Finance Manager

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

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Finance Manager to manage financial operations and provide insights to support project and commercial teams. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and experience in management reporting and budgeting. This role offers a valuable opportunity to contribute to the company's growth while working collaboratively with stakeholders across various projects.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills with senior stakeholders.
• Experience in management reporting and variance analysis.
• Budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage the month-end close and reporting cycle.
• Ownership of cost management projects.
• Support financial reporting through CLR reports.
• Manage PBA Bank account, payments, and reconciliations.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Excellent communication skills

Commercial awareness

Management reporting and variance analysis

Budgeting and forecasting

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Experience with Oracle Enterprise One

Education

Degree qualified or Part Qualified Accountant

Tools

Microsoft Power BI

Job description

Job Description

The Finance Manager will work closely with the Senior Finance Manager. The role will support the Project and Commercial Management teams to enable continued growth of the business providing financial insight, strong operational control, timely reporting, and robust management of accounts receivable and payable for sector.

Responsibilities

• Manage the month end close and reporting cycle
• Ownership of all aspects of cost management projects including the balance sheet accruals and prepayments, monthly forecasting, staff cost recoveries.
• Support financial and management reporting through CLR reports (Contract Leaders Report)
• Project Cash Flow forecast and preparation
• Management of the PBA Bank account, payments and reconciliations
• Develop and maintain strong team relationships at all levels of the business, including working collaboratively with our stakeholders.
• Develop strong working relationships with the commercial team
• Staff Calculator ownership, challenge charges and time charged to the project as well as staff allocation of time across projects
• Cost analysis, understanding variances to forecasts and Budgets

Financial Controls

• Investigate & respond to queries from Group Finance team as required.
• Compliance reviews of financial controls, in line with company guidelines, ensuring that all applicable requirements can be always met.
• Monitor best practice of PO, GRNI and invoice matching processes and manage the monthly Purchase Card reconciliation and journal reallocations.
• Monitoring of all central recharges, challenging and reconciling
• Preparing and reviewing the balance sheet reconciliations. Effective management of accounts receivables and payables including liaising with clients for timely receipt of cash payments
• Management and administration of the AMS IT cost for staff to ensure accuracy.
• Administration of staff agency suppliers through the Engage platform.
• Provide financial support, insight and validity for Commercial requirements
• Provide support for supplying the correct and appropriate information to Internal, External and Client Auditors
• Other ad hoc duties to support project.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and an ethical approach to data including respecting the confidential nature of information and the associated decision making.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence to present numbers to senior stakeholders.
• Displays strong commercial awareness, vigilant attention to the changing business environment and emerging opportunities and risks.
• Experience of management reporting and variance analysis.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders and communicating financial insights.
• Budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Ability to think strategically, challenge current processes and introduce improvements.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, experience with Microsoft Power BI reporting.
• Experience of working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.
• Hands on approach to Operational Finance.
• Demonstrate ability to meet reporting deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively in a virtual team environment and help others to do so.

Desirable

• Experience of working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.
• Experience of working with Complex Projects
• Knowledge of Project Bank Accounts
• Knowledge of IFRS15

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree qualified or at least Part Qualified Accountant working towards being qualified

Desirable

• Project Accounting experience
• Newly Qualified Accountant

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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