Senior Project Accountant
$50,000–$60,000 year
HybridHaydock, England, United Kingdom
Haydock, England, United KingdomHybridPart Time$50,000–$60,000 yearSenior LevelMedium
Part TimeSenior LevelMedium
Job Summary
Manage project balances within the general ledger, including revenue recognition across short-cycle services, multi-year contracts, and made-to-order manufacturing. Produce monthly project summary reports for Commercial Finance and Pods, while preparing trading results down to gross margin for Board reporting. Explain reported positions, adjustments, and provisions to non-finance stakeholders and serve as the point of contact for external and statutory reporting. This role sits within the Finance team at AVK, the largest energy solutions company in the data centre industry.
Required Qualifications
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Revenue accounting on contracts spanning more than one accounting period, including percentage completion, WIP, accrued and deferred revenue
- Experience of project or contract environments where work is delivered in phases or across disciplines, and an understanding of how scope, change and margin are allocated between them
- An appreciation of the controls that keep labour and cost aligned to the right job
- Familiarity with IFRS 15, including the principles of performance obligations
- UK GAAP (FRS 102)
- Management accounts preparation, with exposure to multi-entity reporting and intercompany
- Has improved or introduced financial processes, policies or controls, and can evidence the difference it made
- Confident with ERP and project costing systems, and able to build reporting from them; strong Excel
- Able to explain accounting positions clearly to non-finance stakeholders
Desired Qualifications
- Line management experience
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