Finance Manager

Costain; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction business is seeking an ambitious finance professional to join the critical R2R function. The role offers an excellent opportunity to manage a small team, ensure accurate financial data processing, and communicate vital financial information to senior stakeholders, contributing to the company's operational feedback and strategic decision-making.

Qualifications

• Qualified Chartered Accountant or equivalent with +5 years' experience.
• Minimum 3+ years' experience in finance systems role.
• Experienced in team management and financial processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial information across business units and manage accuracy.
• Oversee payroll processes and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support strategic finance operations and team development.

Skills

Financial communication

Process optimisation

Team management

Attention to detail

Strategic thinking

Education

Qualified Chartered Accountant

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 Senior 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:

• Team management & development of 3 direct reports
• Management of the first line reviews of the divisional business unit results, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of the financial results
• Manage the completed contracts close out process to include the clear down of the Balance sheet, cash, legal obligations, sub accounts and returns.
• Management of the weekly & monthly payroll processes, management of the payroll data, ensuring all reconciliations are accurate and well supported by working with the in-house payroll team.
• Management of the HS2 Current Account ensuring all costs charged to the client are per the contract.
• Management of other specified Current Accounts ensuring all costs charged to the client are per the contract.
• Assist and review in the balance sheet reconciliations for the projects and establishing a process that will support the project control, ensuring any adjustments are rectified on a timely basis. Adding assistance where necessary to resolve issues.
• Management of all recharges ensuring the correct BU's have been impacted. Work with procurement on any changes/amendments/corrections required for the data are supplied.
• Management and review of the intercompany recharges ensuring the intercompany matrix all matches, any discrepancies are investigated and resolved in a timely fashion.
• Management of the work winning Bid accruals
• Management of the CITB Levy and ECITB
• Management and review of sweep journals, moving costs from overheads to the appropriate cost of sales code.
• Monitoring efficiency, reporting targets and KPI's to drive continuous improvement.
• Support Ad-hoc projects including system developments where necessary.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Qualified Chartered Accountant or Certified Practicing Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with +5 years' experience

Experience

• Minimum 3+ years' experience in a similar finance systems role.
• Management, development and co-ordination of small teams essential.
• Proven experience of process and systems optimisation.
• Collaboration with stakeholders and identifying financial anomalies
• Working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.

Skills

• Can remain calm and focused under pressure, handling challenging situations with composure. Adapts quickly to change in project plans or unexpected issues. Reflects on setbacks to identify lessons learned and applies these insights to future tasks. Encourages resilience in others, providing support and fostering a positive work environment.
• Can prepare, present and explain complex management reporting/financial performance and explain complex financial themes with relevant insights to improve business performance independent of support
• 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

• Self-motivated and a self-starter, with the ability to build positive and effective relationships at all levels. Gravitas to influence, challenge, and support in a matrix environment.
• Displays strong commercial awareness, vigilant attention to the changing business environment and emerging opportunities and risks.
• Set and achieve high standards for themselves and for others, takes personal accountability for results, and monitors performance against pre-set objectives and performance standards.
• Identifies, anticipates, and navigates problems and obstacles to performance in an orderly and calm manner. Responds creatively to personal and team challenges.
• Communicates openly and honestly with others, listens to differing views and seeks to create a common understanding and agreement to proposed actions.

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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