Investment Accountant

Pontoon; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading finance consultancy in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Investment Accountant to provide financial support to projects while ensuring accurate financial reporting and tracking. The ideal candidate will be a fully qualified accountant with strong organizational and communication skills. This hybrid role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to significant infrastructure projects.

Qualifications

• Experience of budgeting and forecasting in a corporate setting.
• Ability to work under own initiative and within wider team.
• Good levels of Excel and data manipulation skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure suitable financial reports are built and maintained.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure thorough project cost tracking.
• Provide accurate month-end reporting to project managers.

Skills

Financial performance reporting

Strong communication skills

Organisational skills

Stakeholder management

Data management

Education

Fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, etc.)

Tools

Major accounting systems

Job description

Overview

Job title: Investment Accountant

Location: Warwick/Hybrid

Duration: 6 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: We\'re looking for passionate Investment Accountants to join our Capital Accounting Business Process team. The role involves providing financial support to various projects, focusing on proactively managing information, forecasts, and financial reporting for projects. This includes ensuring accurate financial tracking and analysis to support project management and decision-making, ultimately contributing to the successful delivery of initiatives.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• 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.
• Business Capabilities: Commerciality, Customer, Data management, Stakeholder management.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Strong ownership to support implementation of new financial processes through to successful conclusion.
• Strong communication skills, including the 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.

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.