Accounts & Project Coordinator

Let's be clear upfront:

This is a hands-on accounts role. Most of your week will be spent in the detail: invoices, purchase orders, timesheets, fortnightly pays and making sure the numbers line up.

If you love a clean reconciliation, get real satisfaction from tracking down the last missing PO, and want a part-time role where you can fit work around your life, you may be exactly who we're looking for.

We're a fast-growing electrical engineering consultancy (having made the AFR Fast Starters list last year) with more projects, more clients and more invoices going out each month.

• Own the monthly invoicing cycle
• Keep purchase orders, timesheets and invoices matched
• Run our fortnightly pays end to end
• Keep bank reconciliations and expenses up to date
• Follow up payments politely and persistently
• Give our project managers a clear picture of where each project sits financially

This role works alongside our Operations Manager and Directors, and closely with our project teams.

• Flexible part-time hours: 20 hours a week, arranged to suit you. We are flexible!
• A six-month fixed-term role with a real path to permanent beyond that
• Remote but never distant: a collaborative team that works together well, wherever we are
• Direct access to our founders
• Space and support to grow

If you're doing this role well:

• Invoices go out on time each month
• Everyone is getting paid
• Project managers know where their POs and budgets sit without having to ask
• You've taken on more than you started with, like reporting and project admin, because you've shown you can

• End to end management of our monthly invoicing process.
• Track payments and follow up overdue accounts
• Process supplier and subcontractor invoices
• Paying everyone!
• Complete regular bank reconciliations, including expenses
• Keep our purchase order register up to date
• Track PO values and remaining budget across projects
• Help with procurement onboarding processes

You'll likely thrive here if you:

• Have experience in accounts, or interest in financial management and organisation
• Have a basic understanding of financials and are comfortable in Excel
• Notice the detail and like things to reconcile
• Are comfortable following up clients about money
• Work independently and manage your own week
• Can work easily with everyone from engineers to client accounts teams
• Want part-time hours that fit around the rest of your life

This role will frustrate you if:

• You want pure bookkeeping with no contact with project teams or clients
• Following up overdue invoices or missing paperwork makes you uncomfortable
• You'd rather follow a fixed process than help shape a better one
• 5 weeks annual leave as standard (pro rata)
• Time off in lieu or paid overtime as standard (get paid for all hours worked)
• Predominantly work from home, with a real emphasis on family coming first
• 4 weeks full pay for parental leave (partner/secondary carer)
• Be part of a rapidly expanding team of innovators

We'll be upfront about the steps so there are no surprises:

SPRK Consultants is a creative hub for electrical engineers, pushing the boundaries of industry norms and reimagining workplace culture. We create solutions using emerging technologies to serve our collaborators' vision. Our company values giving back, both locally and globally.