Finance Manager
Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 2 weeks ago
Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious finance professional looking to progress their experience within a FTSE listed construction business with a track record of delivering high profile infrastructure projects.
This is a critical role within the R2R function that involves collecting, processing, validating and presenting accurate financial data. Whilst also providing strategic, financial and operational feedback on the performance of the company to senior management.
The role will be involved in assisting in the set up and development of the R2R processes, supporting the Senior Finance Manager & providing delivery of day-to-day finance activities.
The role includes exposure to senior management of the group and other central finance functions, providing an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your ability for further advancement.
Responsibilities
You will provide financial information to a broad range of business unit owners & functional areas supporting them to understand their reported financial actuals, identifying balance sheet risks and opportunities.
It is essential that you can convey financial information to non-financial stakeholders at a senior level.
The Primary Responsibilities Of This Role Are
QUALIFICATIONS
Qualified Chartered Accountant or Certified Practicing Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with +5 years’ experience
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.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious finance professional looking to progress their experience within a FTSE listed construction business with a track record of delivering high profile infrastructure projects.
This is a critical role within the R2R function that involves collecting, processing, validating and presenting accurate financial data. Whilst also providing strategic, financial and operational feedback on the performance of the company to senior management.
The role will be involved in assisting in the set up and development of the R2R processes, supporting the Senior Finance Manager & providing delivery of day-to-day finance activities.
The role includes exposure to senior management of the group and other central finance functions, providing an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your ability for further advancement.
Responsibilities
You will provide financial information to a broad range of business unit owners & functional areas supporting them to understand their reported financial actuals, identifying balance sheet risks and opportunities.
It is essential that you can convey financial information to non-financial stakeholders at a senior level.
The Primary Responsibilities Of This Role Are
- Management & development of the Assistant Finance Manager & 2 graduates.
- Managing the Balance Sheet Reconciliation & Control processes for all entities, to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the general ledger to support management and statutory reporting.
- Review reconciliations to highlight high risk areas and work with the wider finance functions to ensure an acceptable outcome. Communicate to Senior management & the wider finance areas a monthly progress report
- Production of robust and timely financial results and support the business partners with their reported numbers for the main Costain Limited company.
- Manage & review the month end accounting close incorporating accruals, prepayments, fixed Asset accounting and reporting flash numbers for the main Costain Limited company.
- Reconciliation of the E1 numbers to the Management Accounts
- Manage the AGV process for CLRs
- Manage the Joint Arrangement numbers, understanding how the contracts work and building relationships with the wider business
- Manage the extended trial balance adjustments schedule
- Understanding of the profit reconciliation & support
- Manage the quarterly reporting on balance sheet numbers in Mercur
- Build relationships with both the FP&A team and Consolidation team
- Management and review of the Statutory ONS Returns.
- Management and review of the CIS Returns and statements.
- Management and development of the Graduate scheme within the team, ensuring smooth task transfers through placement handovers and mid-placement handovers for graduates.
- Drive standard processes through principles of simplification, standardisation, and, working with the wider teams, automation where appropriate.
- Monitoring efficiency, reporting targets and KPI’s to drive continuous improvement.
- Support Senior Finance Manager with risk areas both in the team &/or process control.
- Support Ad-hoc projects including system developments where necessary.
- Can remain calm and focused under pressure, handling challenging situations with composure. Adapts quickly to change in project plans or unexpected issues. Reflects on setbacks to identify lessons learned and applies these insights to future tasks. Encourages resilience in others, providing support and fostering a positive work environment.
- Can prepare, present and explain complex management reporting/financial performance and explain complex financial themes with relevant insights to improve business performance independent of support
- Ability to review and identify risk within the balance sheet. Ability to explain double entry and reconciliations to others.
- Can prepare and present management reporting and explain financial themes and relevant insights under supervision/guidance, can communicate financial results to non-finance communities and articulate results, challenges and risks, can identify trends within the numbers and takes appropriate action or communicates to management.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of accounting records and systems including nominal ledger coding structures. Can review ledgers to ensure accuracy. Understands requirement for separation of duties and able to identify potential areas of risk. Understands the purpose of internal controls and ensures they are followed.
- Excellent communication skills, with confidence to present to senior stakeholders.
- Ability to think strategically, challenge current processes and introduce improvements.
- Self-motivated and a self-starter, with the ability to build positive and effective relationships at all levels. Gravitas to influence, challenge, and support in a matrix environment.
- Displays strong commercial awareness, vigilant attention to the changing business environment and emerging opportunities and risks.
- Set and achieve high standards for themselves and for others, takes personal accountability for results, and monitors performance against pre-set objectives and performance standards.
- Identifies, anticipates, and navigates problems and obstacles to performance in an orderly and calm manner. Responds creatively to personal and team challenges.
- Communicates openly and honestly with others, listens to differing views and seeks to create a common understanding and agreement to proposed actions.
- Proven experience in a similar finance systems role.
- Management, development and co-ordination of small teams essential.
- Proven experience of process and systems optimisation.
- Collaboration with stakeholders and identifying financial anomalies
- Working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.
QUALIFICATIONS
Qualified Chartered Accountant or Certified Practicing Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with +5 years’ experience
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.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
