SAP Project Accountant

NES Group Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering staffing provider is seeking a SAP Project Accountant in London to support hands-on SAP projects and ensure accurate reconciliations. The role demands experience in IFRS reporting, complex reconciliations, and prior SAP implementation support. Candidates will be involved in documenting processes and supporting testing activities. This is a 12-month contract with right to work in the UK required.

Qualifications

• Experience preparing or supporting IFRS reporting and month-end close activities in a corporate or group finance environment.
• Experience performing complex reconciliations across different systems, ledgers and data sources.
• Prior experience supporting SAP implementation projects in a finance capacity.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on support to SAP Projects team across multiple workstreams.
• Perform reconciliations between source data, sub-ledgers, general ledger, and reporting outputs.
• Support testing cycles, including test execution, evidence capture, defect logging.

Skills

IFRS reporting

Complex reconciliations

SAP implementation

Testing capability

Documentation standards

Job description

Overview

Job Title: SAP Project Accountant
(Oil and Gas Operator Client)

UK RIGHT TO WORK REQUIRED

Location: London

Contract Length: 12 Months

Purpose of Role

• Provide hands-on support SAP Projects team across multiple workstreams.
• The role focuses on data and ledger reconciliations, contributing to testing activities to help ensure accurate, controlled, and timely delivery of SAP related changes and outputs.

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence

• Support SAP implementation activities by assisting with process understanding, documentation, and translation of reporting requirements into practical deliverables
• Perform reconciliations between source data, sub-ledgers, general ledger, and reporting outputs
• Support testing cycles, including test execution, evidence capture, defect logging, analysis, tracking
• Assist with data validation activities (master data checks, migration reconciliation, completeness/accuracy checks)
• Produce clear working papers and audit-ready documentation for reconciliations, testing, and control activities

Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc.

• Experience preparing or supporting IFRS reporting and month-end close activities in a corporate or group finance environment
• Experience performing complex reconciliations across different systems, ledgers and data sources.
• Prior experience supporting SAP implementation projects in a finance capacity
• Testing capability in a system implementation setting
• Strong documentation standards and ability to produce clear working papers suitable for review

About NES Fircroft

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients