Description
Project Accountant - Edinburgh - £p/d - 6 months+
My financial services client is looking for a number of Project Accountants to join their finance function on an initial 6 month contract to support business partners in making major decisions involving finance within their projects. The successful candidates are required to be part qualified accountants with demonstrable experience in a blue chip organisation.
Key Role Deliverables:
* Act as relationship manager to Senior Management providing effective and appropriate analysis, with targeted interpretation of results. Ensure unsatisfactory performance is challenged, risks identified and resolved/escalated, and solutions suggested/validated.
* Ongoing tracking and analysis of existing income & profit initiatives.
* Business support/partnering to appropriate business management/forums.
* Analysis, communication and monitoring of financial performance, including monthly threats/opportunities and mitigants.
* Quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting.
* Provide support and challenge in the development of Product/Pricing propositions/business cases for new business developments. Also ensure appropriate governance, investment appraisal, monitoring and tracking of all initiatives.
* Support wider Finance team on ad-hoc activities.
Experience:
* Fully qualified or part qualified accountant
* Likely to have experience of multi-functional management team contribution with budget delivery support or to show signs of developing expertise in subsets of Decision Support activities.
* Knowledge of Financial Services a benefit but not a pre-requisite.
* Previous exposure to commercial business operations or is aware of current business issues and able to see relevance to own business area/division.
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