Interim Project Accountant

Salary: £420 per day

Interim Project Accountant

Warwick based

6 month contract

Hybrid working

Up to £420day rate inside IR35

Robert Walters has teamed up with a client who is looking for an Interim Accountant to join one of their project teams for 6 months, to provide financial support to a number of IT Projects and proactively support the management information, forecast and financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities of the Interim Project Accountant:

• Ensure suitable financial reports are built and maintained, detailing spend by project for the IT portfolio

• Ensure that following approvals projects are set up in a timely manner to accurately account for project costs in accordance with the approved IT investment proposal paper’s

• Ensure that project costs are recognised in the books based on the value of work done principles, where possible provided directly by our partners

• Provide accurate, timely and consistent month end reporting in accordance with Finance timetables to project managers and programme delivery managers

• Run forecast, consolidation and review processes to provide robust monthly forecasts for in-flight and unsanctioned projects, accurately allocated, and including risks & opportunities

• Support processes to ensure that approved forecasts and annual budgets and business plans are input into local financial systems in an efficient and accurate way, in accordance with financial time-tables

• Ensure that the regional financial controls in operation are efficient and effective and in conjunction with Shared Services teams ensure compliance with accounting policies and regulatory requirements

• Work in partnership with UK Shared Services accounting teams, ensuring the accuracy, completeness and appropriateness of all management accounts and reporting statements

Skills required from the Interim Project Accountant:

• Experience of major accounting systems, budgeting and forecasting, financial performance reporting and engagement with business management, preferably in a large, international corporate setting

• Accounting qualification – ACA, ACCA, CIMA or similar

• Business Capabilities – Commerciality/Customer/Data management/ Stakeholder management * Strong organisational skills

• Strong ownership to the support implementation of the new financial processes through to successful conclusion

• Strong communication skills including the ability to clearly articulate what is required by whom and by when

• Ability to positively influence behaviours of all involved in the projects financial processes, both finance and non finance

• Ability to work well under own initiative and within wider team

• Good levels of Excel and data manipulation skills