Project Accounting Lead

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