Contract Accountant Edinburgh   £27000 - £28000 per annum

Based in the South of Edinburgh our client is a Not-for-profit organisation, with an industry leading reputation. They are an employer of choice due to the working environment that promotes and rewards creativity, teamwork, and work/life balance.

Their Edinburgh based team are responsible for the service delivery of global projects to support some of the poorest people in the world with their proactive solutions. This new role is to support a newly assigned project. That will help with their strategy in providing these solutions with funding from the EC.

This role will encompass a varied aspects that will deal with the following:

• Procurement - management and administration of procurement processes (including tender compilation, administration and monitoring)
•Contracting - preparation of consultant and supplier contracts from standard templates (in conjunction with Finance Director)
•Contract management - monitoring financial and operational delivery of contracts
•Project - support, and liaise with, project staff as necessary providing regular project reports & analysis
•Finance - day to day transaction processing
•Reporting - production of project accounts and ad hoc reports
•Partners - satisfy Partner/Funders reporting and audit requirements
•Preparation of budgets and forecasts

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

•Proven procurement and contract management and administration experience
•Compilation of legal documents (from templates as a minimum)
•Experience of EC funded projects
•Experience of management accounts, cash flow forecasting and budget production
•Proficient user of Microsoft Office especially excel
•Working knowledge of SUN accounting packages (desirable

Job Reference:   DS123

Closing Date:     12-Feb-2010

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