Financial Controller
Full Time
Job Description
- Preparation of detailed, informative business cases, annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
- Working closely/partnering with project managers to ensure that costs, heads and time are accurately captured and understood
- Timely and accurate preparation of monthly financial status reports for board meetings
- Dealing with all budgeting and forecasting queries for the programme / project.
- Provide challenge to the different Programme Senior Members responsible for the budgeting/forecasting
- Implementing effective financial controls for the programme / projects
- Ensure all costs are correctly captured within the Programme
- Ensure month end activities are conducted correctly for the Programme.
- Review and challenge the programme / project headcount, direct and capital expenditure requirements, ensuring value for money.
- Monitoring actual and forecast spend against budget/plans and ensure effective use of early key warning indicators for reporting.
- Maintain the programmes ongoing cost view, with regular interlock with BAU areas.
- Provide insightful programme / project cost commentary/variance analysis to Central Finance on a monthly basis.
- Acting as an acknowledged financial expert for the programme / project
- Working collaboratively with the rest of the Finance team on a monthly and ad-hoc basis to ensure all deliverables and requests can be met in a timely and accurate manner.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- The successful candidate will be a commercially minded experienced accountant, with a deep understanding of the financial control aspects for Technology programmes and projects using an Agile model mind set. Specifically:
- Qualified accountant with extensive experience supporting large and complex programmes as a dedicated Finance Business Partner or Project Accountant.
- Experience of IT Finance from an FP&A / business partnering perspective
- Experience of business cases, budgeting / forecasting, financial control and reporting processes in relation to programmes and projects.
- Experience in embedding and maintaining the necessary processes and controls to ensure financial control for the programme and ensure value for money.
- Proven ability to communicate at all appropriate levels within the programme, business area and within multiple functions.
- Confirmed ability to develop effective stakeholder relationships.
- Strong Excel and project forecasting / management accounting system experience
- Accustomed to dealing with ad hoc requests and working to tight deadlines.
- A team player, willing to get involved across the programme and the wider finance community to ensure all objectives are met
- Experience gained from supporting a wide range of large programmes / projects.
- A self-starter with the ability to priorities effectively and juggle varying priorities and deadlines across a range of topics
- Strong Stakeholder Management skills
- SC/CTC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role; as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks
- Active SC/CTC Clearance
Reference no: 98600