Capital Projects Services - Qualified Accountant - London
- Reference
- ADV03093
- Location
- London
- Service
- Advisory (Deals)
- Specialism
- Forensic Services
- Industry
- Capital Projects Services
About the role
At PwC, our Capital Project Services (CPS) team consists of engineers, project managers and accountants with a diverse range of backgrounds. Our expanding team is currently seeking talented, high performing, industry professionals to join us.
All implementers of major capital projects face risk throughout the course of their business and that's where we come in. Our CPS team advises clients on the business issues relating to the delivery of capital projects, provides project and programme management solutions and we also provide dispute advisory services for projects that have failed. We are currently expanding our team to enhance the financial and commercial expertise that we can provide for clients.
If you enjoy working with high profile clients and would relish the chance to see the bigger picture, then our CPS team at PwC will provide you with that opportunity. You’ll have the opportunity to work on high-profile, international projects that will enable you to reach your full potential.
If you’d like to know more about our people, their backgrounds and the sorts of projects that they’re currently involved in, please take a look at some of our team profiles where you can ‘meet the team’: www.pwc.com/uk/careers/cps-team.
Responsibilities
If you’re successful you’ll work in multi-disciplinary teams undertaking client work which includes for example:
- Managing and delivering assignments within a range of business sectors including the construction industry
- Working as part of a team or independently depending on the size of the assignment
- Taking the lead and managing a team on larger projects
- Developing client relationships
- Face-to-face contact with clients and their professional advisors
Requirements
As a Chartered Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or other), you’ll have a background in commercial and project accounting and an understanding of the technical, financial and commercial aspects encountered on large and complex projects. You will also be comfortable working independently or leading projects and managing teams of 5-10 people.
As well as good practical work experience you’ll have working knowledge/experience of:
- Capital project accounting, budgeting, forecasting and cost to completion analysis
- Consulting with clients in a projects environment
- Project management experience
- Estimating and financial management (for example preparing cost and value reports and cost forecasts)
- Excellent IT skills
- An articulate and confident communicator, both orally and written.
Additional experience which would be very relevant includes:
- Consulting or delivery experience in construction industry
- Approaches for the valuation and assessment of claims
- Advising clients on project risks
- Implementation of project accounting systems
- Providing assurance to stakeholders on project ownership or development
Our Competencies
Our people need to demonstrate a defined set of core skills and behaviours. We refer to these as our global core competencies. They're integral to who we are as a firm and form the basis of our people appraisal process. We will also assess you against them within our recruitment process to benchmark your own skills and behaviours. We recommend you visit the below web page to find out more about our global core competencies and to consider how your own experiences will align against them. This will help you through the recruitment process with us.
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