Project Accountant

Our client is looking for a Project Accountant to join their Accountancy team in Guildford.

Client Details

Our client, a well-known & growing business based in Guildford, is looking for a Project Accountant to join their Accountancy team.

Description

Project Accountant - Guildford

• Costing & Bidding
• Operate as finance lead on bidding activities. This involves reviewing & validating the bid costings that have been prepared by Engineering. Ensure that associated financial criteria are correctly applied (e.g. foreign currency, customer approved rates, profit margins, taxation, provisions & contingencies).
• Work with Bid manager to determine appropriate milestone payment plans to ensure most favourable cash position.
• Assist bid managers with RMC pack preparation.
• Work with Bid team to ensure compliance to the Bid Process.
• Project Control
• Regular review of project actual costs, commitments and forecasts with the Project team & project managers, in conjunction with the project schedule.
• Working closely with project managers to ensure financial objectives are met and to play a key role within the project decision-making process whilst striving to act as the "CFO" of the project.
• Regular review of overall financial project health and steer of recovery actions (e.g. cash, debtors, in-year financial trading position).
• Presentation of financial status in relevant management reviews.
• Regular review of the project risk register ensuring a strong risk management culture and financial link.
• Work across functions to resolve queries, mitigate issues and ensure project data is of the highest quality.
• Providing required management accounting project data according to the reporting schedule of the business. Includes sales, profit & cash flow quarterly forecasting.
• Management of all customer financial reporting requirements & interaction with customer's financial/reporting tools for both bids and projects.
• Support to any required internal/external project-related audits.
• Taking an active role in identifying and delivering improvements to processes within finance and the business.
• Ad-hoc requests from team leader.

Profile

A successful applicant will have experience with the above & be available on short notice, ideally studying AAT/ACCA/CIMA.

Job Offer

Salary £45,000 - £55,000