Charges Accountant

The Training Brokers Ltd; Wales; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional regulatory organization in the United Kingdom seeks a Charges Accountant to develop charging schemes and support regulatory processes. This role involves collaboration with various teams to enhance service delivery, with a focus on creating proposals for public consultation. The position offers a hybrid working model and plays a critical role in ensuring the full cost-recovery of regulatory services, reflecting the organization's commitment to sustainable funding and effective resource management.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial accounting or similar role.
• Ability to develop internal and external guidance.
• Strong analytical skills for charge modelling.

Responsibilities

• Develop charging schemes to support funding.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization.
• Support the development of the regulatory service plan.

Job description

The role

This role provides an opportunity for you to be at the forefront of progressive change in the strategic resourcing and management of our regulatory processes within Natural Resources Wales, supporting the delivery of our corporate plan.

You will be part of a specialist team responsible for developing our charging schemes that raise £50m of charge income annually which represents around 20% of NRWs annual funding.

As a Charges Accountant you will work closely alongside and collaborate with existing Teams within EPP, Operations and Finance and Corporate Services, as well as external partners, supporting their work by developing new processes that support new or changing areas of work that arise from ongoing revision of our charging schemes. This will include developing internal and external guidance, as well as training for internal staff in support of these new approaches.

You will play a key role in developing future full cost-recovery charging proposals for public consultation, building a sound evidence base for charge modelling that will deliver sustainable funding for the medium to long-term. NRW's ability to charge as a statutory consultee will be focused on, as well as reviewing other regulatory areas to ensure full cost-recovery.

You will also support the development of our annual regulatory service plan that is key to delivering the standard of regulatory service we expect to deliver.

The role is suitable for hybrid working, has no line-management responsibility and will report to the Manager of the Regulatory Business Management Team, under the Regulation and Permitting department which sits within the EPP Directorate.

About us

Natural Resources Wales is responsible for the regulation of over forty regimes, from major industry to cockle fisheries. Our regulation underpins much of what we do to protect, maintain and enhance our natural resources so that people can live better and healthier lives and our wildlife can thrive. Regulation contributes to this by reducing the risk of harm to the environment, people and communities of Wales and promoting responsible behaviour that manages our natural resources in a sustainable way.