Analyst, Project Financial Controller, Project Controller Group, HCaaS - FTC

ACCA Careers; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

Job description

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Human Capital as a Service (HCaaS):

Our HCaaS business sits within our Human Capital practice in Technology & Transformation - the world's leading people and HR transformation business. As part of a practice that brings leading-edge tooling, research and analytics expertise together with deep industry knowledge, you'll help to deliver innovative and complex transformation programmes for our clients.

Project Controller Group (PCG):

As part of the HCaaS business, the Project Controller Group performs a critical role, embedding financial controls and risk management to support successful delivery of our largest and most complex projects right across Deloitte Consulting. We are trusted partners to client engagement leaders, providing timely end-to-end project accounting services and financial management information to enable better data-led decision-making. In doing so, we strengthen the interlock between project delivery teams and finance.

Our services are in demand, and as a result, we are looking for part-qualified/fully-qualified accountants, with experience in business partnering, project accounting, and financial management. After completing our comprehensive induction programme, you'll be given your own portfolio of projects to manage, providing you with the opportunity to partner with and advise some of the most senior leaders in our business. In your new role, you'll take ownership of financial management, champion operational excellence and deliver outstanding quality.

Connect to your opportunity

The Project Controller Group implement best in class commercial and financial practices to improve transparency, minimise risks, and deliver key insights to senior stakeholders to support effective decision-making. We are involved in all stages of the project lifecycle, from supporting bids for new work, to proactively supporting live projects with regular financial reporting and analysis right through to project completion and payment of services undertaken.

As a Project Financial Controller, you will have responsibility for:

• Establishing a single source of truth for engagement financial KPIs.
• Leading a consistent, optimised approach to setting up engagements in SAP and managing financial risks.
• End-to-end ownership of engagement financials, enabling project teams to focus on client delivery.
• Business partnering with our most senior engagement leaders.
• Providing commercial expertise to price future engagements while managing financial risks.
• Executing leading practices to consistently and efficiently deliver high quality, value-add information and outputs.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

To be successful as a Project Financial Controller, you will possess:

• The ability to communicate financial concepts in plain English.
• A proactive approach to your work.
• Strong Excel skills, numerical reasoning, and attention to detail.
• Great organizational skills in order to manage competing deadlines and prioritise requests from multiple stakeholders.
• A flexible approach to respond to changing business priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• A keenness to take on responsibility and work autonomously.

Additional desirable experience include:

• Full or part-qualification in an accountancy qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience of an accounting system (e.g. SAP).
• Experience in a finance or accounting environment.
• A working knowledge of IFRS 15.

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in Belfast with hybrid working. At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing.