Job description
Overview:
The Project Accountant will play a key role in helping the business maximise results. Excellent communication skills and experience in adding value, challenging results, and working with the management team are crucial.Responsibilities:
Energy Resourcing are currently recruiting for an ambitious Project Accountant to join their client's London project team permanently.
The Project Accountant will play a key role in helping the business maximise results. Excellent communication skills and experience in adding value, challenging results, and working with the management team are crucial.
Project Initiation
- Accountable for the financial implications of the set up and maintenance of projects in the business system in accordance with policies, pricing schedules, customer details, calendars, payment plans.
- Interprets the contract terms and conditions and ensures commercial terms are built into project set ups.
- Ensures projects are financially closed.
- Leads/Supports Audits.
Reporting and Analysis
- Ensures processes in place to enable accurate revenue recognition.
- Regularly reviews margins, WIP, debtor and cash flow.
- Ensures intercompany payables or receivables reconciled with counterpart and ensure prompt payments.
- Link between Accounts Payable and project for coding invoices, ensuring that missing/expected invoices are accrued for/accounted timely.
- Create and validate forecast/budget for chargeable hours, sell/cost rates, resulting margin and ensure target is reasonable.
- Produces and analyses trend and variance report as needed.
- Gathers project accruals and provision information as needed.
- Owns the accuracy of financial data as reported in monthly WPR’s through collaboration with project team.
- Work closely with project controls and finance analysts to produce monthly reports and estimates.
- Works closely with project operations, controls and billing coordinators to improve project administration processes and effectiveness.
- University graduate or above in Finance, Quantity Surveying, Law, Business Studies or other appropriate discipline.
- A confident and high energy individual with a desire to make a difference and offer suggestions for improvement & recommendations.
- Proactive approach to problem solving.
- Ability to liaise with multiple functions to gather information.
- Maintain confidentiality at all times.
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
- Excellent analytical skills and a strong eye for the detail.
- Previous experience of the industry/sector is advantageous.
Desirable:
- Membership of a professional institution (e.g. RICS, ACCA/CIMA).
Energy Resourcing
https://energyresourcing.com/
Perth, Australia
Ryan Hill
$1 to $5 million (USD)
1 to 50 Employees
Company - Private
HR Consulting
1996