Project Accountant

We are working with a specialist water treatment and environmental solutions business delivering critical services across the UK, who are looking to appoint a Project Accountant based in Monmouth.

This is a broad finance role sitting close to live projects, giving you real visibility of costs, risk and performance across long term workstreams.

The position will work closely with both the finance team and project teams, making it well suited to someone who enjoys more than pure month end reporting.

It is a strong opportunity for an accountant who values stability, wants to work in a growing sector, and can bring the right personality fit to a close knit team.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain monthly project profit and loss reporting aligned to key milestones.
• Work with Project Managers to track costs, monitor spend and support budget control.
• Support forecasting by ensuring project activity is accurately captured and reported.
• Maintain project balance sheet schedules including accruals, prepayments, WIP and retention.
• Support risk registers and financial visibility across active long term projects.
• Assist with management accounts, cashflow forecasting and VAT reporting when required.
• Support system and process improvement, including database accuracy and automation.
• Contribute to inventory and fleet asset verification where needed.
• Support year end close and provide information to external auditors.
• Work across finance and project teams to improve reporting, controls and decision making.

Skills & Experience

• Qualified or part qualified accountant, ideally CIMA, ACCA or ACA.
• Experience in project accounting, management accounting or contract led finance environments.
• Strong understanding of forecasting, cost control and financial reporting.
• Good grasp of contract accounting, project recognition and risk management.
• Experience with finance systems such as Sage, Syrinx, Microsoft Dynamics or similar.
• Comfortable working with data, BI reporting and system or database development.
• Able to work independently and hit the ground running in a broad finance role.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to business partner with project teams.
• Methodical, analytical and organised, with good attention to detail.
• Personality fit is important, so a collaborative and grounded approach will matter.

Summary

Position: Project Accountant

Location: Monmouth, South Wales

Duration: Permanent

Salary: £50,000 to £54,000 Plus Bonus (Quarterly payments) & Benefits

Start: Notice dependent

A well rounded finance opportunity in a stable, growing sector where you can work closely with projects, influence decision making and build a long term career.

Apply now or contact the Kiota team for more details.