Overview
Assistant Finance Manager –
Job Description
The Assistant Finance Manager will report to the Finance Lead. They will ensure timely payment of accounts payables, administration of cost journals; staff transfers and cost reallocations, cost reporting and analysis, timely resolution of timesheet cost queries and managing new starters / leaver forms.
For Internal Reference: Generic Job Description – FINF01 – Assistant Finance Manager.pdf
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Monthly administration, reconciliation, and reallocation of staff costs, cost reallocation journals, purchase card and telephone costs as well as head office recharges and the timely resolution of other staff cost queries.
- Processing monthly cost reports for the Finance Manager for SMT reviews.
- Discuss and generate a positive approach to change including implementing improved ways of undertaking tasks.
- Investigate and respond to queries from the Finance Manager.
- Carry out compliance reviews of financial controls, in line with company guidelines, ensuring that all applicable requirements can always be met.
- Continuously adapt and improve management reports.
- Other ad hoc duties to support the wider company divisions.
- Assist with year-end process and analysis as required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential
- Experience in a finance department.
- Strong written, oral and analytical skills with attention to detail and an ethical approach to data including respecting the confidential nature of information.
- Advanced understanding of Microsoft, specifically excel.
- Self-motivate, reliable and agile individual.
- Honest, resilient and competent individual with high emotional intelligence.
- Ability to assimilate, understand, analyse and present data.
- Ability to solve complex problems under pressure in a calm and rational manager whilst always acting with integrity.
- Can develop and maintain good relationships with internal and external stakeholders of the business at all levels up to the CEO.
Desirable
- Experience in a similar role.
- Experience with Microsoft Power BI.
- Experience of working with Oracle Enterprise One.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level qualification in a relevant field or substantial experience.
Desirable
- Relevant qualification (i.e. Chartered Accounting).
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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.
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