Project Accountant - (Construction / Finance / Solar) at CA Global

Job description

Summary

Our client, an international renewable energy company is seeking a Project Accountant to manage all financial processes for a construction project.

Job Description

This person will be responsible for ensuring confidentiality, accurate and timely record keeping and data management.

Specific Responsibilities And Duties Include

• Process all income and costs, ensuring correct coding, authorisation, and transaction management.
• Routinely review Construction and Professional Fee budgets and monitor change controls, early warnings and contingency drawdowns.
• Set up and manage Project cash flows
• Maintain sufficient contract documentation and check that payments made are in line with contractual terms
• Manage the overheads associated with the Project Team including staff costs
• Ensure costs are correctly allocated to Capital Project costs and ROH internal Project costs
• Control and reconcile designated balance sheet accounts and project codes
• Plan for and manage internal project costs
• Produce monthly finance reports for the project team, to agreed timetables, showing budget, forecast, committed and actual performance against plan, with breakdown of costs and written commentary
• Ensure project budgets and plans are kept up to date to reflect progress and changes to assumptions, including any reforecast as required
• Maintain detailed records as required for both internal and external audit purposes
• Take responsibility for preparation of all financial and non-financial information required for project sponsors, project managers, Project Board, Trustees and external funders as required in both routine reporting and ad hoc requests
• Support managers at all levels to discharge their responsibilities as project managers.
• Provide financial input into forward planning process to support completion of project lifecycle
• Management of robust financial controls and accounting systems
• Delivery of comprehensive financial plans, budgets and reports to required standard, format and timelines
• Delivery of an effective financial management service to support the priorities and success of the project
• Effective relationship management with Project team, Finance team and all key Stakeholders.

Requirements

• Previous experience of project accounting for a construction project
• Extensive experience of computerised accounting systems, preferably Navision
• Accounting degree
• At least 5 years of working experience

Package

Market related and negotiable

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Ansaar Baderoen

Recruitment Consultant

CA Oil & Gas

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