Finance Automations Developer

Balfour Beatty plc; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

Remote options up to 40%

25 days annual leave

Pension

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a Finance Automations Developer to build and maintain automation tools for the Finance Operations function, delivering timely operational reports and ensuring smooth automated processes across the finance function.

You will collaborate with the Finance Transformation team to standardise automations, provide user-friendly interfaces and maintain robust documentation and support for ongoing automation efforts.

Qualifications

• Experience in office process analysis.
• Expertise with MS Office automation tools (e.g. VBA and/or Power Automate).
• Experience with Robotic, Agentic and AI-powered process automation (e.g. Power Automate).
• Experience with planning and orchestration of Robotic and/or Agentic process flows, including workflow optimisation.
• Understanding and vision of best practices within digital technology teams.
• Understanding of the opportunities presented by evolving technologies.

Responsibilities

• Create automation tools for the Finance Operations department and maintain/support existing automations.
• Deliver operational reporting and run automated tasks centrally.
• Develop live Power BI reports and data pipelines with IT Data and Data Lake teams.

Skills

Process automation

Power Automate

Robotic Process Automation

Data automation

Power BI

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Power Query

VBA

Excel

Job description

About the role

As Finance Automations Developer, you will be responsible for creating automation tools, primarily to be used within the Finance Operations department, as well as maintaining and providing support for such automation tools across the Finance function, ensuring automations produced are professional, stable, and well-supported. In addition to this, you will be responsible for the timely delivery of operational reporting, and ensuring the smooth running of existing centrally automated tasks.

What you'll be doing

New Process Automations

• Use digital technology to automate office tasks within the Finance function. This is accomplished with the full suite of existent and emerging digital technologies, e.g. cloud computing, machine learning, digital robots and AI/copilot-enabled programming.
• Work with the Finance Transformation team, and the Finance Automations Product Manager, to ensure that automations are built to a common standard and that relevant documentation is filled out to a professional standard.
• Collaborate with end users to ensure that automations created for usage by other teams present a good user experience, including meaningful error messages and a comprehensible user guide.
• Where the responsibility for automated tasks needs to rest within the Automations team, ensure that timelines are clearly laid out and understood.

Automation Maintenance

• Support the business by providing support for existing automations built by the Automations team, including bug fixing, troubleshooting, configuration and re-training.
• Work with the Finance Automations Product Manager to carry out periodic reviews of previously created automations, updating and/or archiving tools appropriately when they are no longer fit for purpose.

Centralised Process Automations (Including Robotic and AI-Agentic Automations)

• Where automations are complex and/or time-sensitive enough that they must be operated by the Automations team, ensure the timely and consistent delivery of such.
• Continue to drive "true" automation by converting manually triggered automation tools into robotically automated processes and/or data pipelines.
• Work with the IT Data Department to convert existing automations for data transfer into proper data pipelines, making data tables available through the Data Lake.
• Create and maintain live reports for key metrics using Power BI, to replace Excel-based reports currently being produced both within the team and by managers across Finance

Who we're looking for

Process Automation

• Experience in office process analysis
• Expertise with MS Office automation tools (EG: VBA and/or Power Automate)
• Experience with Robotic, Agentic and AI-powered process automation (EG: Power Automate)
• Experience with planning and orchestration of Robotic and/or Agentic process flows, including workflow optimisation
• Understanding and vision of best practices within digital technology teams
• Understanding of the opportunities presented by evolving technologies

Data Automation

• Experience with financial data sets
• Expertise in data extraction and transformation (EG: SQL and/or Power Query)
• Experience in presenting data analysis and creating reports
• Experience in Power BI report creation and maintenance
• Experience in ML-based data analysis and decision-making
• Understanding of the importance of data modelling for modern digital solutions, especially machine learning analysis

Working Methods

• Ability to collaborate in a project-based team
• Understanding of a Lean continuous improvement project mindset
• Strong organisational skills and ability to communicate with both technical and managerial stakeholders.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies in the automation area, and skills needed to stay abreast of continuing developments (EG: RPA, Agentic Orchestration)

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at [e-mail]