Senior Finance Business Controller

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Building a sustainable tomorrow

BAM UK&I are recruiting a senior finance business controller to be based from any of our UK&I offices.

In addition to an attractive salary, we offer a significant benefits package including a company car or car allowance, contributory pension, BUPA, life assurance, 25 days holiday (increases with length of service), holiday purchase scheme, gym subsidy and BAM social club membership.

Your mission

• Delivery of efficient and effective strategic and operational financial leadership in support of the overall strategy and performance objectives of [Business Unit (s) / Sector (s)].
• Operate as a key member of the Management Team, and wider finance leadership group.
• Provide comprehensive high quality analysis to aid and support business decision making with focus on the use, rather than preparation, of data.
• Ensure compliance with Group and Segment specific business, financial and commercial procedures and policies.
• Responsible for a significant, large or complex Business area or Multiple Business areas.

Strategic Agenda Process
• Contribute to the BAM Group vision and plan, translate this into a vision and plan for Finance.
• Align key stakeholders around the Finance vision, strategy and plan and communicate it internally as well as externally.
• Portfolio Analysis - aggregate data on BAM portfolio, transforming information into portfolio optimization ideas and driving the need for fact-based decision making in policy setting.
• M&A and Divestments - support the BAM group with making M&A and divestments decisions in the 'pre-deal' and 'post-deal' phases, providing considerations on funding acquisitions with debt & equity.

Business Management & Support
• Develop the capabilities, tools, techniques and models to enable finance to influence and drive better decision making in the organization.
• Rationalize and improve the production of management reporting and analysis across processes, commercial policy, people and technology.
• CAPEX Investments - supporting the Business area with analysis of and justification for CAPEX investments and post investment analysis. This includes supporting business cases and post-investments analysis, and drawing on lessons for future investments and budgeting.

OP (Operating Plan) process
• Set Sector or regional Operational Plan financial targets, in line with the Segment / Division strategic plans to enable the achievement of organizational performance goals. Establish the OP planning cycle which includes;
• Ownership, management and communication of the timetable.
• Provision of OP Sector templates and supporting guidance.
• Providing the business with information to support the OP process.
• Active involvement in the OP process including Sector reviews.
• Set assumptions for revenue and cost levels and deliver the Strategic plan (SP) and Operating Plan (OP).
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Project Control
• Determine the critical success factors, opportunities, risks and performance indicators linked with project lifecycle stages. Provide guidance and challenge in reviews.
• Project Reporting - develop standard reporting suite of project financial information to be used across the Sector
• Tender Stage Gate Procedure (TSGP) - Assess the strategic goals regarding business development, pipeline quality and risk-return of tenders in the Tender Stage Gate Procedure. This includes:
• Advice on whether or not to tender, analyse risks, margins and other key controls and monitor sign-off procedures, in line with Stage Gate guidance.
• Position Paper Projects - share position papers with the auditor, helping them understand the position taken on the Projects in line with accounting standards i.e. IFRS15."

Who are we looking for?

• Senior Finance Professional.
• Significant PQ experience.
• Significant experience of finance roles in large complex organisations.
• In depth knowledge of sector related markets and regulatory environment.
• Significant experience of working directly alongside leadership teams in developing & delivering to strategy & business plans.
• Excellent understanding of the management systems, policies and processes that underpin a successful large complex enterprise. Leads, communicates and initiates improvements.
• Significant experience of developing strong internal and external relationships to drive individual and business performance.
• Significant leadership experience of functional roles within large complex organisations, projects and programmes.
• Able to set out & act as consultant to senior stakeholders on the political, business and economic issues affecting customers and the market.
• Significant experience shaping a customer focused business. Uses network to ensure commercial knowledge is topical. In-depth understanding of financial models and commercial business processes.
• Significant knowledge and evidence of setting a strategic agenda, portfolio & performance analysis & capex and business case analysis. Highly likely to have M&A experience.
• Significant knowledge and evidence of business planning, cost management (CTC), management reporting, statutory accountability & investment and accounting principles. Excellent knowledge on Accounting guidelines, IFRS and External reporting and can articulate to others.
• Significant knowledge and evidence of project budgeting & forecasting & reporting; risk and opp management & cash forecasting, likely on large complex projects.
• Very good awareness of and ability to actively engage with specialist and communicate risk and opportunity around corp finance, bonds & guarantees, financial logistics, structured finance and Investment tenders.
• Very good awareness of and ability to actively engage with specialist and communicate risk and opportunity around enterprise risk management, BRF and controls.
• Very good awareness of and ability to actively engage with specialist and communicate risk and opportunity around tax strategy, filling, accounting, transfer pricing, JV's, indirect and payroll taxes and supply chain tax liabilities.
• Understanding and experience of critical finance transactional operations and underlying control points and best practice. Can communicate to others. Across full scope of P2P, R2R, O2C & Master data.
• Interest in and desire to drive wider business to adopt best practice information and digital literacy, digital content creation, problem solving in a data environment, data strategy and planning, data analytics and data visualisation.
• Understand information, data and content in a digital environment & can develop and manage decisions and choices that align to an organisations data strategy and business strategy. Can check data from multiple sources, define appropriate metrics and measures and develop analytics in applications. Apply knowledge to existing (and develop new) visualization solutions and dashboards for specific business techniques.

What's in it for you?

A challenging and continuously changing environment in a forward thinking organisation. In addition to an attractive salary and benefits package, we support further personal growth and development.

Your work environment

People are at the heart of what we do at BAM. We recognise that creating a diverse and inclusive environment that nurtures our employees and encourages them to bring their best and whole self to work is crucial. We're on an exciting journey to get us there by recruiting the very best talent to join us regardless of race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

Be you! Join us today, so we can achieve amazing things together and build a sustainable tomorrow.

Who are we?

The art of building is about building for communities; it's about building for life.

Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.

Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.

Our recruitment process, what you need to know?

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at any time you feel we need to do something to make it more accessible to you, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.

Closing date for applications is Friday 7th February 2025