A new role has been created for a growing group of businesses which takes controls of the project costing and revenue aspects of projects. It is a 6-month contract but has a real possibility of converting to permanent thereafter. Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will have considerable interaction with service & operational teams to resolve issues and invoicing and revenue through to payment and identify causes to prevent future delays.

Gross Profit analysis and reconciliation
Preparing project by project gross profit analysis ensuring sales and costs are matched correctly
Working with service & ops teams to ensure costs are accurately posted to each job
Ensuring both those project jobs and stock values are correctly stated.
Monthly review of Inventory report to determine accurate numbers being reported in our monthly management accounts
Reviewing and preparing monthly adjustments to the WIP and Accrued Revenue after project reviews.
Ensuring all costs are booked in the correct period & preparing accrual journals as needed
Reconciling supplier statements.
Ensuring sub-contractor costs are correctly booked to the correct job and at month-end accruing work not billed yet by them.
Full review of all costs to Gross Profit monthly ensuring any costs outside of projects are correctly accounted in the period
Develop & prepare reports showing comparisons to prior month/budget and commentary for significant variances.

An understanding of applications/CIS/Retention are a distinct advantage as well as an understanding of inventory valuation and project type costing analysis. Knowledge of applications / retentions within the construction or related industry is preferred. You should have a collaborative style to ensure non-financial team work to any changes and performed to deadlines as needed.
Flexibility is required as the role will involve both transactional accounting along with good reporting and reconciliation skills