Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering with Project Managers, Project Delivery Teams and Senior Operations Management

• Develop strong working relationships with PMs and Ops teams through appropriate combination of face time and remote working

• Provide support to promote financial knowledge and understanding of non-finance staff within our operations teams

• Attendance on portfolio overview meetings with Ops management

• Become trusted partner with Ops teams to help unlock complex financial issues

• Attend all project reviews in portfolio

• Proactively raise finance queries ahead of the review so that these can be clarified as part of the review process

• Partner with and challenge project teams during the review to bring clarity on project related finance issues

• Provide support to the Ops teams in preparing for Go/No Go reviews and Healthy Starts

• Early identification and understanding of movements in project portfolio KPI's to help inform Ops teams of potential financial risks / opportunities

• Communication of financial issues on projects to project teams

• Explain to the wider business (primarily Ops & Finance Leadership) potential/actual project risks & opportunities to the P&L and working capital of the end market and ensure communication is tailored and clearly articulated to this wider audience

• Expert systems user to support PM's and DPM's in use of Workbench when required

• Able to explain revenue recognition principles to non-finance staff

• Ensuring revenue expressed across projects at month end is in line with revenue recognition rules

• Advising on impact of changes in project finances that have wider financial implications eg Loss Provisions/Write Backs and specifically understand impacts to both P&L and Balance Sheet

• Understand the impact on Revenue Recognition of any unusual contractual issues on projects

• Understand contractual agreements and implications on project set ups in Workbench

• Work with the project teams to understand any specific billing and payment requirements of contracts and project cashflows

• Identify aging Unbilled and AR positions to engage the project team in timely remedial actions

• Assist in providing guidance to Ops teams on the requirements for DoA approvals where business is operating at risk

• Monitor for potential breaches in DoA approval process

• Assist in preparation of DoA approval requests for month end process

• Help identify actions which may help de-risk DoA positions whilst awaiting client contract T’s and C’s confirmation and contract change processes

• Meet month end deadlines to ensure timely reporting and posting of revenue events, Unbilled and Loss provisions

• Ensure consistent application of accounting standards across all projects in portfolio and support Ops teams in understanding of documentation requirements to support revenue recognition principles and SOX compliance

• Special projects and other duties as assigned

Knowledge/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics;
• 3-4 years’ experience as a project accountant/ financial analyst/ revenue recognition accountant;

• Demonstrable experience operating in a complex, fast paced, international business environment;

• Fluent in English (oral and written);

• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills essential;

• Ability to manage details but also understand the “big picture”;

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;

• Flexibility to work on a late shift (3PM to 11PM);

• Identifies and executes initiatives and continuous improvements;
• Extensive operations interface and collaboration.