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The One Group

Salary

From £35,000 to £40,000 per year

Location

Peterborough

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Based in Peterborough, our large client has an interesting and varied project accountant position. The role will be part of a project team and is responsible for co-ordinating, administering and reporting on a variety of Finance Projects and assistance to Project Managers in project planning.
Responsibilities will include organisation, set up and facilitation of project meetings and workshops, tracking and reporting, budgetary control, risk and dependency tracking and co-ordination and communication to stakeholders. This role will be required to produce presentational material and to have an understanding of project methodology and tools.
Suitable applicants must have experience of working in a similar project environment and possess strong excel skills. Previous experience of working in a matrix environment is also essential. Ideally applicants will hold a CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification but not essential.

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Axon Resourcing Limited

Salary

From £35,000 to £45,000 per year

Location

Liverpool

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

A Project Manager is required for a leading Merseyside organisation. Reporting directly to the Head of Decision Support this is a highly visible role working across a number of differing finance functions. The role will involve creating project budgets, implementing financial controls and forecasting estimates at completion. Providing key stakeholders with relevant, accurate and timely project status information, including tracking physical progress toward milestones as well as expenditure. Partnering with the project manager to ensure projects are delivered on time and within authorized budgets.
To be considered you will be a qualified accountant with strong project financial management experience.Proved track record of project budgeting, planning and forecasting and understanding key business processes and complex business issues.You will need a high level of drive and be able to inspire confidence and build strong internal relationships at all levels.

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Toner Graham

Salary

From £45,000 to £55,000 per year

Location

London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

This global leader in energy and power generation requires a Project Accountant to account for their various power generation projects that relate to gas, steam and wind turbines. You will be responsible for liaising with the accounting team to ensure that all costs relating to the project are accurately reported and will manage the SAP standard costing module. You will also have responsibility for implementing and finalising project budgets and then tracking their profitability through the lifecycle, as well as holding review meetings with budget holders. To be considered for this role you will be a qualified accountant with experience of working in a project accounting capacity. Experience also of working within a related energy/renewables business is not essential but extremely desirable. You will also have exceptional communication skills and be skilled at managing a number of different stakeholders. Please note that Toner Graham is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.

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Hays Senior Finance

Salary

From £35,000 to £45,000 per year

Location

Liverpool

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Our client is a leading UK business and is undergoing a key strategic change initiative.
To support this change they seek to recruit an experienced project accountant.
You will be working on a large capital expenditure project and will be responsible for managing the costs for this project, reporting on progress, and working with multi-disciplined teams to ensure that the project is delivered on time and within budget.

You must be experienced at either project accounting or working on large spend engineering or manufacturing production facilities as part of a multidisciplined team and within a corporate environment.

You must be a qualified accountant and have the confidence and interpersonal skills to work with senior management from a range of disciplines. Presentation skills and project management skills are highly desirable.

This role offers longer term career progression within a large corporate business. This is an excellent opportunity to make your mark and open up further career development. Apply today as applications are sought urgently for this priority project.
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Venn Group

Salary

From £150 to £175 per day

Location

Derbyshire

Qualifications

aca, cima, acca

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Our client, a FTSE 100 company, is looking for commercially minded individuals to act in a project accounting function for their capital programme. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a progressive company during an exciting period of change.

The role is based in the East Midlands, will last a minimum of 6 months and is paying a daily rate of between £150 and £175 dependent on experience.

Key deliverables include:
• Ensuring that project forecasts are at all times thorough and fully considered
• Supporting audits where required, including analysing of monthly cost reports
• Liaising with project teams to prepare and analyse the estimated costs at completion
• Ensuring that projects are accurately entered on SAP and that effective controls are in place
• Liaising with internal and external auditors for all financial matters relating to projects
• Raising financial implications associated with all project variations and risk
• Forecasting and providing detailed MI

In order to be considered for this position you must be a qualified accountant, be studying towards final level or be able to demonstrate solid experience working at a professional level. Experience of working in a project accounting environment and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously is essential.

To apply for this position, please contact Andrew Wilkinson or Nik Stoate at Venn Group on [contact details removed] , or email your CV to [contact details removed] as soon as possible.

At Venn Group, we endeavour to respond to all applications within 48 hours. However due to the volume of applications we receive we may not be able to respond to all applications individually. If you have not heard from us within a 48 hour timeframe your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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Octad Recuitment Ltd

Salary

From £250 to £280 per day

Location

Newcastle upon Tyne

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

The Project Manager will be responsible for managing projects, both for internal and external clients, in accordance with the Client's project management methodology. They will work with other senior stakeholders to ensure projects are completed within agreed constraints of time, cost and quality, and that projects are correctly incepted, well administered, and risk and change are well managed throughout the lifetime of the project.


Responsibilities

· Work with other senior stakeholders to ensure that the assigned project is completed within agreed constraints of time, cost and quality both internally and to external clients.
· Effectively manage scope from inception to close down, enforcing strict control of requirements and Change Management.
· Negotiate available resource on projects with relevant team leaders and Programme Manager(s) or other Project Manager(s).
· Work with technical experts to distribute work effectively between the project team.
· Create and manage project plans (schedule, dependencies, budget, risks/issues). Responsible for presenting and justifying these plans to the Programme Manager or Client Manager for approval and baselining.
· Capture and report project progress and financial data to the Programme Manager, project team, the Client, the client's Project Review Board (PRB) and other relevant stakeholders.
· Work with Release management teams both internal and external C to create a migration release calendar that the project plan and deliverables align to.
· Work with client and Testing staff to optimize testing.
· Work within the governance processes required for a given project with regular reporting of status to various bodies, inc. Steering Committees as appropriate.
· Track and control project milestones and external deliverables promised to the Client.
· Identify and manage risk and critical path activities in the various Project Plans, and facilitate the project team’s involvement in this.
· Ensure all relevant processes are followed on projects. This includes the correct methods for re-planning and escalation if projects go off plan.
· Hold project team meetings; define agenda, produce and distribute all relevant project documentation (including the project risk log, issues log, commercials, decisions log, meeting minutes and actions.)
· Also responsible for post implementation reviews and 'lessons-learnt' processing, including documentation.
· Ensure all project deliverables, including documents such as test plans, and specifications, are of the correct quality, reviewed and signed off according to procedure.
· Administer the allocation of jobs and budgets, and track and report project costs.
· Engage with stakeholders to ensure that everything is running in accordance with their requirements.
· Responsible for ensuring that software development projects leave the core product complete and that the software provided is supportable for the future.
· Be the active point of contact for the Client on assigned projects.
· Hand over work properly when taking holidays or unable to work on the project currently assigned.
· Other ad-hoc duties.


Skills & Attributes
· Understanding of risk / issue management and able to proactively de-risk.
· Can work efficiently under pressure and to tight deadlines.
· Fully competent on Microsoft Project, Excel & other Microsoft Office programs.
· Strong facilitation and analytical skills, with an eye for detail.
· Strong communication and stakeholder management skills: ability to communicate concisely with all levels of an organization.
· Ability to follow and manage project processes; good judgment of when to escalate issues on a project.
· Understanding of management and development methodologies and industry best practice.
· Prince 2, MPM and/or ITIL certified a preference.
· Commercially and numerically minded a preference.
· Experienced in financial sector software project delivery a preference.

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Requaero Limited

Salary

Competitive + Competitive package

Location

Cambridgeshire

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Project Manager, Cambridgeshire

We are searching for an experienced Project Manager with a background in ISP or network equipment to manage the deployment of all our client’s products and services to customers, in partnership with the account team, the customer project manager and Pre-sales consultant.

The role will include but not be limited to:

• Manage the successful on-time and on-budget build, installation and integration within customer networks.
• Effectively lead a small technical team for each customer deployment project.
• Provide support for Pre-Sales presentations about implementation projects and input for trial and live deployment proposals.
• Liaise with Pre-Sales consultants to initiate new trial and live deployments and to transfer project responsibility to Operations.
• Completion of deployment details checklist, with account team and customer.
• Manage customer trial deployments (build and lab test, installation, configuration and support for customer testing).
• Manage live customer deployment projects (build, installation, configuration, customisation, acceptance test and handover to support).
• Manage additional client deliveries as required (e.g. upgrades, migration, custom functionality or reporting).
• Hold regular progress reviews for each project with the customer and project managers.
• Follow-up and ensure closure of outstanding project and technical actions.
• Liaise with Pre-Sales consultants to document new feature requests from customers.
• Create and maintain project documentation.
• Produce regular progress reports for the project team and Delivery Director.
• Provide informal education.
• Ensure that best-practices are followed for all deployment projects.
• Maintain a library of standard methods for implementation projects.
We are searching for a candidate with the following profile:
• Previous experience in a Technical Project Management position, ideally in an ISP or network equipment supplier.
• Able to travel internationally at short notice.
• Good knowledge of project management tools and methods.
• Good knowledge of enterprise-class IP infrastructure - routers/switches/firewalls.
• Experience of web-based services.
• Highly computer literate.
• Confident in MS Office applications (particularly Outlook, Excel and Project).
• Any of the following will be pluses:
• Knowledge of Content Delivery Networks.
• Experience of managing international IP infrastructure deployments.
• Knowledge of networking equipment administration.
• Experience of network management using SNMP.
• Methodological, consistent approach - especially under pressure.
• Takes the initiative to ensure actions are completed and deadlines are met.
• Self-motivated and capable of managing a cross-functional team.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Practical, accurate and precise.
• Ability to build excellent working relationships with external and internal customers.
• Ability to prioritise tasks and projects in-line with business requirements.

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SF Group

Salary

From £20 to £30 per hour

Location

Staffordshire

Job term

Temporary

Project Controller required by a leading global organisation. The Project Controller is responsible for managing the project controlling activities for the projects assigned to them starting from tender phase until the end of warranty period. You will act as the leading Project Controller where the project includes other units supplying equipment/ services in order to receive, review, challenge and consolidate the financial data of the supplying units. Present the consolidated figures together with the Project Manager to the management of the unit and the Sector. The successful Project Controller will have a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Accounting and Finance or equivalent. Proven experience in controlling within a project environment and management or supervisory experience. You will have experience of project cost control and project management. Understand turnkey project accounting and controlling. Be familiar with turnkey project contract Terms and Conditions. You will have knowledge of an ERP system (SAP) and Excel. Good team work and people management skills and good communication skills. My client is an international leader within its sector and has a high profile throughout the world. This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading organisation which is currently going through a period of growth and will offer very good career opportunities throughout the group.Only applicants with a suitable amount of UK based experience and who have a legal right to work within the UK will be considered.