Project Accountant

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