Project Accountant

Summary: The role of Project Accountant involves leading a critical finance project focused on developing and implementing a revenue recognition process for a consultancy business. This interim position requires collaboration with the CFO and entails analyzing commercial contracts to ensure accurate financial reporting. The successful candidate will work with large datasets and contribute to improving financial policies and processes. The position is based in Bristol with a hybrid working arrangement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support on the project to implement an effective revenue recognition process for long-term contracts.
• Collect and consolidate relevant financial and operational data from across the business.
• Populate an existing template spreadsheet with the required data for revenue recognition assessment.
• Review and analyze underlying commercial contracts to determine contract type and revenue implications.
• Collaborate closely with the CFO to determine and post correct accounting entries in the accounting system.
• Transition the revenue recognition model into a repeatable monthly process for management reporting.
• Identify and support improvements to other financial policies and processes, including accruals and prepayments.

Key Skills:

• Strong technical knowledge of revenue recognition principles.
• Previous experience implementing or improving finance processes in a growing SME environment.
• Comfortable working with large datasets, spreadsheets, and multiple data sources.
• Able to interpret and apply commercial contract terms to accounting scenarios.
• Self-starter with a proactive approach and strong attention to detail.
• Experience working with project-based businesses, ideally within consultancy, construction, or defence sectors.

Salary (Rate): 400.00

City: Bristol

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Consulting