Job Title: Team Lead Senior Project Accountant
Location: Surrey – Guildford. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Circa £60,000 commensurate with skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
1. Support, develop and coach a team, ensuring collaborative working relationships with stakeholders and consistently ensure skills and experience are matched with business demands
2. Production of timely insights, analysis and business intelligence to drive performance. Ensure synchronisation between evolving business performance and forecasting, proactively identifying and managing risks and opportunities
3. Ensure timely working capital cycle for projects and supporting decision makers in delivering strong project financial performance and production of quarterly forecasts and Annual Budgets in conjunction with the Finance Business Partners
4. Support Delivery team in forecasting financial estimates of costs to deliver projects and manage risks and opportunities, highlighting key information to the relevant FBPs
5. Deliver accurate month end management reporting, on time, including Project reporting outputs (Summary Status Report and Contract Status Reports); Monthly management reporting with expert analysis and insights analysing in-year financial performance; Balance sheet review parks; Working Capital Reporting; Orderbook Reporting
6. Work alongside the relevant FBPs, provide a key bid support capability, to plan, coordinate and model financial inputs, ensuring quality inputs are provided to the FBPs / bid team
7. Operate robust and effective financial controls in line with Financial Control Framework and Finance Policies manual, collaborating with the Project Finance Process Owners, Finance Control CC and Governance CC. Support external and internal audit as required
8. Contribute towards identifying and delivering improvements to processes within Project Finance
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
1. Qualified/Part Qualified member professional accounting body (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
2. Experience of Project Finance and strong understanding of financial forecasting and reporting processes
3. Knowledge of relevant accounting standards (IFRS / GAAP), incl. IFRS15 revenue recognition
4. Recognises best practice in applying financial controls
5. Experience of using MRPs or ERPs (e.g. SAP, Infor LN, Oracle) and financial reporting, forecasting and analytical tools (e.g. SAP BPC / SAC, Cognos, Tableau)
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
Closing Date: 3rd February 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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