Project Accountant

Job Description

Project Accountant – 9 Month FTC

Location Commutable distance to Winchester / London with a view to being on-site at least twice a week.

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Total Package  

• £40-£50k salary
• 10% bonus
• 6% pension contribution
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture
  
  

We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Project Accountant to join our team at Arqiva. In this role, you will manage financial records, support project governance, and collaborate with various teams to ensure accurate financial reporting and insightful analysis. If you have a strong background in management or project accounting and excellent communication skills, we invite you to apply and contribute to our innovative projects in broadcasting and utilities.

The role

• Deliver accurate and complete project accounting records to comply with accepted accounting policies and principles. Ensure appropriate governance on project spend running / supporting ERM as allocated.
• Prepare, maintain and reconcile project ledger accounts. Perform accounting for Digital Technology within the Enterprise portfolio, working with the Head of Finance – Capex, Opex and Technology and the Finance Manager – Tech & Capex and the Enterprise Delivery Management Prinicpal and Project Managers to finalise the monthly financial results and insight / commentary.
• Produce comprehensive and timely Balance Sheet reconciliations for all project module reconciliations, adopting standard approach with detailed understanding of the ledger balances, their contents and how they unwind.
• Support the Enablement team through financial review of Capex investment cases.
• Calculate the monthly depreciation accrual for completed projects yet to be capitalised
• Support the Reporting and Continuous Improvement (CI) team to identify and address month-end / transaction process issues, adopting a CI approach
• Work with the Reporting team to identify material erroneous transactions for the reporting team to address with the originating business users
• Support financial forecasting and budgeting processes with functional area analysis . Provide support to internal and external auditors as required
  
  

The person

• Significant experience in Management Accounting, Project Accounting, Analyst role
• Significant experience in communicating at different levels
• Working knowledge of EBS, EPM and Smartview
• It would be desirable if you have a working knowledge of QilkSense
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Working knowledge of financial controls and reconciliation processes
  
  

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.   

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us. 

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work. 

Our focus for 2025 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply!