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