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New Temporary Project Accountant position with the possibility of going Permanent for a company based in Guildford!
Client Details
New Temporary Project Accountant position with the possibility of going Permanent for a company based in Guildford!
Description
- Operate as finance lead on bidding activities. This involves reviewing & validating the bid costings that have been prepared by Engineering. Ensure that associated financial criteria are correctly applied (e.g. foreign currency, customer approved rates, profit margins, taxation, provisions & contingencies).
- Work with Bid manager to determine appropriate milestone payment plans to ensure most favourable cash position.
- Regular review of project actual costs, commitments and forecasts with the Project team & project managers, in conjunction with the project schedule.
- Working closely with project managers to ensure financial objectives are met and to play a key role within the project decision making process whilst striving to act as the "CFO" of the project.
- Regular review of overall financial project health and steer of recovery actions (e.g. cash, debtors, in year financial trading position).
- Presentation of financial status in relevant management reviews.
- Regular review of the project risk register ensuring a strong risk management culture and financial link.
- Work across functions to resolve queries, mitigate issues and ensure project data is of the highest quality.
- Providing required management accounting project data according to the reporting schedule of the business. Includes sales, profit & cash flow quarterly forecasting.
- Management of all customer financial reporting requirements & interaction with customer's financial / reporting tools for both bids and projects.
- Support to any required internal / external project related audits.
- Taking an active role in identifying and delivering improvements to processes within finance and the business.
- Ad-hoc requests from team leader.
Profile
- Proven and demonstrable experience in a relevant role.
- Experience within a project related environment covering both costing, bidding and delivery is essential.
- Experience within a dynamic and fast paced organisation.
- Positive attitude and strong work ethic
- Excellent organisational, analytical and team working skills.
- Flexible and able to multi-task; managing a number of different bids and projects simultaneously and being able to adapt to changing priorities.
- Solid understanding of finance & applicable project accounting standards.
- Excellent inter-personal & communication skills - both written and verbal.
- Able to develop good working relationships with key people in the business.
- High level of concentration and attention to detail with ability to sense check.
- May be working towards an accountancy degree
Job Offer
Project Accountant
- Salary £48k-£58k
- Hybrid Working
- Temporary Assignment with the possibility of going permanent
- Holiday
- Pension
