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Finance Business Partner - Projects

Milton Keynes
£50k – £60k/yr
Posted about 11 hours ago
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A long-established, fast-growing specialist events business is seeking a talented Finance Business Partner/Management Accountant to join its Milton Keynes team. With projects across the UK, Middle East and Asia, the business delivers high quality, rapidly deployed solutions.

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Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will play a key role in supporting financial performance across a broad range of projects. You'll be responsible for project and management accounting as well as business partnering a variety of non finance stakeholders. Your duties will include:

  • Lead budgeting, forecasting and cost control across the project lifecycle
  • Prepare Cost-to-Complete reports and ensure accurate profit recognition
  • Ensure robust calculation of costs, benefits and cash flows
  • Develop and refine a standardised project costing model
  • Manage capital budgets and track expenditure against approvals
  • Maintain the Fixed Asset Register and monthly depreciation
  • Provide effective financial partnering to business operations
  • Deliver timely and value-adding reporting to support commercial decisions
  • Build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships

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What you'll need to succeed

You'll need to be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with excellent communication and business partnering skills as well as experience working within project accounting or a project based environment.

What you'll get in return

You'll be paid £50,000-£60,000 (DOE) in a fully office based role (although flexibility can be considered). You'll be working for an industry leading, high growth business who are looking for an ambitious individual to grow with them with the long term aim for this role to become a Financial Controller.

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Skills

Financial Performance
Project Accounting
Management Accounting
Budgeting
Forecasting
Cost Control
Stakeholder Relationships
Cost Calculation
Cash Flow Management
Reporting
Business Partnering
Fixed Asset Management
Expenditure Tracking
Depreciation
Capital Budget Management
Profit Recognition

Location

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

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