Job Description
Role Summary The Group Accountant will provide comprehensive financial management, control, and strategic accounting oversight across the organization’s portfolio of businesses, projects, and ventures. The role extends beyond traditional accounting to function as a trusted financial advisor to leadership, ensuring that all initiatives are financially viable, well-structured, appropriately funded, and commercially sustainable.
Operating within a multi-business, high-growth environment that includes ongoing operations, pilots, and new ventures, the Group Accountant will oversee financial activities from project and venture initiation through execution and close-out. The role embeds strong financial governance, transparency, and insight at every stage, ensuring compliance with internal policies, contractual or donor/client requirements (where applicable), and relevant accounting standards.
Key Responsibilities
• Prepare accurate and timely project financial reports, including revenue, cost, margin, profitability, budget variance, and cash flow updates.
• Develop project budgets, forecasts, financial plans, and periodic reforecasts in collaboration with project managers and leadership.
• Track project financial performance, monitor budget utilization, identify variances, and flag financial risks, overruns, or inefficiencies early.
• Build and review financial models for new projects, pilots, and ventures, including profitability, break-even, cash flow, and risk scenarios.
• Provide commercial finance support to leadership, including pricing, costing, feasibility analysis, and go/no-go recommendations for new initiatives.
• Maintain accurate accounting records, reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and proper cost allocation across projects and business lines.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting policies, audit requirements, and applicable financial reporting standards.
• Monitor project-level cash flow, support payment processing, track receivables, and advise on payment terms and funding implications.
• Develop clear dashboards, financial summaries, and management reports that translate financial data into practical business insights.
• Act as a finance partner to project teams, operations, and senior leadership by supporting planning, execution reviews, close-out processes, and strategic decision-making.
Candidate Requirements
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent) is strongly preferred.
• Experience & Technical Skills
• Minimum of 5–7 years’ experience in project accounting, management accounting, or commercial finance roles.
• Proven experience supporting multiple projects or business lines simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and financial analysis.
• Experience assessing financial viability of projects, investments, or new ventures.
• Solid working knowledge of accounting standards and internal control frameworks.
• Proficiency in accounting systems and financial tools (ERP systems, Excel/Sheets, dashboards).
• Experience preparing reports for senior management or boards is an advantage.
Core Competencies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Commercial acumen and business-minded thinking.
• Attention to detail with the ability to see the “big picture”.
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively using financial data.
• Strong communication skills — able to explain finance clearly to non-finance teams.
Operating within a multi-business, high-growth environment that includes ongoing operations, pilots, and new ventures, the Group Accountant will oversee financial activities from project and venture initiation through execution and close-out. The role embeds strong financial governance, transparency, and insight at every stage, ensuring compliance with internal policies, contractual or donor/client requirements (where applicable), and relevant accounting standards.
Key Responsibilities
• Prepare accurate and timely project financial reports, including revenue, cost, margin, profitability, budget variance, and cash flow updates.
• Develop project budgets, forecasts, financial plans, and periodic reforecasts in collaboration with project managers and leadership.
• Track project financial performance, monitor budget utilization, identify variances, and flag financial risks, overruns, or inefficiencies early.
• Build and review financial models for new projects, pilots, and ventures, including profitability, break-even, cash flow, and risk scenarios.
• Provide commercial finance support to leadership, including pricing, costing, feasibility analysis, and go/no-go recommendations for new initiatives.
• Maintain accurate accounting records, reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and proper cost allocation across projects and business lines.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting policies, audit requirements, and applicable financial reporting standards.
• Monitor project-level cash flow, support payment processing, track receivables, and advise on payment terms and funding implications.
• Develop clear dashboards, financial summaries, and management reports that translate financial data into practical business insights.
• Act as a finance partner to project teams, operations, and senior leadership by supporting planning, execution reviews, close-out processes, and strategic decision-making.
Candidate Requirements
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• Professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent) is strongly preferred.
• Experience & Technical Skills
• Minimum of 5–7 years’ experience in project accounting, management accounting, or commercial finance roles.
• Proven experience supporting multiple projects or business lines simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and financial analysis.
• Experience assessing financial viability of projects, investments, or new ventures.
• Solid working knowledge of accounting standards and internal control frameworks.
• Proficiency in accounting systems and financial tools (ERP systems, Excel/Sheets, dashboards).
• Experience preparing reports for senior management or boards is an advantage.
Core Competencies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Commercial acumen and business-minded thinking.
• Attention to detail with the ability to see the “big picture”.
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively using financial data.
• Strong communication skills — able to explain finance clearly to non-finance teams.
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