Finance Project Accountant

Summary

BOLDSCIENCE is a full-service medical communications agency serving pharmaceutical and biotech clients through scientifically creative healthcare communications. The Finance Project Accountant will support senior finance staff with revenue oversight, project reconciliation, profitability analysis, reporting, client estimates, financial compliance, invoicing, and month-end accounting activities.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior FPA to oversee up to $12m of fee-based revenue, ensuring all projects are reconciled when complete to an audit ready standard
• Daily management of the VP finance reporting packs
• Work closely with the senior finance team and Client Services to improve recoverability and productivity across their clients and team
• Support the completion and evaluation of various reporting to improve business efficiency, making recommendations to senior finance team members
• Prepare job profitability analysis which involves regular liaison with Client Services to understand variances from expectations, and the commercial and financial aspects of client relationships
• Work closely with Client Services to raise and check client estimates before they are sent, comparing the estimate with similar projects to ensure we are charging the correct amount
• Support Client Services team with monthly reconciliations and ad-hoc queries
• Use problem solving skills to ensure the resolution of any system or reporting challenges
• Be on hand to assist staff across the business with Paprika and process/policy queries
• Able to communicate with clients troubleshooting day-to-day issues such as budgeting and job administration
• Actively engage with client meetings to support client services team
• Assist with the preparation of month end management accounts, focusing on revenue recognition and WIP
• Help ensure all financial transactions recorded are compliant with financial policies and procedures, highlighting any breaches to senior team
• Raise sales invoices to clients and ensure timely receipt of payment

Skills

• A number of years' experience within the Marketing/Advertising/Comms industry, preferably with some experience within the international Med Comms industry
• Good understanding of industry standards including accounting principles, particularly around revenue recognition
• Has experience with Paprika accounting software or similar advanced project management system
• Advanced skills in MS Office
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail
• Efficient time management and organizational skills
• Good team communication and influencing skills
• Proactive and flexible approach, a problem solver, adaptable to and an advocate of new systems and sharing of ideas
• Preferably finance or accounting degree and/or part qualified from a relevant professional body, ideally looking to complete their studies in due course
• Ability to work collegiately, but also on own initiative, and in a largely remote but still highly communicative and supportive environment

Qualifications

Must Haves

• A number of years' experience within the Marketing/Advertising/Comms industry, preferably with some experience within the international Med Comms industry
• Good understanding of industry standards including accounting principles, particularly around revenue recognition
• Has experience with Paprika accounting software or similar advanced project management system
• Advanced skills in MS Office
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail
• Efficient time management and organizational skills
• Good team communication and influencing skills
• Proactive and flexible approach, a problem solver, adaptable to and an advocate of new systems and sharing of ideas
• Preferably finance or accounting degree and/or part qualified from a relevant professional body, ideally looking to complete their studies in due course
• Ability to work collegiately, but also on own initiative, and in a largely remote but still highly communicative and supportive environment

Benefits

• A collaborative environment
• A tight-knit team
• A forum to express big ideas
• The chance to shape the agency’s growth and contribute to the BOLD culture
• Excellent career development opportunities
• A largely remote ... environment