Project Costing Accountant - 6 months

A new role has been created for a growing group of businesses which takes controls of the project costing and revenue aspects of projects. It is a 6-month contract but has a real possibility of converting to permanent thereafter. Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will have considerable interaction with service & operational teams to resolve issues and invoicing and revenue through to payment and identify causes to prevent future delays.

• Gross Profit analysis and reconciliation
• Preparing project by project gross profit analysis ensuring sales and costs are matched correctly
• Working with service & ops teams to ensure costs are accurately posted to each job
• Ensuring both those project jobs and stock values are correctly stated.
• Monthly review of Inventory report to determine accurate numbers being reported in our monthly management accounts
• Reviewing and preparing monthly adjustments to the WIP and Accrued Revenue after project reviews.
• Ensuring all costs are booked in the correct period & preparing accrual journals as needed
• Reconciling supplier statements.
• Ensuring sub-contractor costs are correctly booked to the correct job and at month-end accruing work not billed yet by them.
• Full review of all costs to Gross Profit monthly ensuring any costs outside of projects are correctly accounted in the period
• Develop & prepare reports showing comparisons to prior month/budget and commentary for significant variances.

An understanding of applications/CIS/Retention are a distinct advantage as well as an understanding of inventory valuation and project type costing analysis. Knowledge of applications / retentions within the construction or related industry is preferred. You should have a collaborative style to ensure non-financial team work to any changes and performed to deadlines as needed.
Flexibility is required as the role will involve both transactional accounting along with good reporting and reconciliation skills.