Project Accountant
- Recruiter
- Hamilton Woods Associates
- Location
- Homeworking
- Salary
- Bonus, Pension, Remote working
- Posted
- 20 Oct 2020
- Closes
- 17 Nov 2020
- Ref
- AR-HWA-PU407
- Contact
- James Wood
- Job Title
- Accountant
- Category
- Manufacturing / Engineering
- Experience Levels
- Part Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Project Accountant - Permanent
£40,000 per annum + Bonus + 4% Pension + Holidays + Remote working (Limited)
Basingstoke
Hamilton Woods Associates are searching for an established Project Accountant for a business based in Basingstoke. We have been instructed on an exclusive basis by this multi-faceted electrical engineering & energy services business, looking to secure a finance specialist.
The Project Accountant is an important and newly created role within the finance team. The role is created to support the Director of Operations and their team with financial tracking / control and partnering to validate the most profitable options and choices. The fundamentals of the role involve all financial decisions from purchasing of stock, the under-construction / installation process and the final valuation of the finished assets. Monitoring the expected and realised costs of that process will be essential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Month-end procedures for Stock, Assets-Under-Construction, Tangible Fixed Assets and Intangible Fixed Assets
- Creating and supporting in the implementation of job costing processes; from purchase order to paid invoice
- Owning and running weekly project reviews to support live costing / spend against agreed budgets and actions for any mitigations
- Tracking overall estate statistics for construction costs by region, portfolio and project type
- Assisting project managers in the pre-analysis / budget of the sites and the post-evaluation; ultimately focusing on CAPEX investment appraisal decisions
- Designing and implementing new IT systems to automate both the job costing and stock count record keeping and providing end-user training
Work Experience and Qualifications:
- Prior experience in a finance department managing stock and assets balance sheets
- A clear understanding of stock count controls and fixed asset registers
- Experience in construction and sub-contractor management
- Exposure to operations management / teams (such as project managers, engineers etc)
- Part-qualified accountant desirable, but not essential
If you would like to apply for this Project Accountant role, please get in contact with your CV attached