Project Accountant
22 days ago
Harrogate
Are you a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys systems, reporting transformation and making numbers genuinely useful to senior leaders? Gifford and Partners are working on behalf of a well-established and growing Yorkshire business seeking an experienced Project Accountant to lead a high-impact finance systems project over the next six months. This is not a routine reporting role. It is a hands-on opportunity to help modernise how finance data is captured, interpreted and presented across the business. You will play a key role in implementing IBM Planning Analytics (the revolution of Cognos TM1), helping migrate data from a legacy platform, redesign reports, improve planning models and create clearer, smarter insight for senior financial and operational stakeholders. What you will be doing • Lead the rollout and implementation of IBM Planning Analytics (IBM PA), • Extract and transition reporting data from legacy systems, • Build improved weekly and monthly reporting packs, • Support budgeting and forecasting models within the new platform, • Create logic-driven dashboards and meaningful management reports, • Partner with Finance, IT and operational leaders to define needs, • Test data outputs, validate accuracy and resolve discrepancies, • Train end users and support adoption across the business, • Deliver the project to a...