Senior Project Accountant

Energy Resourcing are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Accountant for a permanent position with our internal partner, to work in their Stockton office.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring timely, accurate and quality financial reporting across the project. As well as this, you will be responsible for overseeing investigation and interpretation of the monthly project results, with responsibility for ensuring all due processes and procedures are met with regard to projects start-up, monthly reporting/ invoicing/ cash-collection and project close down.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Revenue Recognition is compliant with policy and IFRS15
• Ensure that contractual terms are correctly implemented within financial system to enable ease of billing and recording of costs
• Support audit activities for internal, external and client audits.
• Liaise as required with other project/functional partners
• Work closely with Project Controls to ensure cost forecast is accurate and updated regularly reflecting the costs to complete for the project.
• Reviewing and driving excellent working capital management, ensuring DSO and WIP KPIs are effectively monitored
• Cash forecasting including management of FX risk
• Ensure all necessary tax compliance and tax risks are reviewed and discussed with tax team internally
• Collaborate and support Project Leadership Team in all financial reporting of the project
• Liaise as required with other project/functional partners

Skills/Qualifications

• Excellent technical and analytical accounting skills, attention to detail and essential knowledge of revenue recognition and project accounting
• Awareness and experience of providing commercial support and analysis related to ongoing or potential business activities and contract negotiations
• Qualified accountant, or in final stages of qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with experience in a relevant role, ideally within international corporate environment is preferred
• Excellent interpersonal skills who will manage and motivate a team to deliver quality financial data
• A confident and high energy individual with a desire to make a difference and offer suggestions for improvement & recommendation
• Advanced Excel and system skills, Oracle experience highly desirable
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written
• Ability to work well with both peers and operational colleagues