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Overview
The role of a Finance Assurance Consultant will be supporting end-to-end service delivery, often with respect to large and complex infrastructure commissions covering both private and public sector clients. Your role will be to support the process that ensures client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added commercial assurance service.
What you’ll do
* Finance system management, including SAP, analysing and monthly reporting. Creating and managing Purchase Order’s, Goods Receipt process, Creating projects, Budget maintenance, Forecasting, Vendor management, aged debt reporting and management, invoice handling.
* Evaluation of cost data and structures and assessing them against contractual/ commercial principles.
* Analysis of cost data to identify patterns, themes, trends and risks.
* Appraisals of cost capture and commercial management processes.
* Detailed cost verification, payroll audits, and data sampling.
* Identification of process improvement opportunities for cost controls and commercial governance.
* Interfacing and engagement with project staff including finance staff to complete cost verification, substantiation together with obtaining key documentation/data.
* Management of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.
* Supporting the production of close-out reports.
* Presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their supply chain.
* Lead engagements when travelling to different sites/ locations nationally and internationally.
* Mentoring junior staff and upskilling both internal and external stakeholders in the arena of cost and commercial assurance.
Qualifications
* Demonstrable experience of delivering service excellence to clients.
* Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
* Experience in delivering cost and commercial assurance/ audit activities.
* Competent in the interpretation of a wide range of contracts, with experience in the application of the principles of a schedule of cost components.
* Comfortable and experienced in analysing high volumes of data that are primarily excel driven, ideally with experience of different cost systems.
* The ability to extract, interrogate and assess large data sets to problem solve and produce outputs that can be used in the decision-making process.
* Strong report writing and presentation skills.
* Ability to work autonomously and in fast-paced environment, and able to adapt and meet challenges as they develop during the delivery stage.
* Strong interpersonal skills.
* Achieve the highest standards of professional competence and to demonstrate this ability in all dealings with clients and professional contacts, reinforcing the profile of the company.
* Maintain and develop good relationships with clients.
* Actively support the internal team on technically complex projects.
Position details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Finance and Sales
* Industries: Architecture and Planning, Civil Engineering, and Construction
Additional Information
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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