Commercial Project Accountant

About IN2

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.

Commercial Project Accountant

The Project Accountant plays a pivotal role in driving strategic financial decisions and managing project lifecycles. 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.

Responsibilities:

Pricing

• Version Control: Establish and maintain strict version control protocols (v1.0, v1.1, v2.0) and change logs to track edits, code modifications, and structural updates over time.
• Integrity Auditing: Implement automated audit checks, balance sheet balancing alerts, and error-trapping cells (ISERROR, IFERROR) across all tabs to ensure zero structural breaks.
• Strategic Support: Translate complex operational datasets into clear financial budgets that will deliver best estimate pricing for potential bids

Project Accounting & Control

• Cost Management: Monitor and analyze end-to-end project financial performance against established budgets, baselines, and commercial contracts.
• Revenue Recognition: Oversee project accounting structures, ensuring compliance with IFRS 15 (Revenue from Contracts with Customers) or relevant accounting standards.
• Variance Analysis: Conduct monthly variance analysis of actual vs. budgeted project costs, identifying risks, cost overruns, and mitigations.
• Cash Flow Optimization: Forecast project cash flows, track progress billings, manage working capital requirements, and ensure timely invoicing and collections.

Reporting & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Performance Dashboards: Prepare monthly financial report packs, project dashboards for project managers and leadership.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with Project Managers and General Finance teams to validate assumptions and keep financial plans aligned with project execution.
• Audit Support: Assist with internal and external audit requirements by providing clear documentation, model assumptions, and reconciliations for project accounts.

Qualifications:

• Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Certifications: Professional certification such as CPA, ACCA, CMA, CFA, or specialized Financial Modelling certification (e.g., FMI) is highly preferred.
• Experience: 3-5 years of progressive experience combining modelling, pricing and project finance.

• Advanced Excel: Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VBA/macros, dynamic arrays, advanced financial functions, and data visual tools).
• Systems Experience: Hands-on experience with project management financial tools.
• Financial Literacy: Strong technical understanding of corporate finance theories, accounting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP), and financial statements.
• Analytical Thinking: Exceptional problem-solving skills with a meticulous eye for detail.
• Communication: Ability to distill complex financial concepts into easily understandable insights for non-finance stakeholders.
• Time Management: Ability to thrive under tight deadlines and simultaneously manage multiple project deliverables.
• Technical Translation: Translate complex financial projections, Excel logic, and accounting variances into clear, actionable commercial insights for non-finance teams (e.g., Project Managers, Engineers, and Procurement).
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner seamlessly with multi-disciplinary project leaders to extract operational data, challenge baseline assumptions, and build consensus on budget adjustments.
• Influencing & Negotiation: Present analytical findings confidently to support commercial negotiations, contractor discussions, and project variance approvals
• Global Collaboration: Maintain a professional, collaborative demeanor across diverse multinational teams, ensuring clear verbal and written communication across all tiers of the organization.

IN2 is committed to hiring the best talent. As a company, it is proud of its diverse and inclusive workforce and so we welcome applications from all professional and cultural backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or religion.