Senior Finance Manager DCU

Overview

Lead finance for DCU projects, managing budgets, costs, reporting and risk.

Key Responsibilities

• period reporting
• risk management
• capital planning
• ledger management
• budget management
• cost control

Tasks

-Manage period end reporting cycles. -Risk Management: Identify financial risks and implement strategies to mitigate them, ensuring compliance with financial regulations and industry standards. -Capital Planning: Assist in capital planning and investment decisions, evaluating the financial feasibility of tenders, net debt and ad hoc initiatives. -Working Capital Analysis: Monitor cash flow and liquidity, ensuring timely payments to vendors, subcontractors, and other stakeholders to maintain smooth project operations. -Market Analysis: Stay informed about market trends, economic indicators, and industry benchmarks, utilizing this information to make informed financial decisions and adapt financial strategies accordingly -Ensure compliance with Gated Business Lifecycle. -Financial Reporting: Prepare and present financial reports to senior management, providing insights into project performance, cost trends, KPI’s and overall financial health. -Ledger Management including Reconciliations, journals and validation of Revenue and profit reported. -Team Leadership: Lead, develop and mentor, fostering a collaborative and results-oriented work environment. -Budget Management: Develop and manage budgets for DCU projects, ensuring accurate cost estimations, and tracking expenditures against approved budgets. -Cost Control: Implement cost control measures to optimize project expenses without compromising quality, constantly seeking opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.

Requirements

• contract accounting
• analytical
• problem solving
• communication
• commercial
• stakeholder

What You Bring

-Act as a strong advocate for best practice, able to support and defend practical deployment and solutions, whilst remaining open to the ideas of others -Previous experience of contract accounting essential. -Experience of contract reviews, commercial proposals, business cases. -Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated ability to create quality, well organised financial analysis from multiple data sources. Attention to detail and accuracy required. -Proactive, problem-solving individual who takes full ownership and accountability of their work. -Strong communication, numerical and presentation skills including the ability to deliver reports orally and written in an objective and persuasive manner. -Confidence to work closely with the Commercial team and building good working relationships across the portfolio of project.

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Benefits

-25 days paid annual leave (pro rata) -Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more -Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave

About Balfour Beatty Plc

-It finances, designs, constructs and maintains roads, rail, energy plants, water systems, buildings and communities. -Active across the UK, US, Hong Kong and Canada, it's known for ventures like HS2, Crossrail and major highway upgrades. -Known for innovation, it uses digital tools, off-site manufacturing and automated plant to enhance safety and efficiency. -An unusual highlight: it pioneered the Automated Cone Laying Machine, boosting roadworker safety on live highways.

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