Senior Specialist – Project Accounting

Senior Specialist – Project Accounting

The role sits within the Finance Business Partnering function reporting to the Discipline Financial Controller (DFC). Primary stakeholders include members of the Discipline’s leadership team such as Regional and Service Line Directors.

Key Purpose

The purpose of this role is to provide proactive financial oversight and support across the project lifecycle, ensuring robust project hygiene, accurate reporting, and strong stakeholder engagement. The role serves as a key point of contact for project managers—delivering training, troubleshooting, and guidance to improve financial awareness and project compliance. Through regular project reviews and insightful reporting, the role identifies projects requiring attention and collaborates with cross-functional teams, including billing support, to drive corrective actions. Ultimately, the position supports the delivery of financially sound, well-governed projects through enhanced visibility, engagement, and operational discipline.

Core Accountabilities

• Work towards compliance with NI 52-109 for all Project Finance controls in an Oracle environment
• Provide Internal Audit support
• Review processes and suggest improvements
• Analysis of Working capital for various businesses/ projects
• Perform Project reviews and timely identification of risks and opportunities.
• Comparison of actuals vs budgets /forecasts and identifying reasons for variations
• Contribute to delivering Business Unit P&L, annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Coordination with different team members including project leaders, business partners and GBS
• Review of various reports like utilization reports, time cost reports, etc. and reaching logical conclusions
• Analyzing the cost to complete of different projects
• Good understanding of the business and analyzing the numbers based on the business understanding
• Provide ad-hoc reporting and reconciliations as required
• Preparing and finalizing reports pertaining to various projects for Global reporting
• Reviewing and carrying out project wise, Business Unit wise cost & margin analysis and providing reasons for the erosion/ gain of margins

Personal Attributes

• Full accountancy qualification with a recognized organization (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
• Experience of finance business partnering, supporting a variety of senior stakeholders.
• Confident in communicating at all levels of the organization
• Committed to enhancing collaboration across organizational boundaries
• Committed to continuous improvement and lifelong learning
• Familiar with working in collaboration with shared services teams