Project Accountant

CMA Recruitment Group; England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

CMA Recruitment Group is seeking an experienced Interim Project Accountant for a fast-growing utilities business undergoing a critical transitional period. This role involves managing month-end processes, project-level financial analysis, and requires expertise in project accounting and advanced Excel skills. The position offers hybrid working arrangements, statutory pension contributions, and 23 paid days off plus bank holidays.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Statutory pension contribution

23 Days Paid annual leave + bank holidays

Qualifications

• Background in project accounting, construction, utilities or infrastructure ideal.
• Able to handle high volumes of data, spot anomalies, and articulate insights clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own month-end process and deliver high-quality reconciliation work.
• Analyse performance across a diverse portfolio of short and long-term contracts.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

Project accounting

Data analysis

Job description

CMA is supporting a fast–growing, PE–backed utilities business who are experiencing a critical transitional period and require an experienced Project Accountant to support their finance team.

What will the Interim Project Accountant role involve?

• Own month–end process and deliver high–quality reconciliation work.
• Extract and validate project–level financials from QuickBooks, Excel, and cloud–based materials and project systems.
• Clean, collate, and prepare core data for transaction–readiness
• Provide project–level accounting insight: revenue recognition, WIP, accruals, deferred income.
• Analyse performance across a diverse portfolio of short and long–term contracts.

Suitable Candidate for the interim Project Accountant vacancy:

• Background in project accounting construction, utilities or infrastructure ideal.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Able to handle high volumes of data, spot anomalies, and articulate insights clearly.

Additional benefits and information for the role interim Project Accountant

• Hybrid working.
• Statutory pension contribution.
• 23 Days Paid annual leave + bank holidays.

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