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Investment Accountant - NGED
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Investment Accountant - NGED
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 - NGED 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 a passionate Investment Accountant, to provide robust financial support across the South Wales portfolio within National Grid Electricity Distribution business. Your focus will be on ensuring strong financial reporting, accurate forecasting, and effective project cost management throughout the delivery lifecycle.
This role is based out of our Cardiff 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. The role will require a reasonable amount of travel to locations across South Wales.
If you are passionate about making a difference in the energy sector and ready to take on this exciting challenge, we want to hear from you!
What You’ll Do:
- Build, maintain, and improve project level financial reports across the NGED portfolio.
- Ensure newly approved projects are set up promptly and accurately to enable proper cost tracking.
- Recognise project costs in line with Value of Work Done (VOWD) principles such as Plant, PO and GRNI Accruals.
- Deliver timely and accurate month-end reporting aligned to finance deadlines.
- Run and review monthly forecasts for in flight and unsanctioned projects, including risks and opportunities.
- Support the annual budget and business planning cycle, ensuring data is correctly input into finance systems.
- Uphold financial controls and ensure compliance with accounting policies and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with Finance Business Partners, Shared Services, and project teams to ensure complete, accurate management accounts.
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The responsibilities outlined above are not exhaustive, the post-holder may be required to undertake additional duties as reasonably requested in line with business needs.
What You'll Have:
- Fully qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), with strong technical accounting expertise and pride in delivering accurate, high quality financial outputs in a fast-moving environment.
- Confident working with project teams and senior business stakeholders, building trusted relationships and adding value through insight.
- Experienced in using large accounting systems, with strong capability in budgeting, forecasting and financial performance reporting.
- Experience supporting projects, capital investment or infrastructure programmes – or strong motivation to apply your skills in this space.
- Highly organised, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a wider team.
- A clear, credible communicator who can influence both finance and non finance stakeholders effectively.
- Advanced Excel and data handling skills, turning complex data into meaningful insight.
- Flexible to travel for in person meetings with business stakeholders when required.
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What You'll Get:
- Up to £57,000– dependent on capability.
- 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 30 July 2026 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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