Project Accountant

📋 Description

• Leadership Support – cultivate relationships and enhance collaboration with program/framework leadership teams, as well as operations and commercial (Commercial assistants & QS) teams.

• Reporting and Analysis – create and maintain reports to facilitate business decisions and risk management, focusing on key areas such as P&L, cash flow, and order book.

• Financial Reviews – provide challenge and support as part of the Senior Leadership team during project evaluations and monthly and quarterly financial assessments.

• Month End – ensure the attainment of month-end deadlines while demonstrating accurate accounting records and robust internal controls.

• Budgeting and Forecasting – ensure timely and precise completion of budgets and forecasts, incorporating comprehensive trend and KPI analysis, including the management of financial risk and opportunity registers.

• Cash management – coordinate project cash flow forecasts alongside monthly WIP and debt reviews to enhance or sustain working capital.

• Rate Management – conduct periodic evaluations of internal CTE rates and external sales rates in accordance with commercial agreements.

• Financial Modelling & Bids – collaborate closely with key business partners to develop and sustain essential financial and scenario-based models that support strategic business decisions.

• Wider Support – oversee or coordinate end-to-end O2C, P2P, and R2R activities within the area to ensure the embedding of best practices.

• Adhoc activities to assist in securing work or achieving the area’s strategic and operational goals.

⛳️ Requirements

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) or in the final year of study.

• Dedicated team player.

• Skilled at managing various stakeholders.

• Enthusiastic and driven.

• Open to innovative ideas and new working methods.

• Adaptable under pressure.

• Strong communication skills.

• Proficiency in SAP is highly preferred.

• Analytical thinker with the capacity to distill detailed and complex information into clear and coherent management insights.

• Must be diligent and proactive in resolving issues.

• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships within the finance team and across the organization.

• Eager to learn and demonstrate resilience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary

• A wide range of family-friendly policies

• 8% matched pension contributions

• Private healthcare

• Life assurance

• 26 days of holiday

• 2 wellbeing days

• 1 volunteering day

• Personal and professional development