Finance Manager
The Home, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 2 weeks ago
Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious finance professional who is looking to progress their career and to work as part of a FTSE 250 listed construction business with a track record of delivering high profile infrastructure solutions.
As construction, consulting, and digital partners we engineer solutions to meet critical national needs. Our people transform the performance of the infrastructure that connects, protects, and powers people's lives.
Costain provide engineering services/delivery partner in Energy resilience, transition and transmission networks.
The Finance Manager for the Energy sector will be the custodian of all financial information for the sector and collaborate with the leadership team to drive performance both for Costain and the clients.
The role will work closely with the wider Natural Resources finance team, including the Sector Finance Business Partner and Divisional Finance Director, to provide insight and confidence and deliver outputs according to the business reporting cycle.
This role is home based with travel to our London/Manchester and Aberdeen offices.
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 who is looking to progress their career and to work as part of a FTSE 250 listed construction business with a track record of delivering high profile infrastructure solutions.
As construction, consulting, and digital partners we engineer solutions to meet critical national needs. Our people transform the performance of the infrastructure that connects, protects, and powers people's lives.
Costain provide engineering services/delivery partner in Energy resilience, transition and transmission networks.
The Finance Manager for the Energy sector will be the custodian of all financial information for the sector and collaborate with the leadership team to drive performance both for Costain and the clients.
The role will work closely with the wider Natural Resources finance team, including the Sector Finance Business Partner and Divisional Finance Director, to provide insight and confidence and deliver outputs according to the business reporting cycle.
This role is home based with travel to our London/Manchester and Aberdeen offices.
- At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.
- Support the contract teams in managing the financial performance of the contracts
- Own the process for managing and generating high quality and reliable financial information and support other functions, including commercial, with generating joined up sector reporting.
- Support the preparation of the monthly sector performance pack, including explaining both financial and non-financial performance
- Ensure financial control, governance, segregation of duties & process flows are fit for purpose and in line with Group guidelines
- Ensure that all cash book, accounts receivable, accounts payable and general ledger books of entry and processes are administered in an accurate and timely manner work closely with the Costain Finance Shared Service Centre
- All aspects of cost and time management with process flows to client invoicing and payment
- Analyse, track, report and forecast revenue generated from professional services type activities including rates, utilisation and profit / margin
- Maintain accurate records of all hours worked by all directly employed labour by setting up and maintaining appropriate systems and procedures, ensuring accurate timesheet generation and cost allocation on a weekly basis
- Maintain monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations with actions plans
- Finance point of contact for internal, external and client audits
- Experience in a similar role partnering with leaders to drive performance (desirable)
- Qualified accountant with a recognised professional body (or near qualified)
- Commercially aware and able to provide data-led insight and convey financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, able to relate in a confident manner to people at all levels, both verbal and written
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and an ethical approach to data including respecting the confidential nature of information and the associated decision making
- Developing and implementing new processes, tools, controls and reporting
- Hands on capability to use new systems and processes
- Microsoft Office suite of software with expertise of Excel
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
