Head of Project Accounting

Role: Head of Project Accounting

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 (dependent on experience) plus company benefits

Location: Sunbury, Surrey (Kinly operate a hybrid working arrangement allowing for a mix of office and home working)

**Please note we will not be engaging any recruitment agency for this hire**

Kinly is a unified global leader in collaboration, systems integration, and managed services. We focus on transforming workspaces, simplifying complexity, and empowering people. Our in-house expertise includes AI-powered room monitoring, 24/7 support, and a unique enterprise service layer, enabling us to operate with even greater agility, efficiency, and precision.

As we continue to grow and expand, we have a new opportunity for a proven project accountant to enhance and develop the Project Accounting team as we embark on integration following acquisition and ERP migration.

Working in a growing multinational PE backed organization, the role manages one direct report and is responsible for the circa £70m of Project Revenue across 9 entities, with circa 400 active projects. 

Reporting into the Group Financial Controller and working closely with the Operations Director, the perfect candidate will hit the ground running, taking ownership of a busy month-end schedule and play a pivotal role in the ERP migration project. 

Key responsibilities:

• Ensuring all Project Accounting Team month-end activities are completed in line with group financial reporting deadlines

• Provide critical Business Partner Support to the Operations team and deliver insightful reporting

• Reconciliation of all project related balance sheet accounts, ensuring reconciled on a timely basis

• Enhancing the analysis and reporting of monthly figures, providing variance analysis vs budget, forecast and prior year

• Responsible for financial reporting of supplier rebates. Liaising with purchasing team to ensure accurate accruals are fully collectable

• Calculation and presentation of Forward Order Book to the Finance Director monthly

• Production of the monthly utilisation statistics - working with operations to ensure accurate and maximise utilization.

• Ensuring Time Sheets are posted on a weekly basis and supporting operation to ensure timely and accurate reporting of time

• Responsible for weekly management reporting including KPI’s, Accrued Revenue and Working Capital

• Building relationships with other departments to ensure systems and processes allow accurate, appropriate and complete information to flow into the Project Accounting Team

• Assist in line with group budgeting cycles.

Skills and experience:

• Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA with at least 3 years PQE

• Desire and drive to improve systems and process

• Ability to work under own initiative, bringing own ideas

• Ability to dig into the detail whilst maintaining a high-level view to effectively problem solve

• Effectively manage, support and develop team

• Ability to explain financial matters firmly and clearly to non-financial people

• Strong attention to detail as well as having the ability to consider materiality of transactions

• Advanced IT skills, particularly Excel with the ability to manage large volumes of data

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.

If you do require details of the vacancy or the application process in an alternative format, please email jobs@kinly.com outlining your requirements.

Equal Opportunities:

Kinly is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, age, gender identity, pregnancy, colour, race, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, religion or any other ‘protected characteristics. We welcome your application.