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Job title: Project Finance Accountant - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Position summary
The Project Finance Accountant (PFA) works with the Finance Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team to ensure that the company is achieving project profitability and billability through the provision of timely financial information, and the financial management of client projects. The PFA is responsible for managing project financials on a day-to-day basis and assisting the Finance Business Partners with updating the Oracle Fusion system with up-to-date and accurate financial information. The role will involve supporting the FP&A team to ensure that all client financial and internal reporting needs are met.
Education, work experience and skills
- Previous accounting or finance experience, coupled with an accounting and finance educational background.
- Strong IT skills with proficiency in Excel and accounting software
- Proactive attitude
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (with finance and non-finance colleagues) and strong attention to detail skills
- Ability to work on own initiative with a pro-active approach to work
- A strong team player with a collaborative approach to work
- Excellent relationship building skills with employees at all levels
- Proactive attitude to improving processes
Core responsibilities
- Carries out client invoicing for various clients in line with varying and tight deadlines.
- Updates contracts in the Oracle system, ensuring accuracy to commercial terms.
- Provides status updates on projects.
- Assisting with project reconciliations by working with the client services teams
- Ensuring all time movements in the Oracle are carried out for reconciliations in a timely manner.
- Assists in managing client and other invoicing trackers.
- Provides training to the business on financial compliance and procedures.
- Provides training to the business on the Oracle system.
- Provides the working capital team with ad hoc assistance.
- Ensures that confidentiality and compliance with internal firewalls are always maintained.
Team
- Works in assigned business pillar with the working capital team
- Reports to Working capital manager
Description
Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.
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