Financial Controller

Bachy Soletanche; Camberley; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme

Enhanced Sick Pay

Income Protection

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

25-days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Volunteering days

Professional growth and development

Job summary

Bachy Soletanche Limited, a leader in geotechnical contracting, seeks a Finance professional to join the Projects Division in the UK. You will manage financial accounts, prepare monthly management accounts and project forecasts, and provide strategic financial guidance to project teams.

This role requires strong Excel and PowerBI skills, experience in consolidated accounts, and the ability to work across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant required.
• Strong Excel and PowerBI skills essential.
• Experience with consolidated accounts is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare regular group reports including monthly management accounts and forecasts.
• Review monthly costs with site teams and drive cost transparency.
• Visiting job sites when needed to gather financial insights.
• Consolidate accounts and support project teams with financial strategies.
• Ensure compliance and support digital accounting improvements.
• Coordinate cross-project financial lessons learned.

Skills

Staff management

Attention to detail

Ability to work under pressure

Self-starter

Inquisitive

Education

Qualified or part-qualified accountant

Tools

PowerBI

Excel

PeopleSoft

SAGE

Job description

As part of a world leading geotechnical contracting group, Bachy Soletanche Limited specialises in all aspects of modern Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering, Including bored and displacement piling, diaphragm walls, grouting, mini piling, anchors, ground improvements and environmental engineering.

We value our team and colleagues as the most important assets we have and we know that it is working together to overcome the most complex geotechnical challenges that ultimately allows us to fuel that feeling of pride.

Our Mission: Proud to create sustainable geotechnical solutions through Trust, Partnership and Excellence.

Our Values: In line with our Mission Statement, the main Values that shape our behaviours, unify us a team and help us build long lasting relationships with our clients are: TEC-TAC = Teamwork, Excellence, Creative, Trust, Accountability, Caring.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a company which is a leader in its market and has very ambitious growth plans. The role will report to the Divisional Commercial Manager and intrinsically will need to have close coordination and communication with the CFO, the .

Bachy Soletanche has three trading divisions North, South and Projects, this role is specifically reporting for the financial interests of the Projects Division. The division delivers the largest and most complex projects across the business and this role will be managing the financial accounts/reports, project forecasts, risks and opportunities and supporting the project teams with financial strategies.

What You'll Be Doing

• Preparation of regular group reports including monthly management accounts, cash reporting and quarterly forecasts;
• Working with site teams across the Projects Divisions, and the shared service department, to review and understand monthly costs whilst improving accuracy and efficiency;
• Periodically visiting job sites;
• Driving cost efficiency through transparency and presentation of information to the project teams;
• Reconciling accounts;
• Compliance activities: audit, disallowed cost risk assessments supporting the project teams with compliance meetings;
• Provide support to the project teams and Division relating to digital tasks and improvements;
• Ensuring cross-pollination of lessons learnt between projects with a particular focus on disallowed cost risks on Defined Cost projects.

What We're Looking For

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant
• Proven Staff management and motivation skills.
• Working across multiple sites, preferably in a PLC reporting environment
• Hands on with ability to get into the detail
• Consolidated accounts production experience
• Strong Excel, PowerBI skills
• Strong skills in accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work well under pressure in order to meet strict deadlines
• Self-starter and ability to work with minimal supervision
• Inquisitive

Nice to haves

• Experience of Peoplesoft accounting packages, SAGE
• Experience of embedding robust & scalable accounting/control processes
• Construction or engineering sector experience
• Commercial/Contractual knowledge especially within NEC contract frameworks

Why Bachy Soletanche?

When you join the world's largest specialist geotechnical contractor, you're part of an international community of over 10,000 experts, based in 31 countries around the world. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to prestigious, ground-breaking projects, using the very latest tools and technology to solve complex problems, constantly learn new skills and take your career in any direction.

As well as being part one of the largest specialist geotechnical contractor and working in a collaborative environment, we offer:

• Discretionary annual bonus (based on personal/project performance)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme (min. 5% company contribution)
• Enhanced Sick Pay (after probation)
• Income Protection, Private Medical Insurance and Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 25-days annual leave + Bank Holidays per year (increasing with service)
• Option to purchase additional annual leave
• Paid annual professional memberships
• Volunteering days
• Professional growth and development

Bachy Soletanche is committed to equal opportunities in employment with the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or belief and pregnancy/maternity.