Finance Leader

ENGINEERINGUK; Dartford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to enhance financial performance on key projects. This role involves strategic financial insight, reporting, and business partnering to support the UK's significant infrastructure projects. The ideal candidate will have a professional accounting qualification and experience in a complex finance environment. Join a collaborative team that values your expertise and contributes to operational success.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Pension – basic and enhanced schemes

Health and Wellbeing

Virtual GP

Health Assessment (Age 50+)

Phased return to work

Employee Assistance Programme

5 days leave extra can be purchased

Employee Discounts

Car or transport allowance

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified accountant required.
• Proven ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders.
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships to understand financial performance.
• Lead completion of core monthly finance deliverables.
• Deliver insight and analysis for leadership reviews.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Capability

Commercial Awareness

Education

ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent

Tools

COINs

Tagetik

Power BI

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View more categories View less categories Sector Finance and Accounts Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time

Finance Leader

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.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [e-mail]

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Company

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 an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story:

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourkebelieves that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommitteesinclude Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad,LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of theBusiness Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering withEven Breakto have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards andBenefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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