Finance Manager

About the role

Are you an experienced Finance Manager with a passion for delivering excellence?

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity to join our Ground Engineering team as part of the transformative Sizewell Project. Based at our Sizewell Satellite Office in Ipswich, this role offers a unique chance to contribute to a high-profile project that will shape the future of the UK’s infrastructure. As Finance Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in helping establish and sustaining the financial control environment throughout the Joint Venture.

Working closely with the JV Finance Director, JV Project Director, JV Commercial Lead, JV Partners and the Ground Engineering Senior Finance team, you’ll help setup and define financial processes for the joint venture, implement robust controls, and deliver insights that drive project success.

This role is broad and includes anything from risk management to procurement, financial reporting and managing the supply chain.

In this broad and varied role, you’ll be involved in every aspect of the project’s financial management, including:

• Financial Oversight:
  Managing actual costs, ensuring accurate use of project codes, and validating financial data.
• Reporting Excellence:
  Producing detailed project financials, including management accounts, balance sheets, cashflows, and budgets.
• Performance Monitoring:
  Comparing actuals to budgets, analysing variances, and delivering timely, accurate reports to Head Office.
• Risk Management:
  
  Collaborating with commercial teams to assess risks, opportunities, and ensure adherence to the CVR process.
• Audit & Compliance:
  Leading audits and maintaining compliance with statutory reporting and governance requirements.
• Supply Chain Management:
  Overseeing cost verification and providing financial due diligence to support procurement decisions.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Developing insightful analysis to inform decision-making and adopting best practices to enhance project delivery.

• Exceptional Financial Expertise:
  Strong financial and commercial acumen, with experience in managing complex financial environments.
• Leadership
  
  Skills:
  
  A track record of building and leading high-performing teams, fostering collaboration, and driving continuous improvement.
• Academic Excellence: A strong academic background with the ability to bring strategic thinking and analytical skills to the role.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key 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/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering is one of the UK’s leading specialist geo-technical contractors, providing innovative piling and ground improvement solutions across all sectors.

Our comprehensive ground engineering capabilities, equipment and experience provide the solid foundations for infrastructure and buildings of any height, ranging from city skyscrapers to cross-country rail and road projects.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality,…