Summary: The role of Senior Project Accountant involves overseeing weekly reporting deadlines and supporting project rollouts within a Global Financial Services client in Glasgow. The successful candidate will collaborate with finance and technology stakeholders, ensuring accuracy in reporting and testing new solutions. A key aspect of the position is reviewing the work of junior staff and enhancing operational outputs. The role requires a proactive approach and strong communication skills to build relationships across teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and oversight of staff members' work, ensuring accuracy and investigating discrepancies
• Confidently work to daily and weekly reporting deadlines, influencing stakeholders for successful delivery
• Work with financial data, extracting information from the balance sheet for reviews and checks
• Daily close and reporting of figures to internal departments
• Lead testing of new solutions, ensuring accuracy of messaging with finance and project teams
• Review source information for validity in testing
• Assist and lead in regulatory returns
• Proactively enhance and seek improvements in outputs and production methods
• Communicate effectively, both written and verbal

Key Skills:

• Experience in financial services and finance
• Ability to review and challenge the work of others
• Proactive nature with strong relationship-building skills
• Confidence in working with financial data
• Strong communication skills
• Experience with daily or weekly reporting deadlines
• Exposure to testing and coordinating across BAU and project teams

Salary (Rate): 400

City: Glasgow

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Finance