Project Finance Manager - Lower Thames Crossing

Consortium; Grays; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is seeking a Project Finance Manager for the Lower Thames Crossing. The role is based at the Thurrock LTC site offices in Grays, UK, with regional travel expected.

You will provide financial support, governance, and challenge to the LTC leadership team, ensuring strong financial controls and statutory reporting standards are met. This permanent position offers exposure to one of the UK's flagship infrastructure programmes, supporting planning, budgeting and forecasting to drive

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with experience in finance, governance and commercial work.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to translate complex data.
• Experience in project management or leading change initiatives is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate financial support, analysis and governance for programme leadership.
• Communicate budgets and forecast outcomes to senior leaders and track performance.
• Lead adoption of new finance processes and ensure budget holders have actionable insight.
• Support annual business planning and long-term financial planning across regions.
• Ensure costing systems align with core finance platforms and maintain reporting consistency.
• Review balance sheets, cash flow forecasts and financial provisions in line with standards.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Stakeholder management

Project governance experience

Financial analysis

Education

Accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

Financial systems

Budgeting tools

Job description

Project Finance Manager - Lower Thames Crossing

Project Finance Manager - Lower Thames Crossing

Location: Grays, UK

Job Type: Permanent

Highlighted points for this job

Project Finance Manager role for Lower Thames Crossing at National Highways

Based at Thurrock LTC site offices with regional travel required

Responsibilities include financial support, analysis, and governance for project leadership

Requires qualified accountant with experience in finance, governance, and project management

Salary offered at the lower end of the pay scale for external candidates

About the job.

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Project Finance Manager to join our Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) team. As the Project Finance Manager, you will provide financial support, insight, and challenge to the leadership team of Lower Thames Crossing Directorate at National Highways. You will also be responsible for the maintenance of strong financial controls and governance, ensuring LTC's management and financial accounts are produced in line with Government and Statutory Financial Reporting standards.

This is a permanent role based at the Thurrock LTC site offices however; travel to regional offices / sites throughout the South East may be required.

• Provide accurate and timely financial support, analysis, and advice to the Programme leadership team. Contribute to planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to support informed decision-making and drive performance improvement.
• Ensure financial results are accurate, clearly communicating, budgets and forecasted outcomes to the Programme leadership team. Identify key issues in business performance, to support informed decision-making and drive performance improvement.
• Contribute to the adoption of new business and finance processes and lead their roll-out Ensuring budget holders are equipped with the right information and financial insight to achieve the financial objectives of the project.
• Support the annual business planning process and longer-term financial planning, using a bottom-up approach. Engaging with those responsible for providing inputs and ensuring that all are aware of key targets, pressures and messages. Networking with Project Managers and Senior Leadership within the Directorate to ensure they are aligned to the target costs agreed.
• Assist in ensuring that costing systems are aligned with core finance systems. Help maintain consistency in reporting outputs and resolve data discrepancies as needed.
• Contribute to the review of balance sheet reconciliations, cash flow forecasts, and financial provisions. Ensure compliance with relevant financial standards and internal policies.

About you.

• Qualified accountant with previous finance, governance and commercial experience.
• Good understanding of project management approaches and experience of working on or leading projects and change initiatives from planning through to successful delivery. Relevant project management qualifications are welcomed but not essential.
• Excellent relationship / stakeholder management skills with ability to understand and analyse complex information and present it simply and accurately.
• Experience of working with financial systems to support the business with automation and improved utilisation of the finance IT products
• Ability to work with high volumes of data in order to analyse trends and future insight.
• Understanding and working experience of managing a business planning process at a regional/area level, being able to communicate the project/directorate objectives to all those with responsibility for developing budgets and taking responsibility for ensuring budget outputs align with company, directorate and regional targets (desirable).

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

The Lower Thames Crossing is one of the UK's most ambitious and high-profile infrastructure programmes, designed to transform connectivity, improve network resilience and support economic growth for decades to come.

As the largest road project in a generation, the Lower Thames Crossing will create a new connection beneath the River Thames, linking Kent, Thurrock and Essex, and significantly increasing capacity across one of the country's busiest transport corridors. The project will help unlock opportunities for communities and businesses locally, while strengthening national supply chains and supporting the movement of people and goods across the UK.

More than a road project, the Lower Thames Crossing is a nationally significant programme that is pioneering new approaches to sustainability, innovation and delivery. The scheme aims to leave a positive legacy by improving journey reliability, enhancing safety, creating new green spaces and delivering environmental improvements alongside vital transport infrastructure.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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