Investment Accounting Manager - ET

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 National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) investment portfolio across the business.

This role is based out of our Warwick office, and 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

• 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, its 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.

What You\’ll Have

• 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.

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 £67,000 dependent on experience.

Plus:

• Up to 15% Annual Bonus (based on personal and company performance)
• 28 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days in addition
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days every year.
• A generous contributory pension scheme – we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions.
• Life Insurance 10 x base salary.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
• Access to apps which support health, fitness, and wellbeing.

Further Information

This is a hybrid working role from our Warwick office with circa 2 days in the office. The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 13 Mar 25, with interviews due to take place w/c 17 Mar 25 onwards. 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.

About us

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

Inclusion and Diversity is not just about race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. It is about our employees who wake up every day to serve our 20 million customers. At National Grid, we aim to create an environment where everyone is welcomed for who they are and where our differences are not only accepted but are celebrated. We understand the value that a diverse team can add to our organisation and that is why we model inclusive behaviour starting with senior leadership. National Grid utilises the insights of our employees that come from all different cultures, backgrounds, and beliefs to better serve our customers and communities who are in the forefront of everything we do. #J-18808-Ljbffr