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