Senior Project Accountant - Capex
Marc Daniels
Remote-friendly
This position will suit a technically strong accountant with solid project experience, who is confident owning month-end processes and providing commercial insight to project and business leaders in a fast-scaling company in a growing sector
Key Responsibilities
- Own project accounting across a portfolio of capital and operational projects, ensuring accuracy and integrity of project balances.
- Lead CAPEX accounting, including capitalisation, WIP tracking, asset lives, and reconciliations to the fixed asset register.
- Drive project costing activities: budget vs actuals, cost accruals, variance analysis, forecasting, and margin analysis.
- Take full ownership of month-end for project-related ledgers: accruals, prepayments, reclasses, revenue recognition (where applicable), and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Prepare and analyse monthly project reports, highlighting key movements in cost, margin, and cash flow to support management accounts.
- Partner closely with Commercial Finance, Project Managers, and Operations to challenge assumptions, explain variances, and influence commercial decisions.
- Support internal and external audit requirements, including provision of schedules, reconciliations, and commentary on project accounting treatments.
- Identify and implement process improvements in project accounting, CAPEX controls, and reporting as the business continues to scale.
- Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent) with strong technical accounting knowledge.
- Proven experience as a Project Accountant or in a similar role with clear exposure to CAPEX and project costing.
- Strong month-end background: comfortable owning accruals, prepayments, reclasses, and reconciliations in a tight deadline environment.
- Commercial mindset: able to translate project data into clear insights and recommendations for non-finance stakeholders.
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, complex formulas)
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
- High attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
- Experience in telecommunications, utilities, construction, or a similar field is beneficial
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