The Role
We are seeking a Project Accountant to join our expanding finance function. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining analytical thinking with hands-on project involvement, supporting finance, engineering and project teams to ensure strong financial performance across key programmes.
Key Responsibilities
1. Partner with project managers to provide financial insights, ensuring accurate tracking of project progress and performance.
2. Monitor project expenditure against budgets and report variances in a timely manner.
3. Oversee revenue recognition and assess overall project profitability.
4. Conduct cost analysis on direct and project-related costs to identify savings and efficiency opportunities.
5. Perform margin analysis for engineering and manufacturing projects.
6. Prepare and compute cost rate decks.
7. Support bid activity and provide financial input for commercial reviews.
8. Assist with funding submissions and manage financial reporting for grant programmes.
9. Analyse and segment inventory at project level, ensuring accurate valuation.
10. Support capitalisation of development costs and assist with R&D tax computations.
11. Contribute to the preparation of annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
12. Improve financial systems and processes related to project accounting and reporting.
13. Ensure compliance with internal financial control...