Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Experience

• Experience in a P2P function, preferably in a Shared Services environment.
• Broad understanding of the P2P accounts payable processes.
• Collaborating with stakeholders, sites, and project accountants and communicating payment insights.
• Open to change and integration of finance systems and processes.

Skills

• Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
• Must have a desire to learn, work independently, and possess strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to multitask, be flexible, and prioritize effectively in a busy, dynamic environment, demonstrating a willingness to tackle challenges.
• Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail and an ethical approach to data including respecting the confidential nature of information and the associated decision making.
• Highly organized and professional with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Intermediate Excel skills preferred – v-lookup, Pivot, etc.
• Ability to think strategically, challenge current processes, and introduce improvements.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, fostering good team spirit and collaboration among diverse stakeholders.

Personal Attributes

• Self-motivated and a self-starter, with the ability to build positive relationships.
• A positive can-do attitude, especially when faced with challenges and time constraints.
• Hands-on approach to Operational Finance.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and help others to do so.
• Set and achieve high standards for themselves and for others, takes personal accountability for results, and monitors performance against pre-set objectives and performance standards.
• Identifies, anticipates, and navigates problems and obstacles to performance in an orderly and calm manner. Responds creatively to personal and team challenges.
• Communicates openly and honestly with others, listens to differing views, and seeks to create a common understanding and agreement to proposed actions.

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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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