Project Accountant with French

Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering with Project Managers Project Delivery Teams and Senior Operations Management;

• Develop strong working relationships with PMs and Ops teams through appropriate combination of face time and remote working;

• Provide support to promote financial knowledge and understanding of non-finance staff within our operations teams;

• Attendance on portfolio overview meetings with Ops management;

• Become trusted partner with Ops teams to help unlock complex financial issues;

• Attend all project reviews in portfolio;

• Proactively raise finance queries ahead of the review so that these can be clarified as part of the review process;

• Partner with and challenge project teams during the review to bring clarity on project related finance issues;

• Provide support to the Ops teams in preparing for Go/No Go reviews and Healthy Starts;

• Early identification and understanding of movements in project portfolio KPIs to help inform Ops teams of potential financial risks / opportunities;

• Communication of financial issues on projects to project teams;

• Explain to the wider business (primarily Ops & Finance Leadership) potential/actual project risks & opportunities to the P&L and working capital of the end market and ensure communication is tailored and clearly articulated to this wider audience;

• Expert systems user to support PMs and DPMs in use of Workbench when required;

• Able to explain revenue recognition principles to non-finance staff;

• Ensuring revenue expressed across projects at month end is in line with revenue recognition rules;

• Advising on impact of changes in project finances that have wider financial implications eg Loss Provisions/Write Backs and specifically understand impacts to both P&L and Balance Sheet;

• Understand the impact on Revenue Recognition of any unusual contractual issues on projects;

• Understand contractual agreements and implications on project set ups in Workbench;

• Work with the project teams to understand any specific billing and payment requirements of contracts and project cashflows;

• Identify aging Unbilled and AR positions to engage the project team in timely remedial actions;

• Assist in providing guidance to Ops teams on the requirements for DoA approvals where business is operating at risk;

• Monitor for potential breaches in DoA approval process;

• Assist in preparation of DoA approval requests for month end process;

• Help identify actions which may help de-risk DoA positions whilst awaiting client contract Ts and Cs confirmation and contract change processes;

• Meet month end deadlines to ensure timely reporting and posting of revenue events Unbilled and Loss provisions;

• Ensure consistent application of accounting standards across all projects in portfolio and support Ops teams in understanding of documentation requirements to support revenue recognition principles and SOX compliance;

• Special projects and other duties as assigned.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Economics;

• 3-4 years experience as a project accountant/ financial analyst/ revenue recognition accountant;

• Demonstrable experience operating in a complex fast paced international business environment;

• Fluent in French and English (oral and written);

• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills essential;

• Ability to manage details but also understand the big picture;

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;

• Flexibility to work on a late shift (3PM to 11PM);

• Identifies and executes initiatives and continuous improvements;

• Extensive operations interface and collaboration.