Investment Accountant

Investment Accountant Contract Length: 4 months Location: Hybrid - Warwick (3 days per week on site) Pay Rate: £350 per day (via Umbrella) Are you a proactive and detail-driven finance professional with experience supporting capital or project-based environments? This four-month contract offers the chance to play a key role within a major UK infrastructure programme, partnering closely with project teams to deliver high-quality financial insight and controls. The Role As an Investment Accountant, you'll provide robust financial support across a portfolio of Electricity Transmission projects. Your focus will be on ensuring strong financial reporting, accurate forecasting, and effective project cost management throughout the delivery lifecycle. Key Responsibilities • Build, maintain, and improve project-level financial reports across the ET 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. • 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. About You We're looking for someone who brings strong technical accounting skills, confidence working with project stakeholders, and the ability to produce consistently accurate financial outputs in a fast-moving environment. Key Skills & Experience • Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent). • Experience with large accounting systems, budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance reporting. • Background supporting projects, capital investment, or infrastructure environments is highly beneficial. • Strong organisational skills with the ability to work independently and within wider teams. • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management capabilities. • Ability to influence both finance and non-finance colleagues positively. • Advanced Excel and data-handling skills. Please note: Due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours, unfortunately, your application has not been successful on this occasion. However, we may retain your details for any future suitable vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon 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. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you. We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.