The posting
Project accounting and financial close
- Support and progressively lead month-end closing activities, ensuring financial information is accurate, complete and delivered on time.
- Manage project-based accounting, including project cost tracking, revenue recognition, percentage-of-completion (POC) calculations, work-in-progress (WIP) reporting, accruals and margin analysis.
- Review project financial performance and highlight cost overruns, margin movements, unbilled revenue, WIP risks and data inconsistencies.
- Maintain accurate project accounting records, reconciliations, schedules and audit trails.
- Improve the accuracy, timeliness and consistency of project reporting and monthly management accounts.
Process improvement and automation
- Review finance workflows and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, controls and scalability.
- Redesign and implement practical improvements across project accounting, closing, invoicing, expenses, reconciliations and reporting.
- Automate recurring processes and reports where appropriate, reducing manual effort and duplicate work.
- Apply AI-enabled tools, automation platforms and data tools responsibly to improve finance productivity, analysis and documentation.
- Develop and maintain process maps, standard operating procedures and checklists.
- Work with internal stakeholders and system providers to test, implement and embed process improvements.
Data and reporting
- Improve the quality, consistency and timeliness of finance and project data across systems and reports.
- Support the development of a trusted single source of truth for project, revenue, cost, WIP and financial reporting.
- Create or enhance management dashboards and reporting packs that provide clear project and financial insight.
- Reconcile key data between project records, operational systems and the accounting system.
- Identify data gaps, errors and inconsistent definitions, and recommend appropriate corrective actions and controls.
- Support the adoption of structured data standards and reporting discipline across the business.
Controls and stakeholder support
- Strengthen finance controls relating to project costs, revenue recognition, WIP, approvals and reconciliations.
- Support year-end audit, statutory reporting and finance-related compliance requirements.
- Partner with project and operational teams to improve the quality and timeliness of financial inputs.
- Support the adoption of new processes, reporting standards and tools within the Finance team.
Candidate Profile
Essential requirements
- Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline. Professional accounting qualification, or active progress toward one, is an advantage.
- Approximately 3–6 years of relevant finance or accounting experience.
- Strong hands-on experience in month-end closing, reconciliations, journal entries and financial reporting.
- Experience in project-based accounting, including POC or revenue recognition, WIP, project costing and margin analysis preferred, but not essential.
- Strong Excel skills and confidence working with large or incomplete datasets.
- Experience with an ERP or accounting system and reporting tools. Exposure to Power BI, Power Query, SQL, workflow automation or comparable tools is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated experience improving a process, automating reporting, improving data quality or implementing a more effective finance workflow.
- Good understanding of financial controls and accounting fundamentals.
Personal attributes
- Strong ownership, initiative and attention to detail.
- Analytical, structured and solutions-oriented.
- Genuine interest in AI, automation, data and finance transformation.
- Able to balance improvement initiatives with the discipline required for accurate month-end delivery.
- Effective communicator with the ability to work confidently with finance, project and operational stakeholders.
- Able to challenge existing processes constructively and support change adoption.
- Organized, dependable and focused on delivering high-quality outcomes.
