Assistant Finance Manager

Job Description

Assistant Finance Manager role provides a great opportunity to get to know our business and to add value and insight to the overall forecasting, modelling and reporting of business performance. It will require close working with the other Finance Partners, Financial Control, and building strong relationships with the wider business.

The key skills will be robust reporting and analysis, planning and forecasting combined with great interpersonal skills and a desire to understand what we do and make a difference. This is a fixed term role for 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Produce and distribute weekly/monthly operational reports, develop new reports to meet business needs, and ensure accuracy of financial reporting.
• Extract and analyse data from finance and operational systems to track spending and prepare monthly accruals and reports.
• Identify areas to improve processes and reporting, drive cost-saving initiatives and efficiency improvements.
• Develop understanding of business strategy and its translation into financial impacts
• Support finance transformation activity through delivery of improvements in forecasting and reporting
• Produce standard finance deliverables to the agreed timeline and quality, supported by clear and focused explanations and messaging
• Regularly report performance against plans and forecasts, supporting business review of financial and operational variances to identify corrective actions
• Support delivery of accurate, efficient, and transparent financial plans and forecasts
• Carry out non-standard / bespoke analysis to support business decision making and identify performance improvement interventions
  
  

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA)
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to execute P&L analysis and attention to detail.
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and work collaboratively within the Finance team
  
  

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.