About The Role

Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join Balfour Beatty's CPS team as a Finance Business Partner and build something to be proud of. The role can be based from either South Mimms or Leatherhead.

Responsibilities

• Overall financial management responsibility for the supporting the Financial Manager, to include the provision of meaningful and accurate financial information, with insightful interpretation and analysis.
• To partner with appropriate Directorates and cost centres to support them in achieving their financial objectives.
• To communicate wider business objectives to the operational directorates via the budgeting process, and to achieve ownership of those objectives by the cost centre leads through education, participation in target setting, and their involvement in the monthly review of financial performance.
• To work as part of the senior team managing the relevant directorates / cost centres.
• To embrace and lead change as the key to continuous improvement and help to embed a cultural shift from solely delivery, to delivery of both programme and financial performance.
• Ensuring robust cost capture at project level which is fully reconciled to business management accounts.
• To represent the relevant directorates / cost centres at SMT and Finance SLT levels.

What you'll be doing

• Responsible for budgeting and forecasting and, reporting of the financial performance of the relevant cost centres.
• To coach and support cost centre managers, through a process of education and participation, to own delivery of their budgets.
• For each significant deliverable, to challenge the quality of inputs to ensure the integrity of the directorates’/ cost centres’ financial reporting.
• Where appropriate, overall management of WIP for the directorates, ensuring prompt conversion of work performed to cash.
• To maintain the Risk & Opportunities schedule for the directorates.
• Responsible for tracking and control of Finance related queries.
• Lead the monthly internal financial review with the directorate / cost centre leads and represent the directorates / cost centres at the Senior Management Team Finance Review.
• Support cost centre leads with finance related issues.
• Assist with the financial management of each project, aid in ad-hoc detail drill down on key variances and transfer identified misallocation through cross charging to other Directorates.
• Undertake an annual review of processes and procedures. Review applicability and eliminate waste.
• Work with the Commercial Managers to validate sub-contract costs across all projects and activities including robust accrual management.
• Support the development of skills and competency across the wider Finance team as required.
• To produce monthly management accounts, including variance analysis and supporting narrative.
• Responsible for all internal Financial Reporting, including Directorate reports detailing current performance, opportunities and threats anticipated by the cost centres in meeting budget targets.
• To support cost centre managers in the run up to, and during, the monthly Finance SLT meeting. Production and management of the Staff Utilisation process, undertake a monthly review of staff time recovery and reconcile staff time capture to budget estimates and targets set.
• Identify, investigate and resolve anomalies arising in the course of monthly reporting.
• Production of ad-hoc financial reports
• Maximise directorate profitability through effective time recording and recovery.
• Minimise miscoding of transactions through education and review.
• Oversee the opening and closing of task numbers to ensure the application of a consistent methodology and avoid duplication.
• To own the process for the reciprocal invoicing / invoicing of applications from Connect Plus Services to Connect Plus to maximise our cash flow and minimise our WIP.
• Live and demonstrate the CPS Values.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities