Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious finance professional looking to progress their experience within a FTSE listed construction business with a track record of delivering high profile infrastructure projects.


This is a critical role within the R2R function that involves collecting, processing, validating and presenting accurate financial data. Whilst also providing strategic, financial and operational feedback on the performance of the company to senior management.


The role will be involved in assisting in the set up and development of the R2R processes, supporting the Senior Finance Manager & providing delivery of day-to-day finance activities.


The role includes exposure to senior management of the group and other central finance functions, providing an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your ability for further advancement.



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Essential

Qualified Chartered Accountant or Certified Practicing Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with proven track record experience

Responsibilities

You will provide financial information to a broad range of business unit owners & functional areas supporting them to understand their reported financial actuals, identifying balance sheet risks and opportunities.


It is essential that you can convey financial information to non-financial stakeholders at a senior level.

The primary responsibilities of this role are:

Team management & development of 2 direct reports Management of the first line reviews of the overhead business unit results, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of the financial results Review and sign off all balance sheet reconciliations for the 'Overhead and entity accounting team', ensuring any adjustments are rectified on a timely basis. Adding assistance where necessary to resolve issues. Management and review of all postings. Ensure all journal entries are accurate and input to timetable. Management of the Fixed Asset Register, ensuring all amortisation and depreciation journals are posted and reconciled each month. Ensure a process is in place to pick up capital items expensed to ensure the correct tax treatment can be obtained. Management of the insurance recharges, ensuring the relevant journals and/or invoices are prepared for both Lysander and recharged to the appropriate entities. Maintain the insurance Masterfile and updating between company forecast and actuals. Liaise with procurement on any changes to the insurance cover to include any risks and concerns with invoices being received. Investigate & manage invoices, corrections and rebates. Management and review of the VAT reconciliation, working with the tax team to ensure any changes are administered and queries dealt with in a timely manner. Deal with queries from project teams due to allowable/disallowable recharge to client and recovery charge rates ensuring corrections defined. Manage Audit, PWC queries and RDEC information requests from KPMG Monitoring efficiency, reporting targets and KPI's to drive continuous improvement. Support Ad-hoc projects including system developments where necessary.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

Experience

Experience in a similar finance systems role. Management, development and co-ordination of small teams essential. Proven experience of process and systems optimisation. Collaboration with stakeholders and identifying financial anomalies Working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.

Skills

Can remain calm and focused under pressure, handling challenging situations with composure. Adapts quickly to change in project plans or unexpected issues. Reflects on setbacks to identify lessons learned and applies these insights to future tasks. Encourages resilience in others, providing support and fostering a positive work environment. Can prepare, present and explain complex management reporting/financial performance and explain complex financial themes with relevant insights to improve business performance independent of support Can prepare and present management reporting and explain financial themes and relevant insights under supervision/guidance, can communicate financial results to non-finance communities and articulate results, challenges and risks, can identify trends within the numbers and takes appropriate action or communicates to management. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of accounting records and systems including nominal ledger coding structures. Can review ledgers to ensure accuracy. Understands requirement for separation of duties and able to identify potential areas of risk. Understands the purpose of internal controls and ensures they are followed. Excellent communication skills, with confidence to present to senior stakeholders. Ability to think strategically, challenge current processes and introduce improvements.

Personal Attributes

Self-motivated and a self-starter, with the ability to build positive and effective relationships at all levels. Gravitas to influence, challenge, and support in a matrix environment. Displays strong commercial awareness, vigilant attention to the changing business environment and emerging opportunities and risks. Set and achieve high standards for themselves and for others, takes personal accountability for results, and monitors performance against pre-set objectives and performance standards. Identifies, anticipates, and navigates problems and obstacles to performance in an orderly and calm manner. Responds creatively to personal and team challenges. * Communicates openly and honestly with others, listens to differing views and seeks to create a common understanding and agreement to proposed actions.