Project Accountant

Project Accountant

We are recruiting for an established company based in Loughton who as a family-owned business focused on making you feel at home from day one. This is a full-time opportunity for an experienced Project Accountant to work in a 12 month contract. This is an office based position, working Monday to Friday, 9am - 5:30pm with a 5pm finish on a Friday!

You do not need to be ACCA/CIMA qualified, providing you can demonstrate accounting knowledge plus experience of reporting on projects.

Duties will include:

• Produce monthly management accounts for projects and include financial insights
• Monitoring budgets vs actuals, ensuring anomalies are reported
• Produce monthly income and expenditure summaries for each project, reviewing and investigating spends and transactions
• Liaising with Solicitors and internal teams to ensure funds are in place to complete on new projects
• Reporting to partners and additional teams across all projects regularly, ensuring accuracy of information
• Calculating and requesting funds
• Ensuring accurate journals are prepared and posted
• Raising invoices
• Discuss and present analysis and project cost plans to required teams, ensuring alignment and accuracy

You must be extremely deadline-driven with strong communication skills. You must be able to work in line with the needs of projects and provide financial support and information when requested. It is important that you can confidently take ownership to manage timescales and work within a team where you will be responsible for overseeing the financial budget.

You must be personable and be able to build relationships as you will be liaising with various internal stakeholders. To be successful you will be able to start with only a 4 week notice period or sooner, and the salary on offer to you is £40,000 - £50,000.

Shortlisting has already begun due to an immediate start being available, be quick if you are interested!

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