Senior Accountant

FERROVIAL CONSTRUCTION (UK) LIMITED; Buckingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Ferrovial Construction in Buckingham is seeking a Senior Accountant to lead project financial reporting, forecasting and month-end close activities, ensuring accurate cost control and financial performance analysis. You will work with commercial and project teams to provide key financial insights and support informed business decisions.

The role involves coordinating monthly closes, managing accruals for subcontractors and suppliers, and delivering cost reporting packs and variance analysis to

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate monthly financial close activities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of project costs, accruals, forecasts, and financial performance.
• Manage monthly accrual process for subcontractors, suppliers and resource works.
• Prepare and distribute accrual templates to commercial teams.
• Produce Flash, Draft and Final Cost Reports.
• Generate cumulative, period and detailed cost reporting packs.
• Support IFRS-15 monthly reporting requirements.
• Prepare quarterly IFRS-16 reporting updates.
• Monitor project financial performance and provide analysis to support decision-making.
• Produce pre-draft cost reports incorporating live costs and forecasts.
• Analyse Actual vs Forecast performance and cost variances.
• Review negative cumulative cost positions and project trends.
• Support section review meetings with commercial leadership.
• Prepare high-level cumulative cost summary reports on a monthly basis.
• Provide oversight of subcontractor costs, liabilities and payment schedules.
• Manage subcontract accrual reporting and validations.
• Monitor subcontract liabilities and support payment approvals.
• Ensure compliance with financial controls and accounting standards.
• Validate completeness and accuracy of accruals and forecasts.
• Perform reconciliations and maintain audit trails.
• Ensure adherence to reporting deadlines and governance requirements.
• Perform SOX control updates and compliance activities.
• Manage monthly trial balance mapping between Causeway and SAP.

Job description

Senior Accountant

Ferrovial Construction is seeking a Senior Accountant to lead project financial reporting, forecasting and month-end close activities, ensuring accurate cost control, compliance and financial performance analysis. Working closely with commercial and project teams, you will provide key financial insights, manage reporting processes and support informed business decisions.

Location: Buckingham, with flexibility to work from other site offices across the EKFB project.

Financial Reporting & Month-End Close Management

• Lead and coordinate monthly financial close activities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of project costs, accruals, forecasts, and financial performance.
• Manage monthly accrual process for subcontractors, suppliers and resource works.
• Prepare and distribute accrual templates to commercial teams.
• Produce Flash, Draft and Final Cost Reports.
• Generate cumulative, period and detailed cost reporting packs.
• Support IFRS-15 monthly reporting requirements.
• Prepare quarterly IFRS-16 reporting updates.

Project Cost Control & Performance Analysis

• Monitor project financial performance and provide analysis to support decision-making.
• Produce pre-draft cost reports incorporating live costs and forecasts.
• Analyse Actual vs Forecast performance and cost variances.
• Review negative cumulative cost positions and project trends.
• Support section review meetings with commercial leadership.
• Prepare high-level cumulative cost summary reports on a monthly basis.

Forecasting, Budgeting & Cost Adjustment Management

• Manage forecasting processes and cost adjustment reviews.
• Validate cost reallocations and adjustment accruals.
• Ensure agreed amendments are reflected in forecast files.
• Support AFP preparation and cash flow forecasting.

Stakeholder Management & Business Partnering

• Partner with Quantity Surveyors, Commercial Leads and Project Controls teams.
• Present financial performance and support management decisions.
• Attend CTC and weekly cash flow meetings.
• Provide financial guidance and respond to stakeholder queries.

Management Information & Reporting Development

• Develop reporting packs and management information outputs.
• Prepare cumulative cost analysis by discipline, activity code and month.
• Produce staff cost reporting and workforce analysis.
• Generate subcontract liability and monthly summary reports.

Subcontractor Cost & Payment Management

• Provide oversight of subcontractor costs, liabilities and payment schedules.
• Manage subcontract accrual reporting and validations.
• Monitor subcontract liabilities and support payment approvals.

Financial Governance, Controls & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with financial controls and accounting standards.
• Validate completeness and accuracy of accruals and forecasts.
• Perform reconciliations and maintain audit trails.
• Ensure adherence to reporting deadlines and governance requirements.
• Perform SOX control updates and compliance activities.
• Manage monthly trial balance mapping between Causeway and SAP.

Ferrovial is an equal opportunity employer. We treat all jobs applications equally, regardless of gender, color, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, covered veteran status or protected genetic information (each, a “Protected Class”), or any other protected class in accordance with applicable laws.