Capital Accounting Assistant Capex Finance Performance
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Job Location:
Huntingdon - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
15 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Capital Accounting Assistant Capex Finance Performance
Circa 32085 dependent on skills and experience
Permanent full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time
Huntingdon
Dive into a world of opportunity and join our team!
As a Capital Accounting Assistant within the Capex Finance Performance team you will play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of financial performance insight reporting and analysis across Anglian Waters multi-billion capital programme. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a keen eye for detail strong financial acumen and a proactive approach to thrive in a complex operational and regulatory environment. You will be responsible for ensuring the timely and accurate delivery of capex finance data and reporting as well as upholding robust financial controls and governance.
You will join a collaborative team of Capital Accounting Assistants supporting both the finance team and the wider business in financial reporting month-end processing budgeting forecasting and cost and performance analysis. The role champions standardisation automation efficiency and compliance with a strong focus on innovation and technology to maximise opportunities. You will also be instrumental in supporting the asset commissioning process and driving continuous improvement in health and safety standards.
Key responsibilities
- Assist with preparation of monthly management accounts ensuring accuracy and adherence to deadlines.
- Post journals accruals and prepayments accurately; review and report on capex accruals and prepayments.
- Reconcile key balance sheet accounts and investigate variances.
- Collaborate on budgeting and forecasting monitoring performance against targets and highlighting variances.
- Analyse capex costs identify trends or anomalies and provide insights to improve efficiency and support investment decisions.
- Ensure compliance with financial controls internal policies and regulatory requirements.
- Support asset commissioning and contribute to systems-based improvements (e.g. SAP/S4).
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Health & Safety maintaining high standards and compliance.
As a valued employee youll be entitled to:
- A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%
- Private healthcare for your peace of mind
- An annual bonus scheme
- The opportunity to volunteer in your local community
- 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays) increasing with service with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays
- Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)
- Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle
- Paid time off for illness both physical and mental
- Free parking at all office locations sites and leisure parks
- Excellent family-friendly policies including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay with the opportunity for shared parental leave
What does it take to be successful
- Part qualified accountant (CIMA ACCA or ACA).
- Experience in month and year end processes budgets forecasting and management accounts.
- Data and variance analysis experience.
- Very keen desire for accuracy and attention to detail.
- Excellent IT skills particularly Excel Word and SAP.
- Ability to communicate financial information effectively to non-financial managers.
- Take ownership deliver on promises and communicate clearly.
Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer which means well consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression ethnic origin nationality religion or beliefs age sexual orientation disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes and were committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.
Closing date: 11th January 2026
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Required Experience:
Junior IC
Key Skills
- Invoicing
- Accounting Tally
- Accounting & Finance
- General Ledger Accounting
- Microsoft Excel
- PMP
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Analysis
- Payroll
- Financial Recouncilation
- Financial statement
- ACCA
- CPA
- Financial Reporting
- Bookkeeping
About Company
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