Finance Manager
Full Time
Job Description
- Ensure compliance with contractual documentation, statutory and regulatory frameworks and agreed programmes and procedures.
- Attend monthly management accounts reviews and instruct the Accounting Team by providing the project specific financial procedures and information.
- Instruct the Accounting Team of payments to be made to shareholders and senior debt providers.
- Manage the payment authorization process.
- Undertake regular reviews of the monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
- Manage the business planning and operating financial model update process, including presentation to the Board and securing funder approval.
- Manage the key stakeholder relationships including the Board, Funder, account bank, client finance representative and rating agencies.
- Act as Company Secretary in accordance with HCP’s Company Secretarial Handbook, including advising the Board on their statutory and fiduciary duties.
- Contribute to the preparation of the Board report, including the finance report and executive summary.
- Attend Board meetings and present the finance report.
- Maintain and update the Projects’ financial and company secretarial policies.
- Advise the Board of risks and opportunities and make recommendations for actions.
- Manage the financial aspects of any project commercial activity (variations, lifecycle expenditure, benchmarking, market testing), ensuring correct reflection in the financial models and the project documentation.
- Ensure the financial model is consistent with all contractual, commercial and regulatory obligations.
- Manage aged debtors and aged creditors and resolution of overdue items.
- Manage the statutory audit process and secure approval of the statutory accounts.
- Review the annual operating budget and reconcile to the operating financial model prior to presentation to the Board and Funders.
- Engage the support of the commercial finance team and modelling team on key relevant matters.
- Participate in the development of the finance function, team and systems.
- Carry out other duties that fall within professional expertise.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- At least 4 years post qualified experience.
- Experience in communicating, influencing and presenting at senior level.
- Experience working within a compliance focused environment.
- Ability to identify potential issues surrounding a piece of complex legislation or policy and provide easily understood verbal and written analysis material and advice that is clear and comprehensive.
- Strong working knowledge of financial management and project finance.
- Maintenance of complex financial models using Microsoft Excel
- Clearly communicate technically complex financial issues, combined with effective influencing skills at all levels.
- Communicate effectively, even when challenged, the reasoning behind an opinion and recommendation with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify and analyze issues and provide expert technical advice to stakeholders.
- Interpret and comply with complex contractual obligations, and develop and apply an expert knowledge of contracts to make sure that others are compliant.
- Present financial information in a professional report style and prepare and articulate any relevant commentaries to a high standard of written English.
- Apply a commercial aptitude and understanding to financial scenarios.
- Utilize various financial software packages and Microsoft applications.
- Priorities, adhere to schedules and work to tight deadlines in a pressurized environment.
- Present oneself in a manner one would expect from a professional advisor, overtly abiding by a strict code of conduct and striving for high standards at all times.
- Comfortable to share lessons learnt with peer group. • Confidence to challenge others where non-compliance is observed.
- Interact well with colleagues and support the wider team by being alert to the challenges faced by colleagues.
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).
- Current membership of a recognized accounting body.
Reference no: 103423