Client Project Accountant

• Facilitate monthly commercial review meetings with key stakeholders to improve forecast quality, commercial decision-making, and business performance.
• Provide commercial insight and challenge to support effective business decisions and maximise project profitability.
• Represent Finance in client and engagement meetings, acting as a trusted commercial adviser to delivery and operational teams.
• Build strong working relationships across the business, including client counterparts and third-party partners where appropriate.

• Lead the assurance of business pipeline and revenue forecasts, ensuring information is accurate, reliable and supports strategic decision-making.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate forecasts into actionable business plans.
• Identify commercial risks and opportunities, developing mitigation plans and recommendations to improve performance.

• Lead the month-end billing cycle, ensuring invoices accurately reflect contractual terms and all billable activity is captured.
• Own and maintain the commercial contract register, proactively managing contractual obligations, renewal activity, risks and commercial opportunities.
• Ensure revenue recognition and invoicing activities are accurate, complete and supported by appropriate evidence.

• →Champion and actively contribute to and improve policies, standards, and guidelines through the OOM processes, based on experience and awareness of wider industry best practice and innovations.
• →Play a leading role in the ongoing development of the discipline, driving innovation, best practice adoption, and supporting leads to maintain an energised community of practitioners, taking a leading role in meetings and activities. Motivate and empower practitioners to create a positive and creative culture for our people to perform well, learn and grow.
• →Support the growth of Informed’s capability by helping to recruit staff (interviews, assessments), and contributing to InformedACADEMY© (masterclasses, training), shaping materials to achieve curriculum outcomes.
• →Provide Practitioner Coaching for less experienced practitioners. 

You'll be a qualified accountant with strong commercial acumen and a passion for partnering with the business to drive performance.

• Recognised professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong commercial finance, project accounting or finance business partnering experience.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and challenge constructively at all levels.
• Experience managing forecasts, budgets, revenue recognition and commercial reporting.
• Strong understanding of contract management and project financial controls.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience supporting audits and operating within a robust governance framework.

• Experience within consultancy, professional services, engineering, technology or project-based environments.
• Experience leading process improvement initiatives and driving commercial best practice.
• Previous mentoring or leadership experience within a finance function.

• Able to work effectively in environments where you can adapt to innovative practices involving uncertainty, change, and agile working.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and your time so you can deliver high-quality work within deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to respect and accept different perspectives and disagreement, work collaboratively in diverse teams, and maintain positive working relationships.
• Good judgement and decision-making in complex environments where uncertainty, ambiguity, and risk must be collaboratively managed by working supportively alongside others.
• Good communication skills, including clear, constructive written outputs and measured, respectful verbal delivery.

We work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving innovation and problem-solving workplace environment where no two days are the same. This requires you to have the foundations of personal resilience, professional adaptability, and flexibility in working alongside others with a positive mindset.

We appreciate that this workplace culture and the level of variety won’t suit everyone.  However, after significant consultations with colleagues at all levels, we understand that these are the fundamentals of success in undertaking the complex, innovation work which is the DNA of Informed Solutions.

These shared foundations are important to team cohesion, performance, and mutual personal support.

As colleagues, we thrive in successfully problem solving together to deliver real-world impact; and value the variety of challenges and opportunities to learn, grow, and progress on a personal and professional level.