Job Description

• To have up to date knowledge of project and operational risks, identifying and highlighting as appropriate to the Project Director/Project Principals and guiding them to ensure a successful financial project outcome.
• Partnering with the Discipline Directors to ensure engineering teams are util effectively and enabling them to achieve their financial KPI’s.
• To review and consolidate the budgets and forecast cycle, ensuring a realistic and focussed budget is submitted aligned to strategy.
• To uphold and control the integrity of all financial data, in particular revenue recognition.
• To lead and coach an established team across multiple offices to ensure they are providing a high level of service across the region.
• Enable Regional Accountants to form a successful partnership with our Project Operations team to share knowledge and information which supports business decision making.
• Ensuring team meet all financial deadlines per the financial calendar and per their office/project portfolio.
• Provide leadership and guidance to your direct reports as stated above ensuring meaningful career conversations and mentoring is provided to allow them to thrive in their roles.
• Liaise with other group and regional finance teams and successfully contribute to knowledge share and wider projects and initiatives where appropriate.
• Management accounts review and consolidation.
• Control and management of UK Regional costs and ensuring alignment to budget.
• Manage quarterly WIP Reporting.
• Coordinate audit documentation.
• Key contact for utilization and cost rates, ensuring accurate information and updates are disseminated.
• Review Revenue Forecast & Pipeline, future revenue and costs reporting, highlighting and challenging areas of concern to improve performance.
• Preparing any statutory reporting requirement and coordinate audit documentation.

What we offer:

• Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience of having operated at a similar level of responsibility, providing technical accounting and financial information along with guiding and supporting strategic and tactical decision making.
• Experience of managing a team positively and effectively to deliver results.
• Highly organized with the proven ability to priorities and work to tight deadlines.
• Confident, proactive character, with the ability to take the lead in challenging situations; able to work unsupervised and use own initiative.
• Strong presenter of financial data with excellent communication skills and demonstrable attention to detail.
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills; the ability to set up and maintain supporting financial systems.
• Experience of advising and coaching senior leadership teams on financial matters.
• Ability to impact and influence multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrates a high level of personal resilience, able to tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Able to escalate matters as appropriate in a timely manner.
• Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA
• Continually develops expertise through links with professional and industry bodies.
• Actively applies the appropriate legislation, theories or knowledge relating to their specialism.