We Do Group
Project Accountant
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Project Accountant - Infrastructure
Location
CHESTER
Work Arrangement
4 days in the office / 1 day from home
Job Type
Permanent
Overview
A newly created build role in a growing project-based business
Salary
£70,000-£75,000 + benefits
Are you a project accountant or commercial finance professional who likes building things from scratch? Do you thrive working shoulder to shoulder with project managers, turning delivery into numbers - and numbers into decisions?
We Do Group are hiring a Project Accountant for a growing, international renewable energy business. This is a genuine build role - there's no project-level reporting in place today, so you'll create it. You'll design and stand up project P&Ls, work directly with project managers as their finance partner, and feed real margin data back into how the business bids for work.
It sits at the confluence of finance, operational delivery and the bid team. The project managers are strong at getting the job done but haven't traditionally owned the financial side, so as much of this role is business partnering and mentoring as it is technical accounting. The work itself is simple, practical project accounting - the value is in building it well and making it stick. If you like taking a blank page and building something useful, this is that role.
Wish List
- Experience building project-level reporting from scratch - project P&Ls, cost tracking, forecast to completion - not just running what already exists
- A natural business partner who can win the trust of operational project teams and talk money in a way that lands with non-finance people
- Comfortable in a project-based environment (construction, infrastructure, engineering or similar) and happy creating structure where none exists
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The Role
- Design and build a project-level reporting framework from the ground up - cost codes, budget vs actual, and forecast to completion
- Produce monthly project P&Ls for each work scope, with clear narrative alongside the numbers
- Configure the accounting system to pull reliable, repeatable project-level reporting
- Retrospectively tag historic transactions to project codes to build an accurate baseline
- Monitor project cost performance, flagging variances and risks early enough for management action
- Own project-level cost and revenue recognition, working with the Group FC so group accounts are fully supported
- Business partner with project managers across regions - translating delivery into financial position, and financial data back into operational insight
- Challenge and support project managers on resourcing, cost commitments and scope changes with clear analysis
- Support the bid team with robust cost models and pricing assumptions, bringing rigour and consistency to tenders
- Build a feedback loop between project actuals and bid assumptions so pricing sharpens over time
- Review bid financials before submission, pressure-testing margin assumptions
- Document processes and build simple tools that help non-finance colleagues understand and engage with project finances
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Your Profile
- Strong project accounting experience - a qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CA) is welcome but not essential; qualified-by-experience and QS backgrounds will be considered
- Effective communicator - written and verbal, credible with senior operational and project leaders
- Good working knowledge of MS Excel, confident with large datasets and building models
- A self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and building from a blank page
- Familiar with project-based or time-and-materials environments; construction-adjacent experience an advantage
Salary & Benefits
- Salary: £70,000-£75,000
- Bonus: Discretionary bonus (group performance scheme in development)
- Work Arrangement: 4 days in the office / 1 day from home, with some flexibility
- Travel: Occasional travel to a second regional office (around an hour away) to meet project teams
- Benefits:
- Private healthcare
- 20 days holiday + bank holidays
- Statutory pension scheme
- On-site parking
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