Finance Manager

The Finance Manager will work closely with the Senior Finance Manager. The role will support the Project and Commercial Management teams to enable continued growth of the business providing financial insight, strong operational control, timely reporting, and robust management of accounts receivable and payable for the sector.

Responsibilities

• Manage the month end close and reporting cycle.
• Ownership of all aspects of cost management projects including the balance sheet accruals and prepayments, monthly forecasting, staff cost recoveries.
• Consolidation of all CLRs (Contract Leader Reports) within Transportation Consultancy in Financial Summary pack and publish financial commentary for review.
• Support financial and management reporting through CLR reports, producing and attending monthly CLR reviews.
• Lead the ongoing development and delivery of monthly Power BI reports on project results and KPIs.
• Review, analyse and present Transportation Consultancy financial performance to key stakeholders, including Sector Directors.
• Project Debtor review of Cash Expected and Accrued Income.
• Discuss and generate positive approach to change including implementing improved ways of undertaking tasks in support of the Finance Transformation.
• Develop and maintain strong team relationships at all levels of the business, including working collaboratively with our stakeholders.

Financial Controls

• Investigate & respond to queries from Group Finance team as required.
• Compliance reviews of financial controls, in line with company guidelines, ensuring that all applicable requirements can be always met.
• Monitor best practice of PO, GRNI and invoice matching processes and manage the monthly Purchase Card reconciliation and journal reallocations.
• Preparing and reviewing the balance sheet reconciliations.
• Effective management of accounts receivables and payables including liaising with clients for timely receipt of cash payments.
• Monthly Staff Utilisation Reporting to senior management.
• Management and administration of the AMS IT costs for staff to ensure accuracy.
• Administration of staff agency suppliers through the Engage platform.
• Provide financial support, insight and validity for Consultancy Bids.
• Other ad hoc duties to support the wider Transportation Division.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and an ethical approach to data including respecting the confidential nature of information and the associated decision making.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence to present numbers to senior stakeholders.
• Displays strong commercial awareness, vigilant attention to the changing business environment and emerging opportunities and risks.
• Experience of management reporting and variance analysis.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders and communicating financial insights.
• Budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Ability to think strategically, challenge current processes and introduce improvements.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, experience with Microsoft Power BI reporting.
• Experience of working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.
• Hands on approach to Operational Finance.
• Demonstrate ability to meet reporting deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively in a virtual team environment and help others to do so.

Desirable

• Experience in a similar role.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree qualified.
• Newly Qualified Accountant with recognised professional body.

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery.

Our culture and values underpin everything we do. Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.