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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