Project Accountant - 12 Month Contract

This is a high-profile role, partnering project Teams, FP&A counterparts across the business and senior Finance Management, to ensure an efficient, reliable project cost management process. It therefore represents an excellent opportunity for a strong individual to make an impact and build their profile.

Responsibilities:

• Lead co-ordination of the financial tracking, planning and forecasting processes within the relevant projects an on-going basis (capex, non-recurring and on-going costs)
• Provide effective finance business partnering support to the project Teams on a regular and on-demand basis and continuous interlock between various projects/functions/Teams
• Deliver analysis and detailed commentary to report against variances up to Exec level, highlighting key issues / risks / topics for discussion
• Responsible for cost control and scrutiny of project spend while maintaining correct governance, leveraging off knowledge and experience of project lifecycles
• Significant modelling and analysis will be required, so ability to create, setup, implement and manage new models and processes is key
• Mindset to deliver simplification, standardisation and automation of reporting & processes

Qualifications:
Essential

• A graduate, qualified Accountant
• Able to work under time pressure and able to manage multiple priorities
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills and a wider interest in systems
• Knowledge of commercial, financial and operational reporting
• Previous project accounting experience
• Consolidation and reporting experience
• Motivated self-starter - able to identify improvement ideas (challenge the status quo) and follow-up on delivering these
• The ability to communicate with people at all levels in both financial and non-financial management, distilling detailed information down into key clear messages
• A persuasive manner and the ability to exert influence to drive impact across the project
• Ability to build relationships across multiple user sites

Desirable

• Basic modelling skills
• Previous FMCG experience
• SOX or other control environment experience