Project Accountant

Key Responsibilities to the Business

• Facilitate monthly commercial review meetings with key stakeholders to improve forecast quality, commercial decision making and performance.
• Lead the month-end billing cycle, ensuring invoices accurately reflect contractual terms and all billable activity is captured.
• Lead the assurance of the business pipeline and revenue forecasts, maintaining accurate information to support commercial decision making.
• Lead business planning activities with key stakeholders, translating forecasts into business plans, identifying commercial risks and opportunities.
• Own the commercial contract register, ensuring contractual obligations, commercial opportunities and key lifecycle events are proactively managed.
• Represent Finance in client and engagement meetings, providing commercial insight to support effective decision making.
• Lead the commercial contribution to financial, quality and client audits, ensuring commercial information, invoicing and revenue recognition are accurate, complete and supported by appropriate evidence.
• Help structure and provide assurance for the work of less experienced practitioners, enabling them to maximise quality and velocity. Monitor the application of the methods and requirements of the Online Operations Manual (OOM) process, pro-actively managing technical risks and issues, identifying improvements and building these into the process.
• Build effective working relationships with other Service Groups, client counterparts where relevant, and those of partner/3rd party organisations.
• Hold a recognised professional accountancy qualification and maintain professional competence through CPD.

Key Responsibilities to the Project Accountancy Discipline

• Champion and actively contribute to and improve policies, standards, and guidelines through the OOM processes, based on experience and awareness of wider industry best practice and innovations.
• Play a leading role in the ongoing development of the discipline, driving innovation, best practice adoption, and supporting leads to maintain an energised community of practitioners, taking a leading role in meetings and activities. Motivate and empower practitioners to create a positive and creative culture for our people to perform well, learn and grow.
• Support the growth of Informed’s capability by helping to recruit staff (interviews, assessments), and contributing to InformedACADEMY© (masterclasses, training), shaping materials to achieve curriculum outcomes.
• Provide Practitioner Coaching for less experienced practitioners.

Key requirements

• At least 3 to 5 years of relevant project accountancy experience
• A professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACCA, ACA , CIMA or equivalent)
• Ability to communicate financial data clearly to non-financial stakeholders
• Proficiency with accounting software and financial systems
• Strong financial analysis and reporting skills

Desirable skills

• Experience working across multidisciplinary programme and project teams
• Knowledge of FRS 102 revenue recognition

Key abilities that are necessary for success

Benefits

• Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.
• These can include:
• InformedACADEMY™ – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme*
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• *Qualifying period applies
• Culture We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.
• We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.
• We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.
• Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.
• We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.
• * We are hiring for this role across both our Altrincham (Manchester) and Westminster (London) offices, giving you the flexibility to be based in either location while working as part of a collaborative, high-performing team.