Costain Group PLC
Finance Analyst
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JOB DESCRIPTION
This is a critical role that involves collecting, processing, validating, and presenting accurate financial data.
Whilst also providing strategic, financial, and operational feedback on the performance of the company to senior management.
The role will have responsibility for the management of the financial analysis for the main group companies, assisting in the management of the working capital reporting.
The role includes exposure to project teams and other finance functions, in particular the FP&A team, providing an excellent opportunity for a varied role with regular challenges. It provides the ability to work with a wide variety of teams from different functional backgrounds and the opportunity for continuous improvement.
For Internal Reference: Generic Job Description - FING01 - Finance Analyst .pdf
Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES
Within the team you will be a source of subject matter expertise.
The Primary Responsibilities Of This Role Are:
- Assist the Finance Manager - O2C with the daily cash reporting ensuring all the payments and receipts are identified.
- Assist with the posting of the Costain bank statements each day, ensuring all the transactions on the cashbook are accurately cleared and matched to the relevant payments made and/or received.
- Resolve queries, to ensure the JV debtors’ ledgers for the group continue to reflect an accurate representation of the debtor position.
- Maintain the central reporting of the debtor position and risks within the JV debtor balances for reporting.
- Prepare the WIP and group debt reporting.
- Assist with the balance sheet reconciliations, resolving any queries arising to ensure balances are controlled and include only justifiable entries.
- Work with project teams and with the treasury team in setting up or removing bank accounts when projects are set up or finish.
- Support Ad-hoc projects including system developments where necessary.
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Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Experience in a finance role
- Experience of process and systems optimisation.
- Collaboration with stakeholders and identifying financial anomalies.
- Desirable experience in managing cashflows and working capital management.
- Working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.
- Understands the importance of resilience in facing challenges. Adapts quickly to change in project plans or unexpected issues. Demonstrates persistence in completing tasks despite challenges. Encourages resilience in others, providing support and fostering a positive work environment.
- Can prepare basic management reporting, can make basic interpretations of management information and reports and provide simple comments and insight, accurately interpret basic financial reports. Able to interrogate and explain cost entries.
- Can prepare and present management reporting and explain financial themes and relevant insights under supervision/guidance, can communicate financial results to non-finance communities and articulate results, challenges, and risks, can identify trends within the numbers and takes appropriate action or communicates to management.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of accounting records and systems including nominal ledger coding structures. Can review ledgers to ensure accuracy. Understands requirement for separation of duties and able to identify potential areas of risk.
- Understands the purpose of internal controls and ensures they are followed.
- Excellent communication skills, with confidence to present to senior stakeholders.
- Ability to think strategically, challenge current processes, and introduce improvements.
Essential Qualifications
Part Qualified Chartered Accountant or Certified Practicing Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
About Us
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation, and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising, and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation, or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation, and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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