Interim Senior Business Controller for Facilities Management in Manchester

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BAM UK & Ireland are recruiting an Interim Senior Business Controller for Facilities Management to join our finance team to be based from Farnborough, Manchester or Hemel Hempstead offices for a 12-month FTC.

• Delivery of efficient and effective strategic and operational financial leadership in support of the overall strategy and performance objectives of Business Unit(s) / Sector(s).
• Operate as a key member of the Management Team, and wider finance leadership group.
• Provide comprehensive high quality analysis to aid and support business decision making with focus on the use, rather than preparation, of data.
• Ensure compliance with Group and Segment specific business, financial and commercial procedures and policies.
• Responsible for a significant, large or complex Business area or Multiple Business areas.

• Contribute to the BAM Group vision and plan, translate this into a vision and plan for Finance.
• Align key stakeholders around the Finance vision, strategy and plan and communicate it internally as well as externally.
• Portfolio Analysis – aggregate data on BAM portfolio, transforming information into portfolio optimization ideas and driving the need for fact-based decision making in policy setting.
• M&A and Divestments - support the BAM group with making M&A and divestments decisions in the 'pre-deal' and 'post-deal' phases, providing considerations on funding acquisitions with debt & equity.

• Develop the capabilities, tools, techniques and models to enable finance to influence and drive better decision making in the organization.
• Rationalize and improve the production of management reporting and analysis across processes, commercial policy, people and technology.
• CAPEX Investments - supporting the Business area with analysis of and justification for CAPEX investments and post investment analysis.

• Determine the critical success factors, opportunities, risks and performance indicators linked with project lifecycle stages. Provide guidance and challenge in reviews.
• Project Reporting - develop standard reporting suite of project financial information to be used across the Sector.
• Tender Stage Gate Procedure (TSGP) - Assess the strategic goals regarding business development, pipeline quality and risk-return of tenders in the Tender Stage Gate Procedure.
• Advice on whether or not to tender, analyse risks, margins and other key controls and monitor sign-off procedures, in line with Stage Gate guidance.
• Position Paper Projects – share position papers with the auditor, helping them understand the position taken on the Projects in line with accounting standards i.e. IFRS15.

Leading the team of 9 and to be based from Farnborough, Manchester or Hemel Hempstead offices for a 12-month FTC.

A challenging and continuously changing environment in a forward thinking organisation. In addition to an attractive salary and benefits package, we support further personal growth and development.

• Construction / FM experience is essential.
• Significant experience of finance roles in large complex organisations.
• In-depth knowledge of sector related markets and regulatory environment.
• Significant experience of working directly alongside leadership teams in developing & delivering to strategy & business plans.
• Excellent understanding of the management systems, policies and processes that underpin a successful large complex enterprise.
• Significant experience of developing strong internal and external relationships to drive individual and business performance.
• Significant leadership experience of functional roles within large complex organisations, projects and programmes.
• Able to set out & act as consultant to senior stakeholders on the political, business and economic issues affecting customers and the market.
• Significant experience shaping a customer focused business.
• In-depth understanding of financial models and commercial business processes.
• Significant knowledge and evidence of setting a strategic agenda, portfolio & performance analysis & capex and business case analysis.
• Highly likely to have M&A experience.
• Significant knowledge and evidence of business planning, cost management (CTC), management reporting, statutory accountability & investment and accounting principles.
• Excellent knowledge on Accounting guidelines, IFRS and External reporting and can articulate to others.
• Significant knowledge and evidence of project budgeting & forecasting & reporting; risk and opp management & cash forecasting, likely on large complex projects.
• Very good awareness of and ability to actively engage with specialist and communicate risk and opportunity around corp finance, bonds & guarantees, financial logistics, structured finance and Investment tenders.
• Very good awareness of and ability to actively engage with specialist and communicate risk and opportunity around enterprise risk management, BRF and controls.
• Very good awareness of and ability to actively engage with specialist and communicate risk and opportunity around tax strategy, filing, accounting, transfer pricing, JV's, indirect and payroll taxes and supply chain tax liabilities.
• Understanding and experience of critical finance transactional operations and underlying control points and best practice.
• Interest in and desire to drive wider business to adopt best practice information and digital literacy, digital content creation, problem solving in a data environment, data strategy and planning, data analytics and data visualisation.
• Understand information, data and content in a digital environment & can develop and manage decisions and choices that align to an organisations data strategy and business strategy.

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