Financial Services Manager - General Ledger

Bam Uk & Ireland; Farnborough, Hemel Hempstead; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car/allowance

Private healthcare

Life assurance

8% pension match

26 days holiday

Wellbeing days

Volunteer day

Development opportunities

Flexible benefits pot

Job summary

BAM UK & Ireland is recruiting a Financial Services Manager – General Ledger. You will lead the back-office General Ledger function across the UK&I Division, ensuring robust governance, balance sheet control and timely reporting, with office attendance required at multiple locations and travel between sites.

As a senior FS team member, you will drive continuous improvement, coach a team, and manage month-end, quarter-end and year-end processes across the ERP platform, while building strong

Qualifications

• Experience in resource and capacity planning and staffing.
• Strong Record-to-Report knowledge and financial reporting.
• Solid accounting principles and governance understanding.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead General Ledger across the UK&I Division.
• Ensure balance sheet integrity and timely reporting.
• Drive month-end close processes and controls.
• Coach and develop the FS team; optimise resources.
• Plan, prioritise, and improve end-to-end processes.
• Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders and audits.
• Identify bottlenecks and implement automation initiatives.
• Leverage AI/analytics to boost efficiency and quality.
• Deliver insightful management information for decisions.
• Act as Centre of Excellence for processes and systems.

Skills

Resource management

Record to Report

Financial controls

Risk management

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Digital systems

Education

Accounting qualification

Tools

Blackline

ERP system

Job description

Building a sustainable tomorrow

BAM UK & Ireland is recruiting a Financial Services Manager – General Ledger. This position can be based across our Farnborough, Hemel Hempstead, or Kildare offices, with office attendance required a minimum of three days each week and frequent travel between locations.

This role is the trusted advisor to the Director of Financial Services on financial governance and accounting matters and a real change agent to challenge existing processes, drive continuous improvement and lead on change to future proof Financial Services.

As a senior member of the Financial Services (FS) team, you will lead the back-office General Ledger function across the UK&I Division, responsible for the integrity of all ledgers across the Divisions ERP Platform, ensuring robust financial governance, balance sheet control, accurate timely reporting and an efficient and effective month end close process.

Making Possible

• Supporting an evolving Financial Services function for the UK&I Division, by challenging the status quo, focusing on leading change, and ensuring and supporting the introduction of a way of working where continuous improvement holds a central role across all General Ledger activities.
• Own and maintain the integrity of the UK&I Division balance sheet across all operating companies, including owning the Blackline Governance, reconciliation controls and balance sheet certification processes and maximising its functionality to deliver measurable efficiency and control benefits.
• Lead and coach a team to ensure all financial transactions relating to all ledgers across the division are processed correctly, completely and in a timely manner.
• Responsible for optimal and motivated staffing, both qualitatively and quantitatively, ensuring the best use of existing resources including workforce planning, cross-skilling, smarter ways of working and deploying resources effectively across Financial Services.
• Coordinate, plan and take responsibility for the quality and efficiency of the General Ledger Function for the Division, ensuring month-end, quarter-end and year-end processes are delivered to time and quality to ensure stakeholder requirements are met for both internal and external stakeholders, and to provide insightful management information to enable business decisions to be made on.
• Ensure a high level of predictability and quality of the figures that the team reports, where the same assumptions and processes are used across Segments to achieve as much standardisation and consistency as possible, whilst ensuring compliance with all financial accounting standards and controls.
• Align with internal and external stakeholders (business colleagues, clients and suppliers) in a timely manner on financial transactions to enable a high quality of information processing and to support business processes, including managing the Financial Services responses for internal and external audit activity.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external business stakeholders to achieve quality insights into needs and priorities and to create a platform for change.
• Recognise and identify process bottlenecks and work with the team to ensure these are ratified. Sharing End to End insights with stakeholders based on observations to make sure that root causes of issues are resolved and not just symptoms (process driven work).
• Drive improvements in leveraging AI and analytics to improve efficiency, effectiveness of the team as well as reporting accuracy and efficiency.
• Deliver results and trends reporting to ensure senior management has insight into key information and developments therein. Review consolidated figures. Ensure correct and timely internal and external reporting.
• Acts, with the team, as Centre of Excellence for processes and systems.
• Strive for standardisation and a high quality of working. Lead and/or participate in working groups to improve End to End processes and systems.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• Company Car or Car allowance
• A wide range of family friendly policies
• 8% matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• 2 wellbeing days
• 1 volunteering day
• Personal and professional development
• Flexible benefit pot

What do you bring to the role?

• Proven experience in resource and capacity management, ensuring effective planning and utilisation of people and resources.
• Knowledge of Record-to-Report processes, including month-end close management and financial reporting.
• Accountant with a solid understanding of accounting principles and practices
• Experience implementing and maintaining robust financial controls and governance frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of risk management, internal controls, and compliance requirements.
• Proven ability to use data, analytics, and business insight to support decision-making and drive performance.
• Strong digital and systems capability, with the ability to leverage technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Experience in balance sheet management, ensuring financial accuracy and integrity.
• Demonstrated success in identifying and delivering process improvement and automation initiatives.
• Results-oriented professional with strong decision-making skills and a proven ability to deliver outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management, relationship-building, and communication skills, with the ability to influence effectively at all levels.
• Experience leading teams, developing talent, and driving successful change initiatives.
• Strong situational awareness and commercial judgement, with the ability to navigate complex business environments.
• Adaptable and resilient, with the flexibility to respond to changing priorities and organisational needs.
• Strategic thinker with a clear vision and the ability to translate strategy into action.

About BAM

Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM. It’s how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

The application process

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at any time you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you. "Join us in Making Possible"