Sitec are currently looking to recruit a Project & Management Accountant for a nuclear MoD establishment in Reading. The post is permanent and is paying competitively from £28,770 - £39,340 per annum plus benefits.

Successful applicants will be required to be Security Cleared prior to appointment and must hold a British Passport and UK residency for the past 10 years or more to qualify.

To provide guidance and financial integrity, driving value for money within financial targets.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities
* Accountable for approving and loading project cost adjustments, general ledger journals and accruals into business systems
* Accountable for providing financial insight and interpretation of reports to internal and external stakeholders
* Accountable for providing project and / or management accounting advice, guidance and challenge to the relevant business area
* Accountable for validating the financial content of DE and task-based Business Cases.
* Accountable for establishing and routinely analysing cost drivers and business trends to understand business performance and identify improvements, for the relevant business area
* Accountability for the preparation and delivery of relevant financial deliverables to the timescale, e.g. SRD delivery timetable, sales, integrated business plan
* Accountable for developing and maintaining working relationships and awareness with key internal and external stakeholders
* Responsible for reviewing actual revenues and costs against budgets and forecasts, including investigating variances to establish their financial cause and effect
* Responsible for compliance with, and providing challenge and guidance to, the budgeting and forecasting cycle, in accordance with the relevant business area
* Responsible for line managing a team of direct reports, maintaining their skill set and providing support and mentoring, as required
* Responsible for following relevant statutory accounting standards and advising other business areas on relevant accounting practices, as required
* Responsible for developing, maintaining and delivering training methods, tools and materials to enable individuals across site to enhance their financial awareness
* Responsible for managing, maintaining and providing the standard costs for services methodology
* Responsible for validating and providing assurance on realisation of cost benefits.
* Responsible for agreeing specific, and / or elements of, Financial Strategic Requirement Documents, in accordance with Corporate Change Control
* Responsible for confirming the timetables for specific, and / or elements of, Financial Strategic Requirement Documents
* Responsible for assessing implications and impact of business decisions on the ability of the business to deliver specific and / or elements of Financial Strategic Requirement Documents, escalating where appropriate
* Responsible for the development, implementation and compliance with Corporate Audits and Audit Committee mandates and confirming timescales
* To undertake other duties as reasonably required from time to time by line and task management
* Responsible for ensuring understanding of responsibilities and demonstrating appropriate behaviours in line with the company's environmental, health, safety, security, quality and ethics standard

Knowledge, Skills & Experience
* Competent in budget management
* Competent in cash management
* The ability to understand the impact of cash flow for the business, supplier and customer, and take the appropriate action
* Competent in independence
* Competent in financial accounting - The ability to produce financial accounts in accordance with relevant financial standards e.g. IFRS, GAAP
* Working towards competence in financial modelling and scenario analysis - The ability to build and analyse financial models which interpret business requirements. This includes financial modelling for purposes of investment appraisal and commercial pricing
* Working towards competence in confidence modelling - The ability to use statistical modelling techniques to provide confidence in business plans and processes
* Competent in performance analysis - The ability to analyse different types of performance data and provide insight and recommendation on performance, e.g. earned value, performance forecasting
* Competent in tax management - The ability to manage the company's tax liability effectively through the application of tax laws, organisational tax practices, obligations, issues, and trends
* Competent in benefits management - The ability to identify, quantify, measure and assure business and investment benefits, using the company's tools and techniques
* Working towards expert competence in specific business system, tools and techniques - The ability to use and develop specific company business system application and / or tools to complete activities in support of discrete business areas (e.g. SCM, Finance, BC&C) and to maintain the integrity of master data
* Competent in EVM - The ability to apply Earned Value Management tools and techniques to interpret associated inputs and metrics; providing timely insight and recommendations on project and programme performance
* Working towards expert competence in LRP & F - The ability to create and maintain a long range plan to enable comprehensive and realistic forecasting, providing a sound basis for management decision making

Qualifications
* Qualified, or working towards a suitable accountancy qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA), or qualified by experience

This vacancy is being advertised by Sitec, part of the Sitec Group. The services advertised by Sitec are those of an Employment Agency

This vacancy is being advertised by Sitec. The services advertised by Sitec are those of an Employment Agency.