About The Role
Assistant Finance Manager in Derby. Hybrid role requires a minimum of 3 days a week on site and occasional travel to projects across England and Scotland.
Joining Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution team to deliver critical infrastructure that powers communities. Work with Training, Design & Engineering teams. Responsible for all aspects of financial management & analysis, cost modelling, reporting & control for the functions. Exposure to the EDC design team in India, managing outputs and overall cost modelling for the combined function; however not responsible for the EDC cost base or required to travel to India.
What you’ll be doing
* Budget/Forecast Management: develop and manage budgets for the department, ensuring accurate cost estimations and tracking expenditures against approved budgets.
* Cost Control: implement cost control measures to optimise department spend without compromising quality, constantly seeking opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
* Financial Reporting: support the preparation of financial reports feeding into project performance, cost trends, KPI’s and overall financial health.
* Manage period end reporting cycles.
* Support heads of engineering/training in understanding performance, through KPI’s on utilisation, overheads and contribution to margin.
* Manage and update the D&E and training financial rate card frameworks to ensure full cost recovery, profitability and reduction of risk profile.
* Preparation of monthly accounts pack for the Engineering Director and Heads of Engineering.
* Presentation of financial results to the Engineering Director and Heads of Engineering.
* Approval and recording of intercompany activity.
* Risk Management: support the engineering team to identify, review and manage risks, help identify strategies to mitigate them, ensuring compliance with financial regulations and industry standards.
* Financial Forecasting: conduct financial forecasting and analysis to support decision‑making, project future financial trends and assess potential impacts.
* Visibility: attend management meetings in Derby and at sites to ensure integration with the wider engineering team.
* A good level of commercial understanding and experience of NEC option C and E contracts would be advantageous.
* Continuous Improvement: identify opportunities for process improvement within the finance department, implementing best practices to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
* Ad Hoc Analysis: perform ad‑hoc financial analysis and reporting as needed, addressing specific inquiries from senior management or stakeholders and contributing to informed decision‑making.
Who we’re looking for
* Strong analytical skills, with demonstrated ability to create quality, well‑organised financial analysis from multiple data sources. Attention to detail and accuracy required.
* Previous experience of Balfour Beatty systems including R12, Power BI, IRIS, PBCS would be beneficial.
* Strong communication, numerical and presentation skills including the ability to deliver reports orally and written in an objective and persuasive manner, demonstrating initiative and resilience when challenged.
* Strong financial/commercial acumen is desired.
* Proactive, problem‑solving individual who takes full ownership and accountability of their work.
* Confidence to work closely with the Commercial team and build good working relationships across the business.
* Act as a strong advocate for best practice, able to support and defend practical deployment and solutions, whilst remaining open to the ideas of others.
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/partner’s leave.
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.
Commitment to Inclusive Employment
We are a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to inclusive hiring practices.
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