Project Cost Accountant - Project Controls - Energy Projects

Turner & Townsend
United Kingdom
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Finance & AccountingSkills: ["Highly organised","Detail-oriented","Communication","Stakeholder management","Numerical analysis"]

Support cost management and project controls for energy projects, focusing on invoice processing, cost administration, and financial reporting. Maintain cost control systems to track budgets, commitments, actuals, and forecasts; validate and reconcile supplier/subcontractor invoices; manage PO/WO/requisition cost capture; and produce accruals, month-end reporting, and cost/expenditure summaries. Work closely with project controls, planning, commercial, finance, and procurement teams to ensure accurate, timely, contract-compliant cost information.

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Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend
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Project Cost Accountant - Project Controls - Energy Projects

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Job Summary

Support cost management and project controls for energy projects, focusing on invoice processing, cost administration, and financial reporting. Maintain cost control systems to track budgets, commitments, actuals, and forecasts; validate and reconcile supplier/subcontractor invoices; manage PO/WO/requisition cost capture; and produce accruals, month-end reporting, and cost/expenditure summaries. Work closely with project controls, planning, commercial, finance, and procurement teams to ensure accurate, timely, contract-compliant cost information.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Finance & Accounting

Key Responsibilities

  • •Implement and maintain cost control systems and processes to track budgets, commitments, actual costs, and forecasts.
  • •Process, validate, and reconcile supplier invoices to ensure accuracy and compliance with project and contractual requirements.
  • •Create and maintain Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) aligned to project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
  • •Set up and manage Purchase Orders (POs), Work Orders (WOs), and requisitions to ensure accurate cost capture and reporting.
  • •Support month-end reporting and forecast updates by maintaining cost records and producing accruals within reporting cycles.

Key Requirements

  • •Interest in building a career in cost engineering, project controls, or project finance, with experience or exposure to invoice processing and cost administration.
  • •Experience or knowledge of invoice processing, accounts payable, cost administration, or financial controls.
  • •Highly organised and detail-oriented, with strong numerical and analytical skills for working with financial data.
  • •Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
  • •Be able to obtain BPSS level security clearance.
Experience:EnergyConstructionInfrastructure
Skills:Highly organisedDetail-orientedCommunicationStakeholder managementNumerical analysis
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft Office

Eligibility

Security Clearance:BPSS

Company Brief

Turner & Townsend
Global professional services firm providing program, project and cost management, advisory and consulting services across property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors to public and private clients worldwide.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Leeds, United Kingdom
Founded: 1946
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