Project Accountant

Babcock International Group; Dunfermline; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK nuclear industry is seeking a Project Accountant to enhance lifecycle reporting accuracy within a Nuclear Defence Support program. This full-time role includes financial management, project reporting, and offers hybrid working. Candidates should be CIMA Qualified with experience in project controls.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Good understanding of project controls and team interaction.
• Experience managing cost-related outputs in complex programs.
• Experience in nuclear or other large-scale sectors.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial elements for projects and provide reporting.
• Manage invoicing and payment tracking.
• Control project baseline budgets and cost risk management.

Skills

Project Controls

Financial Reporting

Cost Management

Education

CIMA Qualified Accountant

ACA or ACCA

Tools

SAP

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Job Title: Project Accountant
Location: Warrington, Bristol, Rosyth or Clyde + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Project Accountant, at one of our Warrington, Bristol, Rosyth or Clyde sites.

The role

As a Project Accountant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be an integral member of the team in a dynamic role responsible for improving the accuracy and visibility of lifecycle reporting for Cavendish and its stakeholders within a Nuclear Defence Support programme.

Day-to-day, you’ll be leading the financial elements for the projects within the programme and also working with the central finance function to provide financial reporting, covering margins, tracking forecasting, cashflow, producing project reports, such as management accounts, budget change, costs, margin, accruals and journals.

• EAC review & consolidation at project level – including down to net profit
• Oversight of monthly supply chain cost accruals/VOWD and revenue recognition process
• Creating accurate financial forecasts based on project status and historical data
• Manage the invoicing process for the project and track payments from customers
• Develop/implement and maintain the Project Baseline Budgets including Control Account Plans/Responsibility Assignment Matrix and WBS Dictionary (SOW).
• Management and control of cost risk budget and drawdown and input into the risk management process.
• Responsible for the monitor, control and validation of project’s accruals and commitments and the control of resource and financial forecast data.
• Management and control of financial change management on the project and assurance of alignment with the business/contractual requirements.
• Provision of internal and external financial performance & cost reports including earned value and variation analysis.

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with two-three days in the office/onsite and three-two days working from home.

Essential experience of the Project Accountant

• Good understanding of project controls function and ability to interact well with cost engineers, planners, Quantity Surveyor, Project Controls Manager
• Experience of working in a team delivering large complex programmes, preferably nuclear and other sectors such as Oil and Gas, Construction.
• Experience managing cost-related output from project controls teams within a project
• SAP experience is highly desirable

Qualifications for the Project Accountant

• CIMA Qualified Accountant with demonstrable experience post qualified
• ACA or ACCA considered

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at.

What We Offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of