Project Accountant

Adecco; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Financial Support professional in Birmingham. This role involves ensuring accurate financial reporting for Electricity Transmission projects, engaging with project managers, and implementing financial processes effectively. The successful candidate will have a strong accounting background (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) and proven skills in stakeholder management, reporting, and excel data manipulation. This position offers a chance to work in a dynamic corporate environment overseeing significant project budgets.

Qualifications

• Experience with budgeting and forecasting in a large corporate setting.
• Ability to influence behaviours in financial processes.
• Experience working under own initiative and within a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support to ET projects and manage financial reporting.
• Build and maintain financial reports detailing project spend.
• Ensure compliance with accounting policies and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Financial performance reporting

Strong communication skills

Organisational skills

Stakeholder management

Excel and data manipulation skills

Education

Accounting qualification - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or similar

Tools

Major accounting systems

Job description

The role:

To provide financial support to a number of ET Projects and proactively support the management information, forecast and financial reporting on Electricity Transmission projects.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure suitable financial reports are built and maintained, detailing spend by project for the ET portfolio.
• Ensure that following approvals projects are set up in a timely manner to accurately account for project costs in accordance with the approved ET investment proposal papers.
• Ensure that project costs are recognised in the books based on value of work done principles, where possible provided directly from our partners.
• Provide accurate, timely and consistent month end reporting in accordance with Finance timetables to project managers and to programme delivery managers.
• Run forecast, consolidation, and review processes to provide robust monthly forecasts for in-flight and unsanctioned projects, accurately allocated, and including risks & opportunities.
• Support processes to ensure that approved forecasts and annual budgets and business plans are input into local financial systems in an efficient and accurate way, in accordance with financial time-tables.
• Ensure that the regional financial controls in operation are efficient and effective and in conjunction with Shared Services teams ensure compliance with accounting policies and regulatory requirements.
• Work in partnership with UK Shared Services accounting teams, ensuring the accuracy, completeness and appropriateness of all management accounts and reporting statements.

Requirements:

• Experience of major accounting systems, budgeting and forecasting, financial performance reporting and engagement with business management, preferably in a large, international corporate setting.
• Accounting qualification - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or similar.
• Business Capabilities - Commerciality/Customer/Data management/ Stakeholder management.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Strong ownership to support implementation of the new financial processes through to successful conclusion.
• Strong communication skills including ability to clearly articulate what is required by whom and by when.
• Ability to positively influence behaviours of all involved in the electricity projects financial processes, both finance and non-finance.
• Ability to work well under own initiative and within wider team.
• Good levels of Excel and data manipulation skills.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

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