Project Accountant

Project Accountant

Posted 2 weeks ago by Experis UK

£350 Per day
Inside
Onsite
Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Summary: The Project Accountant role involves managing reconciliations and collaborating with operations and customers to ensure financial accuracy for a portfolio of clients. This is a high-impact, short-term contract position based in Coventry, requiring strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of double-entry bookkeeping. The successful candidate will work independently to resolve financial discrepancies and maintain accurate records. AAT qualification is preferred for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Investigate and reconcile complex ledger balances
  • Collaborate with customers and internal operations teams to resolve discrepancies
  • Determine whether invoices need to be raised or reissued
  • Collate and organise financial files and documentation
  • Apply double-entry accounting principles to ensure accurate reconciliation
  • Work independently to piece together fragmented financial data and bring accounts to resolution

Key Skills:

  • Strong reconciliation experience
  • Solid understanding of double-entry bookkeeping
  • Comfortable working with high volumes of transactions
  • Excellent communication skills
  • AAT Qualified preferred

Salary (Rate): £350 daily

City: Coventry

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Project Accountant £350 per day (PAYE) Coventry (Onsite) 3 Month Contract

Our client is currently searching for 6 project accountants to join their team in Coventry. This is a high-impact, short-term contract where you will be responsible for working on reconciliations and working closely with operations and customers to ensure accuracy for portfolio of clients.

Role Responsibilities

  • Investigate and reconcile complex ledger balances
  • Collaborate with customers and internal operations teams to resolve discrepancies
  • Determine whether invoices need to be raised or reissued
  • Collate and organise financial files and documentation
  • Apply double-entry accounting principles to ensure accurate reconciliation
  • Work independently to piece together fragmented financial data and bring accounts to resolution

Experience Required

  • Strong reconciliation experience - you will need to see the full picture and know how to connect the dots
  • Solid understanding of double-entry bookkeeping
  • Comfortable working with high volumes of transactions
  • Excellent communication skills - able to liaise with both internal teams and external customers
  • Not a credit control role - this requires analytical and accounting insight beyond chasing payments
  • AAT Qualified preferred

If you are interested, please do not hesitate to apply, either apply direct or reach out at . Please note that in the event of a high volume of applications we will only be able to reach out to successful applicants in the first instance.