R&D Project Accountant

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Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

The R&D Project Accountant is responsible for providing accurate and timely project information to the Project accounting Team Lead, Financial Controller, Head of FP&A and funding authorities. The candidate should have excellent attention to detail, a high level of discipline and organisation, and the ability to identify key insights arising from the data.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and submit timely and accurate claims and reports to grant funding authorities in the UK, EU & US in accordance with the funding rules and associated Ricardo procedure(s).
• Lead grant audits, providing relevant evidence
• Complete month-end R&D accounting, including grant recognition
• Provide input to the cash flow forecast
• Co-ordinate month-end R&D forecasts (grant-funded and internal), working with stakeholders to understand activity in each key project
• Keeping up to date records of grant rates
• Ensure all costs are correctly categorized in line with Group guidelines and agreed budgets, and that the financial impacts are incorporated into the forecast
• Tracking and summarizing reasons for variance to forecast and identifying/addressing root causes

Key Competencies and Experience

• Financial qualification or part-qualification
• Financial analysis and accounting experience in a global organisation
• Experience with a large accounting ledger software (like SAP)
• Excellent Excel skills including experience with or willingness to learn Power Query
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, including working through challenges collaboratively
• Able to demonstrate a continuous improvement mindset, identifying and implementing opportunities for process improvement and automation