Project Financial Accountant

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Client Financial Management Specialist Support the global financial management function and business advisory services. Offer services through contract completion on regulatory and organization principles compliance, internal controls, budgeting/forecasting, contract profit and loss management and advisory to our customer leadership teams and corporate leadership. Deliver services around the globe through a network of financial professionals via help-desk support, shared service operations and customer-dedicated on-site support. Key Responsibilities Your role includes some or all the following key responsibilities. You should review these in conjunction with career level guidelines to gain a clear understanding of the expectations for your role. Overall 1. Provide value-added financial management, analysis, and advice to client engagement teams to maximize the profitability of engagements 2. Collaborate with client and engagement executives, client group finance leads (or equivalent), and other finance operations executives to communicate the position and status of contract or account financial position 3. Complete standard MTD/QTD financial and operational activities and processes 4. Fulfill invoicing and collections, consistent with contractual requirements 5. Advise/assist on forecast management activities (input collection, processing and report creation) 6. Perform/assist with work plan reconciliation and reporting 7. Track and report time-reporting hours, expenses, and variances as required, including compliance with account/engagement expense policy (if existent)Track and report third-party out-of-pocket expenses, client time and expenses against program budget, and any other expense charges to program budget tracking and reporting of third-party out-of-pocket expenses 8. Contribute to the CFM organization as Value Creator, People Developer, and Business Operator 9. Prepare and participate in CFM meetings and training sessions 10. Supervise, coach, and mentor junior CFM analyst(s) and others 11. Identify and communicate to CFM leadership to opportunities to continuously improve training, methodologies, tools and skills 12. Support and contribute to local CFM recruiting initiatives 13. Execute account financial processes to ensure the quality and integrity of engagement financial records 14. Provide pricing / new business support for new and extended business opportunities and/or review pricing calculations from engagement executives 15. Perform or assist with the preparation of engagement, project, and program reporting as well as Accenture internal financial accounting processes 16. Support and execute the account forecasting process, including ad hoc and internal stakeholder management requests 17. Execute all global and local statutory, tax, Internal Controls, and US GAAP requirements as described by policy to ensure full compliance 18. Perform Inventory and Receivables management, including monitoring of variances and follow-up on discrepancies 19. Execute/assist with balance sheet accountability, including tracking of capital assets and technology rental equipment, hardware/software costs, and other items Accenture Progressive Employee Benefits To view our Progressive Employee Benefits covering Health, Wellbeing, Progressive Leave Options, Sustainability click on the link below. Progressive Employee Benefits – Australia Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia and New Zealand: At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. 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We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. 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