Project Accountant

We Do Group; Chester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Flexible 4 days in office / 1 day home

28 days holiday

On-site parking

Pension

Job summary

We Do Group is recruiting a newly created Project Accountant to join a fast-growing international business in the Offshore Wind & Renewable Energy sector. This is a brilliant opportunity to join a business at an exciting stage of growth, with the chance to build their project finance and reporting processes from the ground up, and shape how things are done.

You’ll be responsible for project-level reporting, budgeting, forecasting and P&L, WIP and revenue recognition, and you’ll partner with

Qualifications

• Experience in a project-based business with project accounting focus.
• Experience with WIP and revenue recognition is desirable.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills.

Responsibilities

• Build project-level reporting across the business.
• Prepare budget vs actuals and forecast-to-completion reports.
• Produce monthly project P&Ls with commercial commentary.
• Handle WIP calculations and project-level revenue recognition.
• Monitor project costs, margins, variances and commercial risks.
• Support bids, tenders, pricing and project cost models.
• Collaborate with Project Managers across the UK and internationally.
• Drive process improvements and reporting enhancements.

Skills

Project accounting

Financial modelling

Budgeting

Forecasting

Reporting

Business partnering

Stakeholder management

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Chester | 4 Days Office / 1 Day Home | Permanent | International Business

Are you a qualified accountant who enjoys getting close to projects, operations and the commercial side of a business?

Do you like building things rather than simply inheriting someone else’s processes?

We Do Group are partnering with a fast-growing international business operating within the Offshore Wind & Renewable Energy sector to recruit a newly created Project Accountant.

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a business at an exciting stage of growth, with the chance to build their project finance and reporting processes from the ground up.

About This Business

The business operates across the global offshore wind industry, delivering complex project work for clients throughout the lifecycle of offshore wind projects.

They have entities across the UK, US, Poland and Taiwan, with projects spanning multiple international locations. The finance function is developing alongside the wider business, creating plenty of opportunity for someone to come in, make improvements and genuinely shape how things are done.

The Role!

This isn't a role where you're walking into perfectly established processes and simply keeping them ticking over.

You'll be responsible for helping build the project finance infrastructure from scratch, working closely with the Group Financial Controller, Project Managers and the commercial/bid teams.

There’s a really good blend of project accounting, commercial finance, business partnering, reporting and process improvement.

You'll be responsible for:

• Building project-level reporting across the business
• Budget vs actuals and forecast-to-completion reporting
• Producing monthly project P&Ls with meaningful commercial commentary
• WIP calculations and project-level revenue recognition
• Monitoring project costs, margins, variances and commercial risks
• Purchase order controls and subcontractor cost tracking
• Project close-out analysis and feeding learnings into future projects
• Partnering with Project Managers across the UK and internationally
• Challenging and supporting operational teams around costs, resources and scope changes
• Supporting bids, tenders, pricing and project cost models
• Pressure-testing margins and commercial assumptions
• Improving systems, reporting and processes as the business continues to grow

About You

We're looking for someone who enjoys being more than just the person producing the numbers.

You'll need to be comfortable working directly with Project Managers and operational teams, understanding what's happening on projects and translating that into meaningful financial information.

Equally, you'll need the confidence to challenge when something doesn't look right.

You'll be joining a growing environment, so we're looking for someone who likes creating structure, improving processes and figuring things out rather than needing everything to already be in place.

Wish List

• Experience working within a project-based business
• Ideally experience across Renewable Energy, Offshore Wind, Marine, Construction or Engineering
• Strong project accounting experience
• WIP and revenue recognition knowledge
• Budgeting, forecasting and project P&L experience
• Strong business partnering skills
• Comfortable challenging non-finance stakeholders
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills
• Experience building or improving reporting processes
• Exposure to bids, tenders or pricing would be a big advantage
• International or multi-currency experience would be useful
• Proactive, commercially minded and comfortable working in a growing environment

Why Join?

• Discretionary bonus – Group performance scheme currently being developed
• 4 days in the office / 1 day working from home, with some flexibility
• 28 days holiday + bank holidays
• On-site parking
• Statutory pension
• Brand-new role you can genuinely shape
• Opportunity to build project finance processes from the ground up
• Work closely with the Group Financial Controller and senior leadership
• International exposure across a growing global business
• Commercial exposure alongside traditional project accounting
• Get involved with bids, pricing and decision-making
• Lots of process and systems improvement work