Project Accountant

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Job description

Location - Remote/London or Bristol for meetings.
Duration - 3 months
Rate - £467pd (inside ir35)

Responsibilities for this role:

*Budget: Engaging at Director level to ensure allocated portfolio, relevant CAPEX requirements are appropriately funded via agreed interlocks, and manage change control as necessary throughout the year
*Forecast: Accountable for ensuring the costs of the Programe are accurately forecasted on a monthly basis against agreed funding; and that the PMs/Delivery leads are responsible for the quality and accuracy of their monthly financial forecasts
*Cost to Funding alignment: Responsible for ensuring the Programme is cost to funding aligned
*Billing: Responsible for ensuring the Programme is appropriately and accurately recovering their costs against approved funding (including all resource and relevant 3rd party spend).
*Reporting: Financial reporting in agreed format across all Programme workstreams, working with PMs/Delivery leads to ensure accuracy of data
*Risks: To be proactive in identifying, tracking, managing and reporting any financial risks, issues and opportunities
*Improvements: to take responsibility to identify and deliver step change improvement initiatives benefiting the Programme

Skills:

*Storytelling with data: strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences
*Organised & detail orientated -strong understanding of incoming funding and how you manage the spend/costs throughout the year
*Negotiation skills - working with stakeholders (inc CFUs), ensuring you are firm in your negotiations
*Stakeholder management - as the person responsible for ensuring that we meet scorecard KPI's you'll need to work closely with other teams and challenge where necessary
*Reporting - creation of reports that are useful, accurate and unambiguous
*Commercial acumen: Knowledgeable in business strategy and the drivers of organisational performance, financial literacy (eg business KPIs, business cases)

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