Project Accountant

Page Personnel are recruiting for a Project Accountant on behalf of a fast growing, private equity backed business based in Bury.

The purpose of this role is to play a key role in the production of monthly management accounts whilst also being heavily involved in project accounting & commercial accounting.

Client Details

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.

Description

Project Accountant duties include:

• Hold responsibility for the accurate accounting of revenues and costs of sale across all the Projects and Service areas of the business
• 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
• Reconciliation of customer retention balances and liaison with credit control and commercial team members where deviation from contractual agreement or risk is identified
• 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
• Support the Services business with improvements to simPRO (Services software) and Netsuite integration, accounting of revenues/cost of sales and operational/profitability reporting
• Support with the timely and accurate preparation of information for monthly management accounts and any other supporting information as required
• 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
• Working in tandem with the commercial and operational areas of the business, ensure that the sales and margin forecasts are accurately maintained
• 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
• Support the business with analysis for budgets and financial forecasts on a periodic basis
• 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

Profile

The successful Project Accountant candidate will:

• Have a proven track record within a similar role
• Be part qualified with ACA / ACCA / CIMA or qualified by experience
• Be able to work to tight deadlines
• Have excellent attention to detail
• Be an effective communicator (written and verbal)
• Be able to work alone or as part of a team
• Be proficient in MS Office, particularly MS Excel

Job Offer

A salary up to £48,000, hybrid working, study support, pension, parking, holidays & more