Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant at Pula will play a crucial role in supporting the organization's financial operations. This position requires close collaboration with various internal teams including Finance, Project, Commercial, Operations, and Investment to ensure the accuracy of financial information, maintain effective financial controls, facilitate timely reporting, and foster strong finance business partnerships. The role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities aimed at maintaining robust financial health and compliance.

1. Manage revenue accounting, ensuring accurate recognition in appropriate periods and maintaining revenue schedules and reconciliations.
2. Monitor invoicing, collections, receivables, and outstanding balances, collaborating with commercial and project teams to resolve issues.
3. Track revenue performance against budgets, forecasts, and contractual expectations, and manage bad debt provisions.
4. Review contracts to ensure clear definition of revenue, tax requirements, billing terms, and project milestones for accurate recognition and audit support.
5. Set up new projects in the finance system, including codes, budgets, and cost centers.
6. Monitor project budgets versus actual expenditure and revenue, preparing regular Budget vs Actual (BVA) reports and variance analysis.
7. Support project forecasting, including costs, revenue, and completion positions, and ensure correct coding and allocation of project costs.
8. Assist with project close-out and final financial reconciliations.
9. Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual investor reports, maintaining reconciliations and supporting documentation.
10. Coordinate with internal teams for investor reporting information and respond to investor financial queries.
11. Support ad hoc investor analysis and financial information requests.
12. Assist with monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes.
13. Prepare and review various reconciliations (receivables, intercompany, revenue, project, investor, balance sheet).
14. Prepare and post month-end journals for revenue, accruals, prepayments, provisions, and reclassifications.
15. Investigate and resolve aged or unexplained reconciling items.
16. Support management reporting, financial analysis, and forecasting.
17. Manage project creation and other master data within the ERP/accounting system.
18. Oversee finance approval workflows to ensure adherence to processes.
19. Support onboarding of new finance users and manage system access.
20. Resolve system, workflow, and accounting process issues in collaboration with IT.
21. Contribute to finance system improvements, automation, and process optimization.
22. Support external, statutory, internal, tax, and investor audits across multiple jurisdictions.
23. Prepare audit schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation, and coordinate responses to audit queries.
24. Ensure compliance with finance policies, accounting standards, and internal controls, identifying and addressing control gaps.
25. Build strong relationships with Commercial, Project, and Operations teams for effective revenue management.
26. Provide financial insights on revenue performance, risks, and opportunities.
27. Ensure timely and accurate tax compliance (VAT, withholding tax, statutory filings) across entities.
28. Accurately record tax-related transactions and review contracts for tax implications.
29. Support tax audits and identify potential tax risks.

1. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related field.
2. Professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, ACA, or CIMA.
3. 6-8 years of relevant experience in accounting or finance.
4. Strong background in financial accounting, revenue recognition, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
5. Experience with project accounting, budget monitoring, and BVA reporting.
6. Proven experience in preparing investor or external stakeholder reports.
7. Experience supporting audits across multiple entities or jurisdictions.
8. Proficiency in Excel and accounting/ERP systems.
9. Experience with process improvement, automation, or finance system implementations is beneficial.
10. Excellent financial communication skills, capable of interpreting numbers and articulating financial performance to diverse stakeholders.
11. Strong technical accounting and analytical abilities.
12. Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
13. Commercial and business partnering mindset.
14. Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
15. Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
16. High level of ownership, accountability, and integrity.
17. Proactive approach to identifying and resolving financial issues.
18. Commitment to continuous improvement.