Finance Specialist – Project & Contract Accounting UK

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Finance Specialist – Project & Contract Accounting UK

Location UK Onshore: Hybrid with occasional travel to Office when required for team meetings

**SC Clearance is a requirement for this role**

Are you able to provide exceptional quality finance support and guidance some of Fujitsu’s most strategic customer account teams? Can you support business performance whilst ensuring integrity of the reported orders, revenues, margins and balance sheet across multiple project portfolios? Do you want to shape your world and change the way the world works? Do you want to collaborate and achieve together with committed people to provide end-to-end finance support for these critical customers? This is your world and your opportunity to shape it for the better.

Shape your world

We are looking for a Management Accountant to work in Fujitsu Finance UK Project and Contract Accounting team. Initially you would be supporting strategic customer accounts in our Public Sector Business Line, notably Home Office and Shared Service Connect Limited (SSCL). Your role will involve:

• Ownership of full financials including preparation and presentation of month end actuals – providing variance analysis and flash commentary to Account Delivery Executives and their teams
• Responsibility for all internal and external reporting on actuals, quarterly forecasts and Account lifetime views
• Focus is on Contract accounting experience, ability to challenge Delivery Execs and Service Managers on their financials
• Responsibility for all internal reporting into Public Sector Finance Business Partners
• Financial modelling and decision support during commercial negotiations over the lifetime of the Contracts
• Assisting the service delivery teams to identify and track cost savings and understand variances to the original contracted baseline
• Working with Account teams to define appropriate accounting treatments for various adhoc contractual change controls.
• Working with Project Managers to consolidate churn project financials into Account Financials
• Getting involved in continuous improvement plans on our ERP system S4HANA (implemented in Apr-22)
• Participating in cross functional project groups to help improve the Finance function
• Collaboration with and leading of deliverables from Churn Project finance support person if assigned

Your experience

• CIMA / ACCA qualified with experience of providing business support (newly qualified or qualified by experience acceptable)
• Motivated individual with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal skills – able to communicate effectively
• Confidence to communicate and challenge senior finance and operational leadership teams
• Good organisational skills with ability to work to tight deadlines and possessing strong attention to detail
• Excellent IT Skills including Excel
• IT Services or contract accounting experience desirable
• SAP S4 Hana ERP experience desirable
• Must have SC Clearance

Shape your world and achieve together

We want the best people on our team, so we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all. If you want to work alongside people with different ideas, in an inclusive business, that will welcome you and support you, come and co-create the future at Fujitsu.

Fujitsu has been recognized as a Disability Confident Leader by the Department of Work and Pensions. This is in recognition of our commitment to recruiting, retaining, and employing people with disabilities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer a guaranteed interview to all candidates with disabilities who meet the essential criteria for a role and are experienced at making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• Flexitime

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Work Location: One location