1. Project Accountant - Bury
2. A private equity backed business offering hybrid working
About Our Client
This role is part of a close knit finance team working for a fast growing, private equity backed business who provide support to the construction industry with a turnover of circa £60million.You will be joining the business at an exciting period and will have excellent opportunities to grow and develop with the business.
Job Description
Project Accountant duties include:
3. Hold responsibility for the accurate accounting of revenues and costs of sale across all the Projects and Service areas of the business
4. Gain a full understanding of the new Project-based software, ProScope, and work closely with the commercial and operational areas of the business to ensure that project costs and margin are properly recorded, analysed and understood
5. Reconciliation of customer retention balances and liaison with credit control and commercial team members where deviation from contractual agreement or risk is identified
6. Provide analysis in relation to the above on project costs-to-complete and under/overspends and meet periodically with the Projects team to review performance against plan
7. Support the Services business with improvements to simPRO (Services software) and Netsuite integration, accounting of revenues/cost of sales and operational/profitability reporting
8. Support with the timely and accurate preparation of information for monthly management accounts and any other supporting information as required
9. Balance sheet reconciliation and control of operational revenue and cost of sales (including accrued and deferred income, WIP and retentions) as well as for other overhead control accounts
10. Working in tandem with the commercial and operational areas of the business, ensure that the sales and margin forecasts are accurately maintained
11. Help to build, report and monitor business KPIs in order to assist an understanding of the order pipeline and associated drivers of performance including future revenues, margins and resource needs
12. Support the business with analysis for budgets and financial forecasts on a periodic basis
13. Help to further develop and implement additional improvements to processes within ProScope and understand the touch-points between ProScope and the business ERP system, NetSuite, and ensure that the integrity of data is maintained
The Successful Applicant
The successful Project Accountant candidate will:
14. Have a proven track record within a similar role
15. Be part qualified with ACA / ACCA / CIMA or qualified by experience
16. Be able to work to tight deadlines
17. Have excellent attention to detail
18. Be an effective communicator (written and verbal)
19. Be able to work alone or as part of a team
20. Be proficient in MS Office, particularly MS Excel
What's on Offer
A salary up to £48,000, hybrid working, study support, pension, parking, holidays & more