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Finance Administrator
  • United Kingdom - Wales - Cardiff -
1 year ago
Administrator
Full Time
Job Description

You’ll be empowered to ensure accurate and robust cost information and you will have direct responsibility for challenging the business.

You’ll be accountable for:

  • Reviewing and collating planning, budgeting and forecasting information, challenging assumptions and decisions, ensuring quality and consistency
  • Contributing to the monthly financial reporting cycle, including collation of data and calculation of monthly accruals, business partnering and challenging functional teams to ensure robustness and auditability of financial information
  • Providing insight and input into the presentation of timely, accurate and relevant management information alongside Project Controls to ensure alignment of cost and schedule
  • Ownership of the Cost Breakdown Structure of the project to enable a clean audit trail of expenditure, ensuring that all expenses and task orders are coded according to the agreed project structure
  • Challenging budget holders on financial decisions and identifying opportunities for cost savings with the core mind-set of “Value for Money” and Financial Control at all times
  • Working closely with HR Business Partner to ensure that staff cost information is reported in an accurate and robust manner
  • Working closely with Project teams to create forward looking cash forecasts, to enable Equity to be called on time and protect cash liquidity of Project
  • Supporting the external cost verification process including liaison with external regulatory bodies with regards to the future financing of the project
  • Implementing best practice financial behaviors and coaching the business in the importance and benefits of accurate financial information
  • Supporting enterprise wide change initiatives e.g. regulatory driven, cost or growth initiatives

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To be successful in this role you’ll be able to demonstrate:

  • A part-qualified accountant accreditation (CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW etc.) or be suitably qualified by experience.
  • Strong financial modelling skills.
  • Highly skilled in strategic planning, budgeting & forecasting.
  • Ability to co-ordinate financial activities (e.g. monthly reporting or business planning).
  • Strong management information analysis and reporting, presentation, problem solving and decision support skills.
  • Proven ability to build effective working level relationships across functions including at a senior level.
  • Strong knowledge of technical accounting standards.
  • Experience of financial systems (SAP).
  • Project experience working on large scale construction infrastructure.
  • Commercial awareness and knowledge of the energy sector.

Reference no: 73497

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