Finance Manager / Senior Project Accountant (Consultancy)

Overview

In this Finance Manager / Senior Project Accountant role, you will support project performance, financial planning, and decision-making across a growing, people-focused consultancy. You will partner with project leads and senior stakeholders to drive commercial performance and manage end-to-end project accounting. The role combines profitability analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and insightful reporting to influence outcomes. You’ll work in a project-led environment with significant visibility and development opportunities.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangement
• Exposure to senior leadership
• Highly visible role with impact
• Supportive and collaborative culture
• Excellent career development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Produce monthly Management Accounts and project reporting
• Analyse profitability, WIP, project costs, utilisation, and KPIs to identify opportunities and risks
• Partner with project leads and senior stakeholders to drive commercial performance
• Manage end-to-end accounting for multiple projects
• Review project profitability, budgeting, forecasting, and revenue recognition
• Support month-end reporting and variance analysis
• Challenge and influence stakeholders to improve project outcomes
• Monthly reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts
• Deliver meaningful financial information for strategic decisions
• Support annual budgeting and forecasting processes
• Drive continuous improvement across financial controls and project accounting processes

Key requirements

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
• Experience in a Finance Manager, Project Accountant, Commercial Finance or Business Partnering role
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering capabilities
• Experience in a consultancy, professional services, project-based or people-led environment would be advantageous
• Commercially focused with ability to translate financial information into actionable insight
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence with large data sets
• Strong communication skills to influence senior stakeholders

• stakeholder management
• communication
• influence
• advanced Excel
• project accounting
• budgeting and forecasting

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