Finance Manager
Full Time
Job Description
- Works closely with the PMO, Local change management and FDs team to carry out the Portfolio Monitoring of a range of Project Finance transactions
- Investment Committee finance ownership
- Validating financials in pipeline ideas
- Provide benefits realization tracking once projects have closed
- Reviewing and challenging financials, business cases and closure reports as they are submitted to PMO (and work directly with the geo FD on queries)
- Work with projects on actuals and reporting (streamlined, consistent and embed standard process to review)
- Support in the forward looking spend demands from the functions/geos as part of the change roadmap process that PMO uphold
- Partnering with Project Owners to develop accurate forecasts of Project costs
- Validate portfolio reporting numbers for board with Finance
- Ensures focus on change project spend is clear and accurate for exec
- Defines and ensures adherence to standards for accounting in project management
- Accountable for financial baselines post IC and pre project tracking
- Develop sound professional working relationships with stakeholders, colleagues and business partners, building confidence and developing a deep understanding of the business
- Works closely with finance teams, Financial Operations and Group, in the provision of information to business colleagues
- Able to build relationship and interact with senior executives and management level stakeholders.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Previous project management experience or able to demonstrate proven experience in a similar role within a Finance department or environment
- Ability to assimilate impact of issues and act on own initiative but with guidance where necessary to provide business solutions to achieve strategic objectives of the Business
- Qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA
- Ability to work unsupervised and deliver high quality work to tight deadlines
- Commercial acumen / ability to understand multiple functions/ the business end to end
- A committed team player
- Strong analytical skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to develop effective relationships across functional areas
- Self-motivated
- Advance Microsoft Excel skills
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