About Us
Laing O'Rourke is an international engineering and construction company delivering state‑of‑the‑art infrastructure and building projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
We have more than 150 years of experience delivering certainty, reliability and quality, and our story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to shape how financial insight enables success on some of the UK's most significant construction projects. Join a collaborative and forward‑thinking team where your expertise makes a real difference.
Key Responsibilities
* Being a trusted adviser to Portfolio leadership, providing rigour, clarity and financial stewardship to deliver sustainable growth and operational excellence.
* Build relationships across project teams to understand financial performance, helping identify emerging risks and opportunities.
* Provide timely and high‑quality completion of core monthly finance reporting.
* Deliver meaningful insight and analysis for use in reviews, profit enhancement sessions, and planning cycles.
* Drive strong cash outcomes across the portfolio by influencing commercial strategies, payment mechanisms, and client behaviours, ensuring alignment with cash targets.
* Support internal and external audits by aligning project outcomes with financial standards.
* Contribute to wider finance initiatives and ad hoc business needs.
* Embrace digital finance transformation, automation and analytics.
* Own the integrity and accuracy of portfolio forecasts, driving early identification and escalation of risks and mitigating actions.
* Financial governance over variations, compensation events, claims and disputes, ensuring all matters are escalated to appropriate stakeholders.
* Drive portfolio‑level performance management, identifying themes, systemic risks and best practices, and partnering with Delivery Directors to intervene where performance deviates from plan.
* Provide leadership at key bid, tender and project gateway stages, ensuring risks, assumptions and margins are well understood and reflected.
* Raise capability across delivery teams, enabling non‑finance leaders to make informed, value‑based conclusions.
About You
* Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
* Proven ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders.
* Competent in managing deadlines, balancing priorities, and delivering under pressure.
* Curious, with a strong inquisitive nature, commercial acumen, and a track record in forecasting, budgeting and reporting.
* Demonstrated experience improving processes and adding value in a finance role.
Desirable
* Experience of large, complex engineering or construction contracts.
* Familiarity with COINs, Tagetik, and Power BI.
* Background in a large, complex finance organisation.
Disability and Employment
We are part of the Disability Confident scheme and offer an interview scheme to enable access for candidates with long‑term conditions and disabilities. Please let us know before your interview what adjustments you require and how we can support you in the workplace. If you need the application form in an alternative format or would like more information about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com.
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