Reporting Project Accountant (9 month FTC)

Imagine playing a key role in strengthening the financial foundations of a diverse and growing hospitality business. As Reporting Project Accountant (9-Month Fixed-Term Contract) , you'll join us at an exciting time, helping to enhance the quality, consistency and control of our financial reporting across our hotel, QSR and care businesses. Reporting to the Director of Financial Reporting, you'll lead a critical project to review, streamline and formalise balance sheet reconciliation processes across the Group. You'll assess the current reconciliation landscape, identify opportunities for improvement and implement a robust, scalable framework that supports accuracy, compliance and confidence in our financial reporting. Working closely with colleagues across transactional finance, management accounting and reporting teams, you'll build strong relationships, drive best practice and help embed new ways of working that deliver lasting improvements across the business. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys combining technical accounting expertise with project delivery, process improvement and stakeholder collaboration. As a Reporting Project Accountant, you'll make a tangible impact on how we operate, helping to create stronger controls, greater consistency and more effective financial reporting across Splendid Hospitality Group. This is a hybrid role, requiring you to be based at our Watford Head Office 3–4 days per week. What You Will Do In This Splendid Role This is a hands-on project role where you'll have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the way we manage and control our financial reporting processes across the Group. Lead process improvement – Review and streamline our existing balance sheet reconciliation processes, identifying risks, control gaps and opportunities to strengthen financial governance. Build a robust reconciliation framework – Design and implement a consistent, scalable approach to balance sheet reconciliations across our hotel, QSR and care businesses. Own key reconciliations – Take responsibility for reconciling control accounts, ensuring all balance sheet items are accurate, fully supported and reconciled in a timely manner. Investigate and resolve outstanding or unreconciled items. Collaborate across finance teams – Work closely with transactional finance and management accounting teams to embed new processes, ensure consistency and drive adoption of best practice. Drive automation and efficiency – Identify opportunities to improve and automate reconciliation activities, reducing manual effort while strengthening controls and reporting accuracy. Create tools and documentation – Develop templates, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and supporting documentation that provide clear guidance and create a sustainable framework for the future. Support audit activities – Provide ad hoc support during statutory audits, ensuring reconciliations and supporting documentation are accurate, complete and readily available. Deliver lasting change – Help establish stronger controls, improved governance and more efficient ways of working that continue to add value long after the project is complete. What Makes You Splendid We're looking for someone who combines strong technical accounting expertise with a passion for process improvement and financial controls. You'll bring: Proven experience as a Project Accountant, Financial Accountant or similar . Experience managing complex, high-volume balance sheet reconciliations and resolving discrepancies. A track record of delivering process improvements, finance transformation or automation initiatives . Strong Excel skills , including lookups, SUMIFs and working with large datasets. A solid understanding of financial reporting standards and internal controls . Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders across the business. Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to deliver to tight deadlines. Part-qualified or fully qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA , or equivalent experience. Desirable Experience within hospitality, QSR, leisure, retail or other multi-site businesses . Experience training or supporting finance teams through process and system changes. We live by our values, and we'd love you to bring them to life every day: Nimble – Adapts quickly to changing priorities, balancing project delivery with business needs in a fast-paced environment. Honest – Champions accuracy, strong controls and transparency, ensuring financial information can be trusted and relied upon. Brilliant – Brings a continuous improvement mindset, identifying opportunities to strengthen processes, automate tasks and enhance reporting quality. Open – Collaborates effectively across finance teams, sharing knowledge, building trusted relationships and supporting others through change. Our Splendid Benefits When you join Splendid, you will enjoy a reward package to support your lifestyle, wellbeing and career. Here are just some of the benefits on offer: Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - confidential wellbeing support whenever you need it with 24/7 access to remote GP appointments. Hotel Room Discounts - stay with us or our partner hotels at special team rates including discounted rates for friends and family. Food & Beverage Discounts - enjoy meals and drinks at reduced prices across our hotels. Life Assurance - peace of mind for you and your loved ones. Salary Sacrifice - Car Scheme: our team members can enjoy the ultimate benefit of driving a brand new, full insured and maintained car for a fixed monthly amount taken from their salary. Stream - access your earned wages up to 50% whenever you need them giving you financial flexibility and Highstreet discounts available. Pension - auto enrolment into the company pension scheme. Learning & Development - opportunities available to progress your skills and career.