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Secretarial & Business Support

 
 

Engineering Management Accountant

Newport • Permanent • £24000 - £28000

 

About our client:

My client is a large successful business looking for someone to join the growing management accounts team as an Engineering Management Accountant near Newport.

Page Personnel is a subsidiary of Michael Page International and specialises in the permanent and temporary recruitment of locally residing finance professionals.

Description:

You will be required to supply support to the project manager by preparing reports for senior management review at regular monthly meetings.

  • Manage the financial aspects of the projects within the project system module of SAP
  • Prepare reports for management review
  • Liaise with project managers to maintain and review sales and margin forecasts and project costs to completion
  • Prepare monthly contract status reports
  • Ensure compliance with finance policy
  • Work with engineers to prepare and review capital business cases
  • Review Engineering hours bookings, correct error logs and provide support to managers to ensure contractual obligations on hours achieved.  

Profile:

The successful applicant will be

  • Part qualified
  • Ideally have project accounting experience
  • Experience of Capital accounting
  • Have knowledge of SAP specifically in the project systems area would be an advantage
  • Previous experience of project accounting
  • Strong IT skills in Microsoft Office
  • Knowledge of Life Cycle management would be an advantage
  • Ability to work on own initiative
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Proven track record of working to deadlines
  • Ability to explain finance and SAP to non financial people
  • Confidence to present information to an audience and senior management

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents.

What's on offer

Excellent rates of pay + study support

Free parking

Good holidays

  • Reference: 6028003
  • Published on: 29/01/2012
  • Location: Newport
  • Contract type: Permanent
  • Remuneration: £24000 - £28000
  • Contact tel: 02920 643 480