*This Role sits inside IR35* This role is a contract role
Reports To: Financial Controlling Team Leader
Key Purpose of Role: To ensure the effective financial control of various designated projects & bids.
Key Tasks:
Costing & Bidding
1. Operate as finance lead on bidding activities, reviewing & validating bid costings prepared by Engineering, ensuring financial criteria are correctly applied (e.g. foreign currency, customer approved rates, profit margins, taxation, provisions & contingencies).
2. Work with Bid manager to determine appropriate milestone payment plans to ensure the most favourable cash position.
3. Assist bid managers with RMC pack preparation.
4. Work with Bid team to ensure compliance with the Bid Process.
Project Control
1. Regular review of project actual costs, commitments and forecasts with the Project team & project managers, in conjunction with the project schedule.
2. Work closely with project managers to ensure financial objectives are met and play a key role within the project decision-making process, acting as the “CFO” of the project.
3. Regular review of overall financial project health and steering of recovery actions (e.g. cash, debtors, in-year financial trading position).
4. Presentation of financial status in relevant management reviews.
5. Regular review of the project risk register ensuring a strong risk management culture and financial link.
6. Work across functions to resolve queries, mitigate issues, and ensure project data is of the highest quality.
7. Providing required management accounting project data according to the reporting schedule of the business, including sales, profit & cash flow quarterly forecasting.
8. Management of all customer financial reporting requirements & interaction with customer’s financial/reporting tools for both bids and projects.
9. Support for any required internal/external project-related audits.
10. Taking an active role in identifying and delivering improvements to processes within finance and the business.
11. Ad-hoc requests from team leader.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Qualifications: ACCA / CIMA / ACA (part qualified) or related degree would be desirable.
Experience:
Proven and demonstrable experience in a relevant role. Experience within a project-related environment covering both costing, bidding, and delivery is essential. Experience within a dynamic and fast-paced organisation.
Knowledge & Skills:
1. Positive attitude and strong work ethic.
2. Excellent organisational, analytical, and team working skills.
3. Flexible and able to multi-task; managing a number of different bids and projects simultaneously and being able to adapt to changing priorities.
4. Solid understanding of finance & applicable project accounting standards.
5. Excellent inter-personal & communication skills – both written and verbal.
6. Able to develop good working relationships with key people in the business.
7. Ability to use various Microsoft tools (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, Dynamics, Data Warehouse, SharePoint).
8. High level of concentration and attention to detail with the ability to sense check.
9. Knowledge of SAP Business One (ERP) would be advantageous but not essential.
Location:
Guildford, Surrey
Other:
The successful candidate will be required to obtain and maintain a UK national security clearance.
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