Project Accountant

Posted 05 June 2019
Salary £250 - £300 per day
Location
Job type Contract
Discipline Accounting & Finance
ReferenceSRPA_1559746345
Contact NameSherine Rose

Job description

Our client is an exciting real estate businesses that we deal with based London. They are looking for a Project Accountant to join for 6-9 months.

Principal duties and responsibilities

  • Accounting and regular reporting for a range of projects and joint ventures, including reviewing information produced by JVs or other external parties
  • Liaising with joint venture, funding partners, external auditors and attending regular project team meetings
  • Working, advising and business partnering with the internal project teams
  • Working with the real estate teams to update and maintain cash flow models and reconciliations to ledgers on a monthly basis, including calculation of development and trading gains, profit shares and bonus calculations
  • Provide input in the annual statutory reporting process managed by the Operations team, including the preparation of consolidated accounts and calculating the businesses share of JV companies
  • Responsible for development drawdowns, including equity and loan requests for development facilities and forward funded projects
  • Supervising and reviewing the work of other Project Accountants and helping to raising the productivity and performance of the Project team
  • Transactional support and managing cash in and outflows for acquisitions and disposals, together with the administration of setting up new companies
  • Taking ownership of the financial aspects of projects, reviewing trial balances for companies on a monthly basis, budgeting and responsibility for delivering the group 15-month cash flow, including cash flow and profit projections

Person Specification

  • Straight from practice/ audit candidate ONLY!
  • Commercial real estate experience with proven post qualified experience in the real estate industry
  • Good technical accounting knowledge in respect of real estate