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Project Accountant - Internal Applicants only
Sector: Finance and Accounts, Project and Program Management Role: Specialist Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full Time Summary We are the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.
We are currently seeking a focused individual to join our finance team as a Project Accountant to help with financial management and reporting of the organisation. This will be particularly focused around acting as a project accountant and finance lead for a number of significant and high profile projects, ensuring that the project boards have a good understanding of their financial position and helping them to manage the projects to a good outcome.
This is a Full Time, Permanent post based in Swindon with hybrid working.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive
pension scheme starting at 28% employer contributions,
a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.
To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.
What you will be doing You will act as senior finance lead for a number of complex and high-profile projects, including interacting with very senior stakeholders. You will be the manager for the actual spend on multiple high value projects, totalling a significant portion of HE's total annual budget, analysing variances to accurately explain to both the project team and external funders how the project is progressing.
You will robustly defend your position as part of a team of strong personalities and competing agendas in a pressurised environment, managing the forecasting of future spend, to ensure that projects stay within budget or that corrective actions can be taken in a timely manner, despite pressures from other team members to accept inflationary pressures or permit scope creep.
The role is responsible for the development of detailed business cases to secure significant amounts of additional funding for new and existing projects, both internal and external. You will account for large and complex capital projects to ensure spend is appropriately capitalised, managing accruals and prepayments at year end so the project is reflected appropriately in the year end accounts.
You will develop options and "what if" scenarios to help the project team make optimal decisions for the organisation, prepare reports for project boards, which will often include very senior people and act as the voice of finance on the project, ensuring that spend is kept within agreed limits and procurement rules are followed.
You will help develop HE's spending review pack for DCMS and Treasury, assist in other roles across the FBP team as required, and ensure that our legal obligations and the expectations set out in our policies are met, including health & safety, equality & diversity, finance, procurement, information security and managing people.
Who we are looking for At least part-qualified CCAB accountant or equivalent IT literate and proficient with Excel (pivot tables, lookups etc) Experience of working on complex and high value / high profile projects (Project Management) Experience of reporting to very senior stakeholders, and how to deal with the communications issues arising from this (communications) Experience of working with Variance analysis and Sensitivity Analysis Forecasting and Capital Accounting Experience We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to ensure our working arrangements don't prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.
We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.
Why work for Historic England We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.
Historic England wants all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.
At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.
To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone, the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.
Provisional interview dates: week commencing 03rd February 2025
Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description .
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Sector: Finance and Accounts, Project and Program Management Role: Specialist Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full Time Summary We are the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.
We are currently seeking a focused individual to join our finance team as a Project Accountant to help with financial management and reporting of the organisation. This will be particularly focused around acting as a project accountant and finance lead for a number of significant and high profile projects, ensuring that the project boards have a good understanding of their financial position and helping them to manage the projects to a good outcome.
This is a Full Time, Permanent post based in Swindon with hybrid working.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive
pension scheme starting at 28% employer contributions,
a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.
To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.
What you will be doing You will act as senior finance lead for a number of complex and high-profile projects, including interacting with very senior stakeholders. You will be the manager for the actual spend on multiple high value projects, totalling a significant portion of HE's total annual budget, analysing variances to accurately explain to both the project team and external funders how the project is progressing.
You will robustly defend your position as part of a team of strong personalities and competing agendas in a pressurised environment, managing the forecasting of future spend, to ensure that projects stay within budget or that corrective actions can be taken in a timely manner, despite pressures from other team members to accept inflationary pressures or permit scope creep.
The role is responsible for the development of detailed business cases to secure significant amounts of additional funding for new and existing projects, both internal and external. You will account for large and complex capital projects to ensure spend is appropriately capitalised, managing accruals and prepayments at year end so the project is reflected appropriately in the year end accounts.
You will develop options and "what if" scenarios to help the project team make optimal decisions for the organisation, prepare reports for project boards, which will often include very senior people and act as the voice of finance on the project, ensuring that spend is kept within agreed limits and procurement rules are followed.
You will help develop HE's spending review pack for DCMS and Treasury, assist in other roles across the FBP team as required, and ensure that our legal obligations and the expectations set out in our policies are met, including health & safety, equality & diversity, finance, procurement, information security and managing people.
Who we are looking for At least part-qualified CCAB accountant or equivalent IT literate and proficient with Excel (pivot tables, lookups etc) Experience of working on complex and high value / high profile projects (Project Management) Experience of reporting to very senior stakeholders, and how to deal with the communications issues arising from this (communications) Experience of working with Variance analysis and Sensitivity Analysis Forecasting and Capital Accounting Experience We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to ensure our working arrangements don't prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.
We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.
Why work for Historic England We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.
Historic England wants all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.
At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.
To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone, the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.
Provisional interview dates: week commencing 03rd February 2025
Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description .
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