Finance Manager

Description

• Write high quality technical accounting papers to support key accounting applications and judgements.
• Support the production of accurate and timely external statutory reporting for the group and related Board papers.
• Set and achieve high standards for themselves and for others, takes personal accountability for results.
• Identifies, anticipates, and navigates problems and obstacles to performance in an orderly and calm manner.
• Support the business with technical accounting queries, reviewing papers/proposals where necessary.
• Assist in the maintenance and promotion (e.g. through training) of the Costain manual of accounting.
• Managing projects and investigating unusual or complex transactions recommending appropriate accounting treatment.
• Prepare and review legal entity financial statements, ensuring they are accurate and compliant with the relevant technical standards and the Companies Act.
• Develop the graduate placement in the team and ensure smooth task transfers through placement handovers.
• Drive standard processes through principles of simplification, standardisation, and, working with the wider team, automation where appropriate.
• Support the establishment and maintenance of an effective business control framework.
• Produce technical accounting calculations and disclosure notes for IFRS 16 leases, IFRS 9 expected credit loss model, IFRS 7 financial instruments, IFRS 2 share-based payments, IAS 33 earnings per share and IAS 24 related parties.
• Prepare and review legal entity consolidation packs, including ETB adjustments, on a quarterly basis, performing and understanding trend analysis on period movements.
• Deliver high quality audit deliverables for technical accounting calculations and support the coordination of the audit.

Requirements

• Display strong commercial awareness, vigilant attention to the changing business environment and emerging opportunities and risks.
• Experience producing financial statements.
• Demonstrable ability to form effective working relationships with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong technical accounting skills with a deep understanding of consolidation.
• Qualifications ACA or ACCA Qualified Accountant with documented proof of experience.
• Responds creatively to personal and team challenges.
• Ability to think strategically, challenge current processes and introduce improvements.
• Personal Attributes Self-motivated and a self-starter, with the ability to build positive relationships.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence to present to senior stakeholders.
• Experience in a similar finance role.
• 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.
• Experience of consolidation accounting preferred.
• Experience of process and systems optimisation; working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system, desirable.
• Communicates openly and honestly with others, listens to differing views and seeks to create a common understanding and agreement to proposed actions.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance