About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Do you crave working in a reliable team that supports a vast array of commercial finance projects? Do you relish in your meticulous attention to detail and harness your commercial awareness to ensure reporting (verbally & electronically) in a confident and clear manner?

We are looking for a creative problem solver like you! We want someone who loves to explore problems with senior stakeholders and project managers, ensuring in depth knowledge of client contracts and costs.

PA has migrated to use PeopleSoft for it’s project management, you will be responsible for opening and maintaining sold projects, ensure the complete booking of time to projects and raising invoices for one or more of the Consulting teams.

The role requires commercial awareness ensuring timely invoicing and a good working relationship with Credit Control. There is a requirement to proactively monitor the weekly WIP and debt position of the jobs they look after and offer support when invoices need to be sent.

Key responsibilities

• Accurate Commercial filing and SOX Audit compliance
• Managing weekly Time Report Process
• Opening and maintaining Sold jobs in financial systems
• Ensuring accurate and timely Invoicing
• Using Client Portals to upload and submit invoices and manage debt
• Support Credit Control with chasing of Debt
• Accountability to respond and report to Government requirements within our secure sectors
• Accurate financial reporting to Partners, Assignment Manager and Head of Sectors.
• Provide data and respond to Sales Executive and Senior Board members KPI’s

Flexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.

Previous experience with MS Office (Excel & Word essential) and ideally PeopleSoft Projects/other corporate tools.

Skills:

• Commitment to providing a quality service in line with PA’s processes and procedures
• Able to meet firm wide deadlines as required
• Susceptible to change and expected to operate a high level during change processes
• Sound business and commercial knowledge ideally gained in a services organisation
• Able to use initiative, work well under pressure, without close supervision
• Organised and able to prioritise
• Exceptional interpersonal skills

Advantageous:

• Experience of working with PeopleSoft Projects/other Corporate finance tools.
• Finance/equivalent degree, ACA/CIMA qualified optimal

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

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