Balfour Beatty plc
Finance Automations Developer
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty's Finance Operations Automations team are recruiting for a junior developer, a role that involves building reports and automating digital processes. We are looking for applicants with an analytic mindset, who can identify problems and put forward solutions. In particular, we appreciate applicants with a strong background in finance operations, accounting services, or similar functions - an understanding of a range of existing processes and how they tick.
As a FA Developer, you will spend a lot of time working in Excel and should have a solid understanding of its core features. You will also be introduced to Power platform apps, including Power BI and Power Automate, and if needed will be trained in how to use these to automate the processes of other Operations teams, especially the movement of data and reporting that keeps the whole Finance function working. Opportunities are also available to advance your training through apprenticeships in Data and emerging technologies like AI for Business.
What you'll be doing
New Process Automations
- Use digital technology to automate office tasks within the Finance function. This is accomplished with the full suite of existent and emerging digital technologies, e.g. cloud computing, machine learning, digital robots and AI/copilot-enabled programming.
- Work with the Finance Transformation team, and the Finance Automations Product Manager, to ensure that automations are built to a common standard and that relevant documentation is filled out to a professional standard.
- Collaborate with end users to ensure that automations created for usage by other teams present a good user experience, including meaningful error messages and a comprehensible user guide.
- Where the responsibility for automated tasks needs to rest within the Automations team, ensure that timelines are clearly laid out and understood.
Automation Maintenance
- Support the business by providing support for existing automations built by the Automations team, including bug fixing, troubleshooting, configuration and re-training.
- Work with the Finance Automations Product Manager to carry out periodic reviews of previously created automations, updating and/or archiving tools appropriately when they are no longer fit for purpose.
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Centralised Process Automations (Including Robotic and AI-Agentic Automations)
- Where automations are complex and/or time-sensitive enough that they must be operated by the Automations team, ensure the timely and consistent delivery of such.
- Continue to drive “true” automation by converting manually triggered automation tools into robotically automated processes and/or data pipelines.
- Work with the IT Data Department to convert existing automations for data transfer into proper data pipelines, making data tables available through the Data Lake.
- Create and maintain live reports for key metrics using Power BI, to replace Excel-based reports currently being produced both within the team and by managers across Finance.
Who we're looking for
Essential
- Experience in Data visualisation
- Experience in Data for accounting services
- Experience in Finance operations processes
- Experience in AI for automated processes
- Experience in Requirements gathering
- Analytic thinking
- Curiosity
- Independent working
- Strong digital literacy
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
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About Us
Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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