Project Accountant - Finance Consultant

Hampshire  ‐ Onsite
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Project Accountant - Finance Consultant required for a leading global defence company based in the Portsmouth or Basingstoke area. We are looking for a project accountant with business facing experience, need to have strong commercial awareness and need to have worked in a business facing environment. Able to read contracts and work on pricing.

Main Accountabilities

Review and Control

  • To liaise with operational management and provide accounting support, cost control, systems development and procedural control as required.
  • Work on monthly management accounts.
  • Review and ensure customer billing is in line with contracts. Provide support and direction to resolve issues as required.
  • Ensure Policy and best practice is followed to ensure that there are no external or internal audit queries.

Contract Accounting

  • To produce timely and accurate financial information for the contracts, including contract management accounts, forecast information, annual financial budgets and assumptions
  • To produce analysis and commentary on the performance of the contracts for inclusion in the Finance monthly report, Contract Review reports, Programme review reports and any other as required.
  • To support in the preparation of the contract risk register.
  • To provide accurate and effective management information for the contract.
  • To ensure all control accounts are reconciled to relevant contract related balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis.
  • To provide all financial support required for reporting against the contract eg provision of KPIs and contract performance measures (CPMs).
  • Provide Finance support for pricing/implementation of new business as required

Financial Support

  • To ensure that the contract balance sheets are reconciled and controlled.
  • Review of the debtors and creditors including ageing and issue resolution.
  • To provide any further reports as required.

Essential Skills:

  • Previous Finance Accounting experience
  • Business Facing Experience
  • Contract Project accounting experience
  • Project accounting experience
  • Qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent
  • Intermediate to advanced Excel skills, good knowledge of MS Office, competent user of Financial recording systems (eg Navision) and any associated systems
  • Must have current SC or be able to obtain UK SC Clearance
Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Experis Engineering
Published at
25.03.2015
Project ID:
874095
Contract type
Freelance
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