Assistant Finance Manager

Costain; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Costain, a leading FTSE listed construction business, is looking for an ambitious finance professional to join their R2R function. This role offers the opportunity for significant professional development while providing critical financial support and reporting to senior management. Become integral to a team that drives financial accuracy and provides strategic feedback on business performance.

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA.
• Experience in finance roles and process optimization required.
• Ability to communicate financial information to non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assist in managing Balance Sheet Reconciliation & Control processes.
• Provide financial information to business unit owners.
• Assist in production of robust and timely financial results.

Skills

Resilience

Financial Reporting

Communication

Strategic Thinking

Education

Qualified Chartered Accountant or Certified Practicing Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

Oracle Enterprise One

Job description

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Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious finance professional looking to progress their experience within a FTSE listed construction business with a track record of delivering high profile infrastructure projects.

This is a critical role within the R2R function that involves collecting, processing, validating and presenting accurate financial data. Whilst also providing strategic, financial and operational feedback on the performance of the company to senior management.

The role will be involved in assisting in the set up and development of the R2R processes, supporting the Finance Manager & providing delivery of day-to-day finance activities.

The role includes exposure to senior management of the group and other central finance functions, providing an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your ability for further advancement.

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Responsibilities

You will provide financial information to a broad range of business unit owners & functional areas supporting them to understand their reported financial actuals, identifying balance sheet risks and opportunities.

It is essential that you can convey financial information to non-financial stakeholders at a senior level.

The primary responsibilities of this role are:

• Assist in managing the Balance Sheet Reconciliation & Control processes for all entities, to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the general ledger to support management and statutory reporting.
• Assist in the review of reconciliations to highlight high risk areas and work with the wider finance functions to ensure an acceptable outcome. Communicate to management & the wider finance areas a monthly progress report
• Assist in the production of robust and timely financial results and support the business partners with their reported numbers.
• Assist in the month end accounting close incorporating accruals, prepayments, fixed Asset accounting and reporting flash numbers for the main Costain Limited company.
• Reconciliation of the E1 numbers to the Management Accounts
• Assist in the AGV process for CLRs
• Assist in the Joint Arrangement numbers, understanding how the contracts work and building relationships with the wider business
• Assist in the extended trial balance adjustments schedule
• Understanding of the profit reconciliation & support
• Assist with the quarterly reporting on balance sheet numbers in Mercur
• Build relationships with both the FP&A team and Consolidation team
• Collate the relevant information to facilitate the preparation of the ONS returns
• Assist in the management of the CIS Returns and statements.
• Assist in driving standard processes through principles of simplification, standardisation, and, working with the wider teams to automate where appropriate.
• Support Ad-hoc projects including system developments where necessary.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Qualified Chartered Accountant or Certified Practicing Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Experience

• Experience in a finance role.
• Experience of process and systems optimisation.
• Collaboration with stakeholders and identifying financial anomalies.
• Working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.

Skills

• Understands the importance of resilience in facing challenges. Adapts quickly to change in project plans or unexpected issues. Demonstrates persistence in completing tasks despite challenges. Encourages resilience in others, providing support and fostering a positive work environment.
• Can prepare basic management reporting, can make basic interpretations of management information and reports and provide simple comments and insight, accurately interpret basic financial reports. Able to interrogate and explain cost entries.
• Ability to review and identify risk within the balance sheet. Ability to explain double entry and reconciliations to others.
• Can prepare and present management reporting and explain financial themes and relevant insights under supervision/guidance, can communicate financial results to non-finance communities and articulate results, challenges and risks, can identify trends within the numbers and takes appropriate action or communicates to management.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of accounting records and systems including nominal ledger coding structures. Can review ledgers to ensure accuracy. Understands requirement for separation of duties and able to identify potential areas of risk. Understands the purpose of internal controls and ensures they are followed.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence to present to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to think strategically, challenge current processes and introduce improvements.

Personal Attributes

• Willingness to learn from the team and how it interfaces with other disciplines.
• Actively inputs into team working sessions.
• Listens and respects the ideas and contributions of others.
• Shares relevant information with team members in a timely manner.
• Seeks help from colleagues when needed and provides assistance when asked.
• Demonstrates a positive attitude towards working with others.

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

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