Country Accountant

Interested in taking the next step in your career and gaining exposure beyond the back office?_
- Have strategic conversations, influence decisions and help to drive value
- Work with a variety of stakeholders and build your commercial acumen
- Gain exposure working across our diverse regions, sectors and projects

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management and development consultancy. We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and enthusiastic Country Accountant to join our Finance team.
This role would suit a finance professional (ISCA, ACCA), up to 3 years post-qualification experience, with the aptitude and ambition to develop as a finance business partner. You will bring a dynamic and engaging style that will be vital, assisting you to get involved in key decision-making that impacts the organisation.
In this role, you will:

- Work with Country and Sector management teams to provide a wider understanding of business performance, enabling more informed decision-making.
- Assist in preparation and review of proposals, including assessment of financial aspects of contracts to facilitate invoicing and payments
- Attend monthly project control meetings for major and risky projects.
- Manage country working capital, ensuring prompt invoicing and collections.
- Prepare annual budgets and quarterly forecasts, leading onto evaluation of Business Plans
- Produce statutory accounts, tax and other returns; co-ordinating statutory and internal audits.
- Work with Group/Regional Finance, Treasury, Tax, and Shared Service teams to enhance delivery to project teams.
- About You:

- Purpose-driven with a strategic mindset keen to assist on the development and implementation of longer-term financial plans and strategies.
- 6+ years of total accounting/audit experience will be preferred.
- The ability to engage in a collaborative, open and constructive manner with good relationship management, interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Customer driven, collaborative and hands-on approach who can identify pragmatic business focussed solutions to problems, see the bigger picture and think through the wider implications of actions.
- Excellent communicator, with the ability to listen, understand & advise
- Positive, enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach to work.
- Confident, self-starter with a passion for continued learning.

In Return,
- Grow your career by working in one of the world’s largest employee-owned companies.
- Gain exposure to the implementation and roll-out of a new financial system.
- Join a team environment focused on personal & team development that embraces change.

Job Profile
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- Equality, diversity and inclusion
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.
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At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.
More about Mott MacDonald
We’re a global engineering, management and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.
Our values: progress, respect, integrity, drive, excellence