Project Accountant

IN2 is an award-winning specialist communications, development, and research company dedicated to creating positive change for communities in rapidly changing environments. We use innovative and engaging two-way communications to create impact across the full spectrum of geo-political and socio-economic issues, including global security, international development, business transformation, and climate change.

IN2 combines a global geopolitical outlook with a rich understanding of local grassroots sentiment to help clients develop, deliver, and measure engagement campaigns that connect our clients with their intended audiences in a language, manner, and medium that feels natural to them.

With our track record of delivering culturally sensitive campaigns in challenging and higher-risk environments around the world, IN2 has become a trusted partner and advisor to a range of clients from national governments and transnational institutions to global brands and international NGOs.

IN2 has offices in the UK, UAE, Jordan, Iraq, Poland, and Kenya.

IN2’s professionally and culturally diverse 180-strong staff hail from 20 countries. We are committed to diversity in our workplace.

The Project Accountant plays a pivotal role in driving strategic financial decisions and managing project life cycles. This position is responsible for building, maintaining, and analyzing financial information to produce a pricing budget. Additionally, the role ensures strict project financial controls, tracking milestones, managing project cash flows, and delivering variance analysis to senior leadership.

• Financial Modeling:
  Develop, simulate, and refine complex pricing models, Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS), and Bills of Quantities (BOQ) tailored to specific RFPs/RFQs.
• Margin Optimization:
  Perform margin and sensitivity analyses to balancing competitive, market-driven pricing with company profitability targets.
• Commercial Strategy:
  Collaborate with executive leadership and account managers to define optimal commercial structures (e.g., Fixed-Price, Time & Materials, Unit Rate, or Performance-Based).
• Financial Assessment:
  Critically review client tender documents to identify commercial risks, financial requirements, bonding/insurance constraints, and hidden costs.
• Compliance Matrix:
  Ensure 100% adherence to all commercial guidelines, client formats, currencies, tax regulations, and submission templates.
• Go/No-Go Evaluation:
  Provide financial feasibility inputs during initial deal qualification phases.
• Cost Input Gathering:
  Coordinate with internal stakeholders to accurately validate labor, material, equipment, and sub-consultant costs.
• Vendor & Supply Chain Alignment:
  Partner with Procurement to incorporate external vendor quotes and sub-contractor pricing into the bid framework.
• Commercial Governance:
  Lead the internal financial review and sign-off processes with executive stakeholders prior to final client submission
• Risk Mitigation:
  Document all commercial assumptions, dependencies, exclusions, and financial contingency plans to isolate and hedge operational risks.

• Cost Management:
  Monitor and analyze end-to-end project financial performance against established budgets, baselines, and commercial contracts.
• Revenue Recognition:
  Produce monthly invoices for customers / fund requests for Grants
• Variance Analysis:
  Conduct monthly variance analysis of actual vs. budgeted project costs, identifying risks, cost overruns, and mitigations.

• Performance Dashboards:
  Prepare monthly financial report packs, project dashboards for project managers and leadership.
• Cross-Functional Alignment:
  Partner closely with…