
• Lead on monthly accounting cycles and manage stakeholder meetings.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Collaboration

Results Orientation

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

Tools

MS Excel

SAP

Job description

Job title: Investment Accounting Manager

Location: Warwick Hybrid

Duration: 12 months initially

Adecco is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

The role:

As an Investment Accounting Manager, you will be managing a project accounting team of 4-6 Investment Accountants, you'll support the team to provide comprehensive financial support, drive the financial performance and maximise regulatory returns of the investment portfolio across the business.

Responsibilities:

You'll be the contact for the Portfolio Management Teams, ensuring that project portfolio forecasts are always thorough, comprehensive, and fully considered to incorporate accurate risk, and is consistent with the programme.

You'll provide accurate reporting of Project actuals, forecast and budget costs as well as undertake trend, variance analysis and critical evaluation to drive improved project performance.

Managing a project accounting team of 4-6 Investment Accountants, you'll support the team to provide comprehensive financial support, drive the financial performance and maximise regulatory returns of the ET investment portfolio across the business.

You will lead on monthly accounting cycles for the team, manage stakeholder meetings and deliverables, provide insight into performance and partner with the business area to drive value and change.

Supporting Senior Projects Manager and Project Directors, you'll help them understand and interpret their portfolios, it's regulatory outcomes and finance performance.

Leading on the implementation of standardised UK Business performance, you'll ensure fit for purpose financial processes, forecasts, and reports.

As a critical trusted partner, you'll utilise your financial expertise and project knowledge to provide support to the wider business. Continuous improvement and developing processes are key to the role, as we work in an evolving environment.

Requirements:

Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with post qualified experience.

You have significant experience in reporting financial information, as well as planning, forecasting, and budgeting across a variety of projects.

You've interacted and managed a broad range of stakeholders and have experience working across multiple teams to deliver objectives and commercial decisions with relevant financial information.

you're comfortable leading and working as part of a virtual team and are prepared to travel to sites on an adhoc basis.

Strong experience in MS Excel and SAP is key to the role.

Good understanding of core financial processes.

Proactive self-starter with ability to manage own workload, to time and desired levels of quality.

Pragmatic can adapt quickly to a changing environment and can adapt approaches and utilise and align skills to different customer groups.

Strong stakeholder management, influencing and collaboration skills.

Strong results orientation.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.