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Job Description
Capital Investment Division Finance Manager
Manage financial reporting, safeguard assets, and lead a team of accountants to deliver business strategy and improve financial performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver financial reporting requirements, including real financial and commercial understanding of project reporting.
- Safeguard assets and funding lines by ensuring adequate levels of reporting and accountability.
- Manage timely and accurate preparation of financial reporting to meet requirements.
- Maintain systems and controls to ensure adequate backup documentation and audit trail for transactions.
- Develop cross-functional teamwork and influencing skills to ensure objectives of the Finance function and Company are achieved.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Enhance and develop a standard project reporting template across all projects.
- Ensure periodic project reports are completed in a timely manner, reviewed, challenged, and updated for all pertinent information.
- Monitor project transactions, contracts, commitments, and POs in SAP and raise queries relating to these on an ongoing basis.
- Liaise with contracts teams to agree tax treatment and introduce controls to ensure transactions align with agreed tax treatment.
- Review project accruals and retentions at period end and maintain a register of all project bonds.
- Review unwinds and report on the status of all bonds at period end and understand project budget for each project.
- Monitor performance against budget, reforecast, and cash flow profiles on a periodic basis and investigate variance commentaries provided by the project team.
- Review change orders and contract variations to understand their impact on project budget and timing.
- Work with project quantity surveyors to understand actual project progress and contract out-turns.
- Work with project accountants to maintain ongoing project outturn estimates and updated project expenditure forecasts and cash flow forecasts.
- Review board papers prior to submission with the project accountant and challenge project cash flows to ensure they are robust.
- Develop and manage a suite of project KPI and trend reporting and report this information to the Head of Finance Capital Investments and the broader finance team at period end.
Essential Requirements:
- Qualified Accountant with minimum 8+ years post-qualification experience.
- Financial management experience, strong corporate governance aptitude, and commercial experience is required.
- Significant proven track record and experience in financial reporting, periodic end process, and managing to tight reporting deadlines.
- Proven ability to effectively lead a team of accountants.
Desirable:
- Ability to meet tight deadlines consistently providing timely, accurate, and relevant financial data, and to take end-to-end ownership for delivery.
- Motivated and a self-starter with initiative and a strong emphasis on delivery and execution.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Adaptability and initiative, strong sense of integrity and responsibility.
- Practical financial control experience and a track record of management experience operating at a high level in the organisation.
- Very strong communication skills.
- Project Management experience with ability to plan, initiate, monitor, and implement project deliverables within a team.
- Strong knowledge of FRS102 reporting requirements.
- Good working knowledge of SAP applications.