Job Description
This role will be to assist the project accounting team and help FIRST build consistent and robust processes around revenue recognition and project accounting. The Project Accountant monitors the progress of projects, investigates variances and maintains all aspects of financial control around project accounting.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own the financials for all major client projects effectively as 'mini' P&Ls.
- Significant liaison with ADs, PMs and the Commercial team.
- Significant visibility to the SLT.
- Management of revenue/GP/cost actuals for the client projects
- Management (with the commercial team) of forecasts for client projects
- Monthly finance reviews with commercial, PMs, ADs etc. to ensure the project is tracking to forecast/original budget
- Challenge the project teams on GP changes, whether due to timing or increases/decreases in services delivered
- Provide financial insight/information to the commercial to feed into pricing models
- Perform full reconciliation for both internal customers and the client at stages throughout the project, and at the end
- Ensure correct billing and treatment of costs (including correct tax treatment)
- Liaise between credit control and PMs, Client relationship managers on cash collection