At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
Our Finance team is an integral part of the business, achieving best in class performance and control through a breadth of specialty Finance Functions. With a finance lens, we help develop, track and communicate progress on an agenda that maximizes long term shareholder value creation.
Our Guiding Principles:- We value our people and our reputation.
- We are locally dedicated with international scale.
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
- We foster collaboration in everything we do.
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.
The role sits within a Business Finance team aligned to one of our larger UK Disciplines and will report to the Discipline Financial Controller (DFC), depending on the discipline structure. Primary responsibilities of the SFM include helping to drive and oversee the business finance team in their partnering to the operational team leads across their region / service.
A typical month would include:- Annual budgeting & forecasting in accordance with strategy & business plans.
- Support operational teams and business finance team during monthly revenue recognition process
- Ownership of Profit Centre level management reporting and analysis as well as responsibility to support direct reports in their respective region / service
- Ensuring variance between budgets, forecasts and actual results are understood, clearly explained and necessary actions are implemented at both centre and region / service level
- Overall responsibility for Project performance review of; income, cost to complete, working capital and change control across region / service
- Line management of direct reports and responsibility for their development as per agreed goals and areas of focus
- Ensuring Corporate Governance, control and best practice is understood and communicated effectively to the business.
- Wider duties will include deputising in senior management meets, bid support, financial and strategic integration, commercial training and project team working.
- Qualified, with Accountancy qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
- Advanced Experience of Business Partnering with a finance background.
- Experience of team leadership.
- Internal candidates applying for this role need to have worked at a Finance Manager level and have consistently demonstrated delivery above expectation.
- Experienced within functional specialism
- Experienced in functional or small team leadership
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Join our close knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
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