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 highly visible role, collaborating closely with business leaders, providing high-quality data analysis, reporting, and comprehensive financial support, specifically for key overhead functions. It provides a great opportunity to use your financial analysis skills alongside strong business partnering skills to engage and collaborate with senior financial and non-financial stakeholders and Exec members to provide key insights, cost analysis and control and transform the way we review these areas
The successful candidate will work as part of the Group Financial Planning and Analysis team, who are predominantly responsible for the provision of accurate and timely reporting, proactive analysis and relevant insight to the senior management team and Exec Board and the facilitation of the business plan, budget and quarterly forecast processes. It provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your ability for further advancement.
Responsibilities
You will be strong in your accounting capabilities being responsible for the financial reporting and output of the team ensuring accuracy and timeliness to tight deadlines. You must be able to identify risks and opportunities to support the strategy and business plan projections and drive sustainable profit growth.
It is essential that you are able to cultivate strong, trusted partnerships with business leaders and can apply a commercial mindset to operational and strategic decisions, can coach and support financial acumen and communicate actionable insights and opportunities.
The Primary Responsibilities Of This Role Are
- Provide financial support for the Consultancy Capability functions, including month end processes and deliverables, reporting, variance analysis, forecasting and budgeting and ad hoc queries
- Support the Consultancy finance business partner in supporting capability heads and discipline leads within these functional areas supporting them to understand their financial performance and identify risks and opportunities.
- Work closely with the Consultancy finance business partner in providing data and analysis to help capability heads and discipline leads owners to understand their business area.
- Support in delivery of financial insight to senior management to support the strategy and business plan projections and drive sustainable profit growth.
- Support in production of monthly financial presentation for the monthly MBR process.
- Support in the production of the Consultancy shadow P&L
- Analyse utilisation performance vs sector demand data (including underutilisation flowback)
- Financially model potential opportunities and strategies.
- Support the maintenance of the Power BI dashboards.
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS
Qualified Chartered Accountant or Certified Practicing Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with +5 years’ finance experience
Experience
Experience of management reporting and explanation of key drivers of variances.
Business Planning, budgeting, and forecasting experience.
Solid experience with month-end processes and reconciliation.
Working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.
Skills
Excellent communication skills, with confidence to present numbers to senior stakeholders and support budget and business plan predictions with solutions and challenge where necessary.
Ability to work independently and to tight timescales whilst maintaining a high level of attention to detail.
Strong analytical skills with diligence and an ethical approach to data including respecting the confidential nature of information and the associated decision making.
Personal Attributes
Self-motivated and a self-starter, with the ability to build positive effective relationships at all levels.
Ability to influence, challenge current processes and introduce improvements.
Display strong commercial awareness, vigilant attention to the changing business environment and emerging opportunities and risks.
Hands on approach to Operational Finance.
Set and achieve exacting standards for themselves and for others, takes personal accountability for results.
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 collective understanding and agreement to proposed actions.
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.
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