Project Accountant

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

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Financial Support role in Birmingham, England. This position involves providing financial support to Electricity Transmission projects, requiring strong organizational and communication skills. Candidates with an accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, or CIMA and experience in international corporate settings are encouraged to apply. Responsibilities include building financial reports and ensuring adherence to accounting policies.

Qualifications

• Experience in large, international corporate settings.
• Strong ownership in implementing new financial processes.
• Ability to influence behaviors in financial processes.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial reports for ET portfolio.
• Set up projects to account for costs accurately.
• Provide accurate month-end reporting.
• Run forecasting and consolidation processes.
• Ensure compliance with accounting policies.

Skills

Major accounting systems

Budgeting and forecasting

Financial performance reporting

Strong organizational skills

Communication skills

Excel and data manipulation

Education

ACA, ACCA, CIMA or similar

Job description

Overview

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

Application and contact

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

Please be advised if you\'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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