Senior Finance Manager - Transformation in Stevenage

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine.

Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop.

Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

Join M Group as our Senior Finance Business Partner – Transformation and play an influential role in shaping the financial delivery of our transformation agenda.

You’ll partner with senior stakeholders across the business, providing trusted financial insight, leadership and challenge across strategic transformation programmes.

From strengthening financial governance and benefits tracking to providing clear performance analysis, you’ll help ensure our transformation initiatives deliver against their strategic and operational objectives.

What will you be doing?

• Finance Business Partnering
• Provide financial leadership and business partnering support across the Group's transformation portfolio, working closely with programme and platform leads to maximise value creation, margin improvement and operational efficiency.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of transformation initiatives across the Group, maintaining oversight of project costs, benefits, synergies and risks.
• Support the identification, validation and tracking of synergy and value creation programme (VCP) opportunities arising from integration activities.
• Challenge assumptions, business cases and investment proposals to improve decision quality, accelerate benefits delivery and enhance risk management.
• Build strong relationships with transformation, operational and finance stakeholders to drive accountability and successful programme delivery.
• Performance Reporting and Analysis
• Own the quarterly reporting of M&A and transformation performance against key financial and operational metrics, including EBITDA, capex and synergies.
• Lead the preparation of monthly ROPE reporting, partnering with divisional finance teams and transformation leaders to generate actionable insights.
• Deliver high-quality financial reporting, forecasting and analysis for transformation activities, ensuring alignment with Group forecasts.
• Produce insightful management information and commentary that supports executive decision-making and performance management.
• Governance and Programme Support
• Support the Transformation team in preparing materials, financial analysis and recommendations for key governance forums, including Steer Co.
• Represent Group Finance within programme governance structures and senior stakeholder meetings, providing independent challenge and support.
• Facilitate collaboration across initiatives by identifying interdependencies, sharing best practice and reducing duplication of effort.
• Work closely with external advisors and internal stakeholders to promote consistency and embed best-practice financial disciplines.
• Continuous Improvement
• Champion data-driven decision-making through the application of modern reporting, visualisation and automation tools.
• Support the ongoing development of transformation reporting, forecasting and benefits-tracking capabilities.
• Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and successful change delivery aligned to M Group's values and strategic objectives.

What you’ll bring

Essential

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
• Significant experience in a Finance Business Partnering FP&A or Commercial Finance role.
• Strong financial modelling, forecasting and business case development capabilities.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and Power Point skills, with the ability to distil complex information into clear and compelling management insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience influencing senior leaders and challenging constructively where required.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage both financial and non-financial audiences.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and evolving environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail and problem-solving capability.

Desirable

• Experience supporting transformation programmes, finance transformation, operational improvement initiatives or large-scale change projects.
• Experience of M&A integration, synergy tracking and value creation programmes.
• Knowledge of Power BI, Copilot, automation tools or other data visualisation technologies.
• Experience working with external advisors, consultants or programme management offices.
• Understanding of programme governance, benefits realisation and portfolio management methodologies.
• Personal Attributes
• Commercially minded with a strong focus on value creation.
• Resilient and adaptable, with the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
• Collaborative and relationship-oriented, capable of building credibility across a broad stakeholder group.
• Self-motivated and proactive, able to work autonomously while maintaining strong alignment with team objectives.
• Strong storytelling capability, translating complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights.
• Passionate about driving positive change and delivering tangible business outcomes.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• In addition, this role offers;
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you
• (and your family)
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference.

We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans.

Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note

Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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