Project Accountant - Permanent

SAP, lot of experience, internal role
United Kingdom

This position involves managing the financial aspects of projects from start to finish. Key responsibilities include ensuring accurate financial reporting, maintaining billing data in SAP S/4 HANA, and producing project reports. The role also involves regular communication with Project Managers (PMs) to update project changes, create billing proposals, and raise invoices. Additionally, the role requires presenting project financials during monthly reviews, explaining budget variances, and building strong relationships with PMs to ensure timely invoice payments. The candidate will also be responsible for maintaining data in client portals, responding to finance-related queries, and participating in process improvement initiatives.

About delaware

We exist to help our clients reach their full potential, by applying our common sense, business experience and passion for technology. 

Delaware is a global consultancy that partners with leading technology providers such as SAP (Platinum Partner) and Microsoft to deliver advanced digital solutions. We develop, innovate and implement technology transformations guiding our clients towards an intelligent future.

Everyone at Delaware is a steward of the business. We are building for the future and for those that succeed us and we take responsibility for our relationship with the social and ecological environment.

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What will you be doing?

  • Project Financials: Ensure accurate financial reporting from start to finish. Understand contracts, confirm sales rates, and maintain billing data in SAP S/4 HANA
  • Project Reporting: Regularly update PMs on project changes and produce month-end project packs, including revenue adjustments, prepayments, and accruals
  • Billing/Invoicing: Maintain billing dates and values in SAP, create billing proposals, and raise invoices. Identify variances to maintain billing momentum and mitigate late revenue risks
  • Monthly Reviews: Present project financials to the team and resolve any issues 
  • Budget vs Actuals: Report and explain variances, and conduct analytical reviews of assigned projects
  • Credit Control: Build strong relationships with PMs to ensure timely invoice receipt and payment
  • Client Portals: Maintain and submit data in relevant portals

Is there a match?

  • Experience with Monthly Closure processes, including reconciliations and financial analysis.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Detail-oriented mindset with a focus on accuracy and quality.
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to convey financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
  • High level of Excel skills.
  • Capable of working as a team whilst simultaneously taking ownership of the role required.
  • Experience of accounting software is essential
  • Experience of SAP preferred but not essential

Our Culture and Values

We attract and retain only the best people who share our values and thrive in our culture. We strive for the highest levels of excellence in all that we do – with our clients, our people, our business, our careers.

We do the right thing to satisfy our clients, combining quiet confidence and a human touch.  We are open, positive, enthusiastic and energetic. At Delaware we value and invest in personal competence as much as technical competence and we all want to help each other succeed. We value diversity for the breadth of perspectives and skills it brings us and the better results it produces.

We enjoy each other’s company. We work hard together and we have fun together. We trust one another.

Underpinning our culture are our core values. They are a living part of our daily interactions, influencing what we do and how we do it. They guide how we work with our colleagues, customers, and partners.

Care - we take responsibility. Commitment - we commit, we deliver. Community -  we are better together. Respect - inclusive and diverse. Entrepreneurship - we cherish creativity and drive

Let's meet!

Come have a chat with us and tell us all about your skills, talents and previous experience.

Are you keen to help us grow our back office Finance team ? Make sure to connect with us if you have any questions whatsoever.

Click the Apply now button below and hopefully we’ll get to meet each other soon!

Right to work

Please note that it is a legal requirement that you have the right to work in the UK by the time you commence employment.  We therefore ask those shortlisted for interview to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK during the recruitment process.  

Delaware holds a sponsor licence but not all roles are suitable for sponsorship, especially as, in some cases, individuals are required to work on long term client contracts, and this is not permitted under the sponsorship regime. Also, in some case individuals may be required to work in Ireland or elsewhere in Europe at short notice.  If you do not currently have the right to work in the UK we will still consider your application.  

If your application is successful beyond the first interview stage we will consider whether sponsorship is a possibility or, where appropriate, whether there are any other immigration options available but unfortunately we cannot guarantee that sponsorship will always be possible.

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