Project Accounting Lead: Build Reliable Reporting & Controls

Butler Rose Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Butler Rose Ltd. is seeking a Project Accounting Manager in West London / Berkshire. The role is hands-on, focusing on understanding current processes, improving data quality, strengthening controls and developing reliable reporting in a complex project-led environment.

The successful candidate will investigate and analyze before moving into process improvement and implementation, with a 6-month duration and on-site work 2–3 days per week.

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial finance or project accounting.
• Strong data analysis and Excel skills.
• Experience with ERP systems; NetSuite advantageous.
• Investigative approach to understand processes before solving.
• Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Investigate existing project finance processes to understand how work is captured, costed, transferred and reported.
• Review data quality, manual processes and system-related issues that affect reporting accuracy.
• Improve job costing, completeness, cut-off and revenue recognition processes.
• Identify gaps in controls, reporting and reconciliations.
• Work with information from multiple systems and manual sources to create clearer, more reliable reporting.
• Support the development of practical processes and controls where current arrangements are limited or inconsistent.
• Review intercompany issues across project-led activities and support more accurate reporting.
• Partner with Finance, Commercial and operational stakeholders to implement sustainable improvements.

Skills

Data analysis

Excel proficiency

Revenue recognition

Process improvement

Investigative mindset

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Butler Rose Ltd. is seeking a Project Accounting Manager in West London / Berkshire. The role is hands-on, focusing on understanding current processes, improving data quality, strengthening controls and developing reliable reporting in a complex project-led environment.

The successful candidate will investigate and analyze before moving into process improvement and implementation, with a 6-month duration and on-site work 2–3 days per week.