Project Accountant

The Opportunity

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.

You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.

At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

About Us

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

About the role

Informed Solutions partners with leading public sector bodies and large private sector organisations to deliver innovative, high-impact digital transformation programmes. As Project Accountant you will lead the commercial and project accountancy activities that underpin effective business performance, providing trusted insight across forecasting, billing, revenue, business planning and contract management. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, clients and delivery teams to ensure robust commercial governance, identify risks and opportunities, and support informed decision making, while contributing to financial, quality and client audits. You will help foster a collaborative, high-performing community, sharing knowledge and driving continuous improvement across the discipline. This role offers flexibility to be based from our Altrincham Office (Manchester) where you’ll be part of a collaborative, high-performing team environment, supported by our hybrid working approach.

Key Responsibilities to the Business

• Facilitate monthly commercial review meetings with key stakeholders to improve forecast quality, commercial decision making and performance.
• Lead the month-end billing cycle, ensuring invoices accurately reflect contractual terms and all billable activity is captured.
• Lead the assurance of the business pipeline and revenue forecasts, maintaining accurate information to support commercial decision making.
• Lead business planning activities with key stakeholders, translating forecasts into business plans, identifying commercial risks and opportunities.
• Own the commercial contract register, ensuring contractual obligations, commercial opportunities and key lifecycle events are proactively managed.
• Represent Finance in client and engagement meetings, providing commercial insight to support effective decision making.
• Lead the commercial contribution to financial, quality and client audits, ensuring commercial information, invoicing and revenue recognition are accurate, complete and supported by appropriate evidence.
• Help structure and provide assurance for the work of less experienced practitioners, enabling them to maximise quality and velocity. Monitor the application of the methods and requirements of the Online Operations Manual (OOM) process, pro-actively managing technical risks and issues, identifying improvements and building these into the process.
• Build effective working relationships with other Service Groups, client counterparts where relevant, and those of partner/3rd party organisations.
• Hold a recognised professional accountancy qualification and maintain professional competence through CPD.

Key Responsibilities to the Project Accountancy Discipline

• 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. 

Key requirements

• At least 3 to 5 years of relevant project accountancy experience
• A professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACCA, ACA , CIMA or equivalent)
• Ability to communicate financial data clearly to non-financial stakeholders
• Proficiency with accounting software and financial systems
• Strong financial analysis and reporting skills

Desirable skills

• Experience working across multidisciplinary programme and project teams
• Knowledge of FRS 102 revenue recognition

Key abilities that are necessary for success

• 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.

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• InformedACADEMY™ – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme*
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of. 

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.

*We are hiring for this role across both our Altrincham (Manchester) and Westminster (London) offices, giving you the flexibility to be based in either location while working as part of a collaborative, high-performing team.