Project Accountant
  • England,South East,Surrey,Guildford
  • full-time
  • Salary negotiable
Job Description:
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 Guidlford 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 candidate will be available on short notice & ideally have experience from a Manufacturing background
Job Offer
Competitive Salary
Hybrid Role
32 days holiday + bank
Job number 1821590
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Company Details:
Michael Page Finance
Company size: 5,000 employees
Industry: Accountancy (Qualified)
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