At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage project accounting, revenue recognition, and month-end reporting for a growing business.
- Company: Join an ambitious company with a dynamic finance team.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth opportunities, and a collaborative work environment.
- Other info: Hands-on role with excellent potential for professional development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by ensuring financial accuracy in a fast-paced setting.
- Qualifications: Strong accounting skills and experience in project finance required.
The predicted salary is between 58500 - 71500 £ per year.
Marc Daniels is partnering with a growing and ambitious business to recruit a Senior Project Accountant to join its Finance team.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role with responsibility for project accounting, revenue recognition, month-end reporting, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of project balances across the ledger.
This position will suit a technically strong accountant who enjoys working closely with both Finance and operational teams, and who can bring structure, control, and insight to a fast-growing business.
The role You will own the accounting across all revenue-generating disciplines, ensuring project balances are accurate, complete, and fully explained.
You will be responsible for revenue recognition on a percentage completion basis, WIP, accrued and deferred revenue, project cost accounting, and the reconciliation of contract asset and liability positions.
You will also lead a controlled month-end close across the project ledgers, prepare the monthly project summary report, and support the production of management accounts down to gross margin.
Working closely with Commercial Finance and the wider business, you will help ensure accounting entries are supported, reconciled, and clearly understood.
Key responsibilities
- Own monthly revenue recognition across all revenue-generating disciplines on a percentage completion basis.
- Account for WIP, accrued revenue, deferred revenue, contract assets, and contract liabilities.
- Reconcile certified and applied values against revenue recognised and explain variances.
- Own project cost accruals, subcontract accounting, provisions, retentions, and related balance sheet reconciliations.
- Lead month-end close for project ledgers, including cut-off and period-end adjustments.
- Produce the monthly project summary report, covering P
Senior Project Accountant employer: Marc Daniels Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Marc Daniels Specialist Recruitment Ltd is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters continuous improvement and innovation in the P2P processes. Located in Maidenhead, employees benefit from a comprehensive package that includes hybrid working arrangements, promoting a healthy work-life balance while providing ample opportunities for professional growth and development within a supportive team environment.
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