Project Accountant

Location:

Glasgow, United Kingdom In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you;

whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
** Project Accountant
**** Glasgow
* *** What the role has to offer
*** Great opportunity to gain experience and further your career in Finance
* Work in an experienced finance team across a broad portfolio of projects within the OME UK business with a robust order backlog that supports sustainable growth of 10% CAGR across the next 5 years
* Opportunity to enhance the financial control environment within span of control and to ensure that best practice ways of working are adopted
* Opportunity to engage with multiple stakeholders across the project, functions and other parts of Thales UK
* Opportunity to work in a fast paced, exciting and dynamic environment
* Ability to drive continuous improvement
** Our Opportunity:
** Thales UK currently have an exciting opportunity for Project Accountant to join OME UK. The OME business includes a wide and varied portfolio of products and projects including complex product development, systems integration, product manufacturing and service support projects. The role will support objectives of the overall Optronics & Missile Electronics (OME UK) business but will take responsibility for a portfolio of projects, primarily across the Sea, Air and Land sectors.

Where appropriate the Project Accountant will become the primary financial contact for those projects and become a key member of those project delivery teams.  On larger and more complex projects the Project Accountant will support the relevant Business Controller.
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* About the role:

*** Ensure that forecast orders, sales and invoicing are updated on a regular basis including identifying R&O’s monthly
* Assist in the completion of the Program Dashboards and CSRs
* Monitor project expenditure and delivery with a tight focus on cash milestones.
* Support Programme Managers to understand actual costs incurred.
* Support Programme Managers to ensure costs to completion estimates and estimates at completion (EAC) for programmes are correctly reflected
* Monitor, report and control projects balance sheet and working capital.
* Play an active part in the reconciliation of project costs within oracle and manage monthly reconciliations
* Undertake key activities as part of the monthly close activities, ensuring the accuracy of results.
* Monitor and maintain data quality, consistency and integrity across primary systems within span of control.
* Maintain and enhance the financial control environment, ensuring that all areas of the Balance sheet within span of control are accurate, robustly challenged and recoverable.
* Support the relevant sector Business Controllers in preparation of annual budgets (MYB) and forecasts
* Participate as required in bid process and support commercial on claims / additional tasks
** About You
**** The following skills and experience will set you up for success in this role:
*** A good understanding of commercial and financial aspects of the business
* Proven project accounting experience within defence, aerospace, engineering or an equivalent sector.
* Be comfortable working with ambiguity and proposing solutions to complex issues
* Be able to present and explain the implication of…