Investment Accountant - IT&D

At National Grid, our commitment to a cleaner, greener energy future is powered by the dedication and ingenuity of our people. Join our team as an Investment Accountant IT&D and be a part of something bigger—where your unique skills and passions can make a real difference. Together, we are superpowered. 

We’re looking for passionate Investment Accountant to join our NGED CFO team, supporting our IT & Digital (IT&D) function to deliver our regulatory outcomes. 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.

 
This role is based out of our Warwick office with travel required to offices across our NGED sites.  We’d hope to see you at least two days per week but you’re welcome to be in the office more often if that would work best for you. We’re happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that you feel could help to make this job work for you! 

What You'll Do:

• Ensure suitable financial reports are built and maintained, detailing spend by project for the IT&D stakeholders and for Investment Reviews.
• 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 and accounted for in a timely manner. 
• Support with 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 consolidated in accordance with financial reporting schedule. 
• Ensuring financial controls in operation are efficient and effective and in conjunction with wider Finance teams ensure compliance with accounting policies and regulatory requirements.

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 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.

More Information:

This role closes on 16 July 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.

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