Project Accountant

at  Royal BAM Group

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE TOMORROW

Bam Nuttall are looking to recruit a Project Accountant who will report to the JV Finance Lead. The successful candidate will be responsible for the provision and interpretation of financial and management information to support and inform the wider site team in the day-to-day management of the JV.

• Month end reporting, creating monthly MI/P&L summaries, assisting with VCRs where necessary
• Reconciliation of ledgers, attendance at month end reviews, highlighting significant deviation at the earliest opportunity and providing variance analysis and commentary
• Preparation of the Trial Balance at month end, incorporating contract assets/liabilities as appropriate and allocation of revenue and costs to date across the various task orders
• Production and ownership of the balance sheet reconciliations
• Understand the project/task order ELFs, the traded position and risks and opportunities
• Perform regular cost audits including reconciliation between actual costs/recoverable costs
• Allocation of JV partner recharge costs to the correct HPC task orders and cost codes. Ensure KBJV HPC are not receiving costs for employees that have either left or are employed in another part of a JV partners business.
• Preparation and submission of client invoices
• Assist in submission of monthly CIS and quarterly VAT returns
• Day to day support to business, working closely with procurement to ensure the supply chain is well managed and understanding business issues and highlighting anything of risk to the forecast.
• Assist with verification checks and oversight on onboarding of new suppliers and subcontractors
• Be able to identify one offs in monthly and quarterly reporting and be able to identify underlying trading. Understand how these one offs should be reported and how they affect the balance sheet.
• Month end journals to transfer costs or post accruals
• Quarterly reporting requirements under IFRS 16
• Work closely with the commercial team to produce a realistic and robust quarterly forecast. and be able to bridge and explain movements year on year and vs prior forecast. Interrogate trading and cash numbers
• Liaise with the commercial team to provide a robust 15-week framework cash flow forecast, at critical points be able to influence receipts and payments to maximise the cash balance.
• Assist with ad hoc projects as required by the business
• Preparation of BAM monthly recharges
• Proactively manage audit requests by providing information in a timely manner and resolving client and external audit querie