Project Accountant
Guildford, Surrey
Benefits: comprehensive blue chip benefits package
Reference: 7802
Added on Jul 23, 2010
About You
A qualified accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA) with Project or Revenue Accounting experience, strong financial modelling skills, and the ability to drive change. You will need to work effectively with the project team, challenging assumptions, providing support, financial control, reporting and assurance to the project whilst interacting with Senior Delivery, Finance, and Operations managers within the business. The role requires strong interpersonal skills and the ability to implement and support robust financial reporting and forecasting models. It also requires a person who will engage in day to day operational activities.
About The Role
This role directly supports the project team and reports into the Commercial Manager and into the Finance function.
Main responsibilities will include:
• Derivation of overall project financial information from project data to include:
* Review of Project Top Down Sales Forecasts.
* Production of Delivery Review financial slides.
* Support of financial systems including monitoring of backlog, and Working capital forecasting.
• Review, challenge and revision of existing project finance artefacts.
• Refining and improving project finance performance baselines (covering cost, revenue, EVM reporting) and incorporation of these new initiatives into business as usual reporting metrics.
• Drive change across the project team to improve the collation of required information and their understanding of performance measures.
• Providing input into wider company delivery reporting project.
Things you should know
Comprehensive blue chip benefits package
Commutable from Guildford, Woking, Weybridge, Godalming, Chertsey, Addlestone, Farnham, Farnborough, Camberley, Frimley, Haslemere
Contract type
Permanent
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