Finance Manager - FP&A

Overview

Provide FP&A insights, budgeting, reporting and financial decision support for APD projects.

Key Responsibilities

• financial control
• invoicing
• cashflow management
• budget forecasting
• performance monitoring
• compliance management

Tasks

-Review proposals, including assessment of financial aspects of contracts to facilitate invoicing and payments -Interpret monthly management accounts; control financial performance, profitability, utilisation, overheads, and working capital -Maintain high standards of financial control and professional development -Monitor the financial control environment and ensure completion of annual controls matrices -Assure compliance with Group Directives, including insurances, trade licences, registrations, statutory accounts, tax, audits, and internal controls -Drive working capital management: optimise invoicing, collections, cashflow, and remittances -Work as a part of finance team and project managers in challenging the status quo and fostering continuous improvement -Work with Group/Regional Finance, Treasury, Tax, and Shared Service teams to enhance project delivery -Engage in finance improvement projects and build positive relationships across the business -Set objectives and KPIs for performance monitoring and quality measurement -Build strong relationships with project teams and the wider business, sharing best practice and driving a unified culture -Review financial performance, identify opportunities, and direct actions -Attend monthly project control meetings for major and high-risk projects -Team Leadership:Create environments that motivate people to do exceptional work and encourage adoption of new technologies. -Support preparation of annual budgets and forecasts aligned with business plans -Accountable for finance decision-making and planning -Attend executive and management board meetings, providing strategic direction for the division/unit -Partner with the management team in preparing and evaluating business plans -Support staff in maintaining project control systems and provide finance training to ensure accurate project budgets and revenue recognition

Requirements

• financial governance
• accounting qualification
• financial reporting
• stakeholder management
• senior level
• team leadership

What You Bring

-Comprehensive expertise in financial governance, planning, budgeting, and forecasting -Professional accounting qualification or equivalent experience -Commercial:Demonstrate commercial agility and risk mitigation. Teamwork: Work cooperatively with others and support teamwork across locations. -Experience:Provide quality advisory services and demonstrate strong stakeholder management. -Cambridge location and willingness to travel, mainly across the UK -Professional Excellence and Qualifications: Demonstrate a passion for continual learning and promote the use of global network systems. -Ability to analyse complex financial data and present clear, actionable insights -Experience operating at a senior level and influencing key stakeholders -Communication: Communicate confidently and listen to others’ opinions and views. -Proficiency in financial reporting tools -Ability to align financial strategies with business objectives -Experience leading and developing a team -Written Skills: Produce clear and logical written communication and presentations.

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Benefits

-Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too. -A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme. -Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues. -Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues. -Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid. -Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers. -Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave. -A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options. -Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments. -Primary annual professional institution subscription. -Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary. -Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service. -A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family. -Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing. -We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%. -Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury. -As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes. -Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.

About Mott Macdonald

-Delivering complex projects that require both technical expertise and strategic vision. -Design of major infrastructure and transport systems. -Specializing in sustainable solutions to address challenges and capitalize on opportunities. -History built on innovation and forward-thinking engineering, consistently delivering impactful results.

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Visa Sponsorship

-mott macdonald does not offer skilled worker visa sponsorship. -candidates must be eligible for alternative uk immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.