Project / Cost Accountant

Project / Cost Accountant

Reading / hybrid

Gleeson Recruitment are delighted to be supporting a high profile, international engineering client for a broad project, cost accounting role with significant interaction with key stakeholders throughout the business. This is a superb and unique opportunity based in Reading.

A highly welcoming business with modern offices, free parking and easy reach of all public transport routes.

Duties:

• Assisting the Head of Finance with the production and reporting of monthly, quarterly and annual Management Account Packs as well as statutory audit information.
• Managing the technical finance requirements of the accounting system.
• Assisting the Head of Finance with the maintenance of projects and contracts in order to ensure the integrity of revenue and margin reporting.
• Assisting with the forward-looking financial processes such as forecasting, budgeting, and long-term planning.
• Preparing and submitting monthly, quarterly, and annual management accounts.
• Maintaining the month-end reconciliations and posting journals as per the closing task list (including fixed assets, inventory costs, journals, accruals, sales and bookings report, un-billed reconciliations, quarterly contract revenue report and completion of schedules in Hyperion).
• Preparing schedules for annual audit.
• Running the month-end revenue recognition routines every Friday and also through the month to check performance to date.
• Technical management of the accounting system, including rebuild of TB, pull through of opening balances for new financial year, maintaining GL accounts, finalisation of batches, managing integrations and clearing errors, maintaining time periods, hours and expenses interfacing, closing projects, process delivered contracts, and troubleshooting other system queries which have a finance element.
• Involvement in project budget review cycles and maintaining the system with the correct budgets.
• Maintain capex tracker of actual and forecast spend vs budget.
• Assisting with preparation of monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual Budgets, and Long Term Plans.
• Assisting with any other ad hoc financial duties as requested by the GM or Financial Controller.

The ideal candidate:

• Qualified or Finalist or Qualified by Experience.
• Experience in using an ERP system in a manufacturing or engineering environment (preferred).
• Experience of Long Term Contract Accounting and Inventory an advantage.
• Intermediate/Advanced level user of Excel.
• Good attention to detail and happy to deal with the technical aspects of an ERP system.
• Ability to communicate with staff from all levels within the business and with the US sites also.

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