Finance Leader

Laing O’Rourke; Dartford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company seeks a Senior Finance Manager to support key infrastructure projects. The role involves financial insight, reporting, and business partnering, ensuring strong financial performance and managing risks. Join a dynamic team that values collaboration and expertise.

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified accountant required.
• Proven ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships across project teams.
• Lead timely and high-quality completion of core monthly finance deliverables.
• Deliver meaningful insight and analysis for leadership reviews.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Capability

Commercial Awareness

Education

ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent

Tools

COINs

Tagetik

Power BI

Job description

Location: Dartford and project visits when required

Are you a commercially astute finance professional looking to partner with project and commercial leaders in a dynamic construction environment? We're looking for a qualified Senior Finance Manager / Finance Leader to join our team and support key infrastructure and building projects through expert financial insight, reporting, and business partnering.

In this high-impact role, you will work closely with the Head of Finance and project leadership teams to ensure strong financial performance across assigned projects—driving value, managing risks, and unlocking opportunities. You'll play a vital part in supporting the financial integrity of our UK Business through accurate reporting, insightful analysis, and strategic input.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build trusted relationships across project teams to understand and challenge financial performance, helping identify emerging risks and opportunities.
• Lead timely and high-quality completion of core monthly finance deliverables.
• Deliver meaningful insight and analysis for use in leadership reviews, profit enhancement sessions, and planning cycles.
• Optimise project cash flows through deep operational understanding and integration into Hub-level cash planning.
• Support internal and external audits by aligning project activity with financial standards and liaising with Group Finance.
• Contribute to wider finance initiatives and ad hoc business needs.

About You:

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders, with excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Confident in managing deadlines, balancing priorities, and delivering under pressure.
• Strong analytical capability, commercial awareness, and a track record in forecasting, budgeting and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience improving processes and adding value in a finance role.

Desirable:

• Experience with large, complex engineering or construction contracts.
• Familiarity with COINs, Tagetik, and Power BI.
• Background in a large, complex finance environment.

Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to shape how financial insight supports operational success on some of the UK's most significant construction projects. You'll be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team where your expertise makes a real difference.

Ready to take the next step? Apply now to be part of a team that builds more than just structures—help us build financial excellence.

About us:

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

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