Description
We are seeking a Development Project Accountant to lead the financial management and accounting of our development projects. You will manage and develop the project finance team, maintain effective controls over invoice processing and project transactions, and oversee VAT accounting.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the financial management and accounting of the Group's development projects, ensuring accurate and timely financial information.
- Manage and develop the project finance team, maintaining effective controls over invoice processing and project transactions.
- Maintain the integrity of the project ledger, ensuring costs are correctly recorded, supported and allocated across projects, tenure and legal entities.
- Oversee Value Added Tax (VAT) accounting, ensuring VAT is correctly analysed, recorded, and recoverable amounts are identified and recovered promptly.
- Partner with Project Managers to ensure budgets, forecasts and key financial arrangements are accurately maintained and reported.
- Oversee intercompany development transactions, ensuring costs incurred by Design & Build entities are billed and reconciled on a timely basis.
- Work with Development Finance and Joint Ventures and Development Delivery teams to ensure appropriate intercompany development and lease agreements are in place.
- Monitor project financial performance, providing insight and challenge on costs, forecasts, cash flows, risks, and emerging issues.
- Maintain strong financial controls, reconciliations, supporting evidence and audit trails, ensuring period and year-end requirements are delivered accurately and on time.
- Act as a key point of contact for development accounting matters, working collaboratively with internal stakeholders and external auditors and other advisers and ensuring queries and information requests are resolved promptly.
- Drive continuous improvement in development finance processes, controls, systems and reporting, making effective use of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (D365 F&O) and data analysis.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A CCAB recognised accounting qualification.
- Strong technical project/development accounting knowledge, demonstrable experience of managing and developing a finance team, and a strong controls mindset with the ability to identify weaknesses, resolve complex accounting issues and improve processes.
- Uphold ethical principles including integrity, objectivity, professional competence, confidentiality, and professional behaviour; be a role model of the organisation's values.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills for diverse audience engagement; work collaboratively.
- Strategic thinking ability; capable of analysing complex data to develop solutions and make well-reasoned decisions.
- Experience influencing operational activities at both tactical and strategic levels.
- Proficiency in Excel; knowledge of D365 F&O and Power BI preferred.
- Evidence of strong partnerships and relationship building with internal/external stakeholders.
- Ability to manage, develop, appraise and performance manage staff to ensure they are fully motivated to achieve best performance.
- A thorough understanding of the development finance functions related to new build and regeneration programs.
Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities.
- Generous pension scheme.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements.
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
- Health cash plan.
- Staff discounts - access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
- Interest-free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary.