Finance Manager
Company
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/22/2025
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Description
Job Description
The Finance Manager will report into the Head of Finance and provide financial leadership for a portfolio of projects within the Thames Water Framework. The role will link the day to day finance function, and the Commercial outputs to report clear financial performance across the portfolio. Providing financial control and insights on financial performance and act as a champion to deliver change / best practice.
The Finance Manager will be expected to travel to our Project Office (currently in Camberley, Surrey) or London at least 3 days a week.
There will be a requirement to travel to our Finance shared service office in Long Eaton, Derbyshire on an adhoc basis.
Responsibilities
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
The Finance Manager will report into the Head of Finance and provide financial leadership for a portfolio of projects within the Thames Water Framework. The role will link the day to day finance function, and the Commercial outputs to report clear financial performance across the portfolio. Providing financial control and insights on financial performance and act as a champion to deliver change / best practice.
The Finance Manager will be expected to travel to our Project Office (currently in Camberley, Surrey) or London at least 3 days a week.
There will be a requirement to travel to our Finance shared service office in Long Eaton, Derbyshire on an adhoc basis.
Responsibilities
- Support the contract teams in managing the financial performance of the contract, and accurately reporting and forecasting the results of the contract. This includes the preparation and review of the Contract Leaders’ Report (CLR) to ensure that it adequately reflects the status of the contract, and that the financial performance is being reported in line with Group guidelines and Financial Reporting Standards
- Contract Accounting - integrity of costs, revenue ledgers and transaction processing
- WIP reconciliations and associated actions to drive cash flow improvement
- Balance sheet review of other items and associated actions
- Maintenance of sound financial processes and controls, in line with Group guidelines, ensuring that all applicable requirements can be met
- Input into project budgeting/forecasting, covering all aspects of forecasting, including revenue/profit, cash etc
- Finance point of contact for internal, external and client audits
- Lead and manage the finance team supporting the development of the team, performance management, succession planning etc
- Control, forecast and accurately report the Fee Based Cost position on each scheme
- Drive improvements to improve process and reporting
- Significant experience with a Construction business
- Experience in accounting for long term contracts and staff cost modelling
- Strong business partner able to communicate effectively with senior management
- Excellent excel and financial modelling skills
- Hands on approach to operational finance, comfortable with detail but able to communicate the wider picture
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
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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