Project Accountant
- Didcot, Oxfordshire
- £40,000-43,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Act as the main point of contact between Finance and Project Delivery teams, building strong relationships with internal stakeholders.
- Support the month-end process by preparing revenue recognition files and ensuring accurate financial reporting for projects.
- Reconcile project accounting with financial accounting to maintain strong internal controls.
- Investigate project variances and collaborate with Project Managers to address any discrepancies.
- Monitor project activities and milestones to ensure correct revenue recognition, cost tracking, and invoicing.
- Understand and apply funding rules to all relevant projects.
- Work closely with Project Managers to develop realistic financial budgets and forecasts, evaluating financial impacts and outcomes.
- Provide timely monthly financial updates and analysis for projects, incorporating PMO forecasts to track costs to completion.
- Reconcile employee timesheets with system uploads on a monthly basis.
- Manage project receivables, ensuring all revenue claims are submitted accurately and promptly to grant funding bodies.
- Lead individual project audits as required and manage the closure of project accounts upon completion.
- Own the preparation of key audit deliverables related to revenue recognition and project reporting.
- Assist with project-related accruals, prepayments, and transactional activities such as purchase ordering.
- Support the Finance team with ad-hoc tasks, helping to build resilience and collaboration across the team.
- Drive continuous improvement across financial processes, identifying opportunities to improve project invoicing and financial awareness within the business.
- Part qualified or qualified by experience.
- Government funding knowledge is essential.
- Project experience having managed budgets.
- Strong attention to detail, communication skills and adaptability to change.