Project Accountant

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Southport / Liverpool / Hybrid

Hybrid working available – with the flexibility to work from home and collaborate in‑office when needed. We believe we offer our colleagues the best hybrid and flexible working practices, balancing working from home with time collaborating and socialising with colleagues in our modern offices.

Are you ready to Shape the Financial Success of High-Impact Projects and M&A?

We are seeking a commercially minded Project Accountant to play a pivotal role in shaping the financial success of our most significant projects and acquisitions. Reporting to the Director of Project Finance, this role sits at the heart of strategic decision‑making, providing robust financial insight across project forecasting, M&A viability, and post‑acquisition performance.

As the business continues to scale, you will work closely with Transformation, Integration and Executive Leadership teams, ensuring financial rigour, strong governance and confidence in WIP valuation. This is a high‑impact role for a qualified accountant who thrives in a fast‑paced, change‑driven environment and enjoys influencing outcomes at senior level.

• Proactive, commercially minded and solutions focused.
• Confident in challenging assumptions and influencing decisions.
• Able to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Collaborative working style with strong stakeholder engagement skills.

• 35 hours working week
• Bonus scheme (subject to targets being met)
• 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days’ holiday per year, until you long service award the 3 days after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment
• Pension scheme with tax‑efficient salary sacrifice option
• Life Assurance Policy
• Medicash policy to cover some dental, optical and other medical expenses
• Company sick pay
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and IVF schemes
• Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work‑life balance
• Varied calendar of funded company social events (check out Fletchers Group on Linked In)
• Monthly voucher awards for winning nominees
• A genuinely supportive and friendly culture
• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities

• Build robust financial models to evaluate the viability, returns and risks of new projects and acquisition targets prior to approval.
• Prepare scenario modelling (base, best, and worst case) and sensitivity analysis, including acquisition specific assumptions.
• Support business case and investment committee submissions with evidence‑led financial insight and recommendations.
• Assess long‑term financial impacts of projects and acquisitions to ensure alignment with Group strategy, capacity and capital constraints.
• Provide financial analysis to support project and acquisition prioritisation and investment decisions.

• Lead the financial tracking and reporting of assigned projects and acquisitions, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and control.
• Maintain project and acquisition budgets, forecasts, and cash‑flow projections.
• Monitor performance against plan, highlighting variances, risks, opportunities, and emerging issues.
• Track, validate, and report on post‑acquisition synergies in close collaboration with the Integration team, ensuring benefits realisation is clearly understood and governed.
• Ensure financial processes and controls are adhered to throughout the project and acquisition lifecycle.
• Provide insightful financial analysis and reporting to senior stakeholders.

• Conduct internal WIP audits, ensuring accuracy, compliance and confidence in WIP valuation as the business scales.
• Ensure financial processes and controls are adhered to.

• Act as the financial partner to Project Managers, Integration leads, and senior stakeholders.
• Attend project, integration and investment meetings, providing expert financial input and challenge where appropriate.
• Provide insightful WIP financial analysis and reporting to…