Project Administrator – Finance

We have a new opportunity for a Project Administrator to join our Finance Team. This is a great opportunity to join a forward-thinking multi-disciplinary consultancy with exciting growth aspirations. The role is based in our Reading office, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of office and home working.

We can offer you a welcoming environment to work in, a strong learning culture, and the opportunity to play an important role in a finance team that supports a growing community of talented engineers, planners, scientists and other technical professionals nationwide.

As a Project Administrator you will be responsible for owning a portfolio of projects; ensuring that projects are correctly initialised, and that transactions associated with the project are correct and processed in line with Stantec’s accounting policies and control standards.

Key elements of the role include close collaboration with Project Managers to maintain integrity over an assigned project portfolio; ensuring that projects are setup in Oracle with correct approvals in place; generating and issuing accurate client invoices; and ensuring compliance with the contractual terms for each project.

There will be opportunities to collaborate with Project Management and Finance teams across the UK, and with Finance colleagues within our team in Pune, India – working together to ensure timely and accurate delivery of project accounting support.

About You:

Excellent analytical, numerical and problem solving skills are essential to the role. You will also have an enquiring mind and a confident, proactive approach with good attention to detail.

You will ideally have a working knowledge of Project Accounting obtained through experience and/or education. Strong IT skills and proficiency using Microsoft Word, Excel, Teams & Outlook are essential. A knowledge of Oracle software packages and Sox experience are desired but not essential as training will be provided.

Why join us?

The friendly and collaborative culture at Stantec is something we are proud of and we have many other reasons for you to be excited about joining us. We can offer a competitive salary and benefits package, flexible and hybrid working arrangements, industry leading training, exceptional career development prospects, great projects, and lots more!

For more info on what it’s like to work at Stantec, please click on the link – My Stantec Stories

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.

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