Project Finance Lead

Job title: Project Finance Lead

Location: Warwick/Hybrid

Duration: 6 months initially

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The role:

Reporting to the Accounting & Reporting Lead, the Project Finance Lead is responsible for leading comprehensive financial support to the Project Portfolio Management teams, ensuring relevant financial processes are standardised, repeatable and fit-for-purpose. It is also responsible for leading a team to deliver high-quality provision of financial reporting, analysis and insight to ensure effective forecasting, review and financial control for FSO business projects.

Responsibilities:

Lead, motivate and develop a team of Investment and Fixed Asset Accountants, responsible for ensuring. accuracy, integrity, and completeness of financial information for all projects and fixed assets for the FSO

and for ensuring that the accounts are submitted into company systems with auditable supporting

information in a timely manner.

Provide periodic reviews of project financial performance to Senior Management and project teams,

undertaking trend, variance analysis, critical evaluation and provision of financial insight to drive

improved project performance. Evaluate commercial and non-financial performance-related decisions.

through scenario analysis, supporting the management of financial risks and the implementation and

maintenance of controls.

Provide total FSO monthly management narrative on Opex and Capex projects, together with forecast.

risks and opportunities against sanction and deliverables to ensure relevant stakeholders are engaged and

informed.

Act as the key Finance stakeholder to the Portfolio Management Teams and support the Senior Project

Managers in interpreting and understanding their portfolio, including its regulatory outcomes and

financial performance. Ensure that project portfolio forecasts are at all times thorough, comprehensive,

and fully incorporate accurate risk assessment, consistent with the needs of the programme.

Be recognised as a critical trusted partner and drive customer service excellence across the function,

ensuring the team understand and incorporate business context into reporting, and that financial

performance insights are delivered directly to the business.

Develop and drive an appropriate governance and controls environment across month end, forecasting, and regulatory reporting, providing Ofgem taxonomy view as appropriate to ensure financial deliverables and timescales are agreed and adhered to.

Requirements:

Experience in leading project accounting teams.

Excellent project and fixed asset accounting skills including investment appraisal.

Experience in financial and management accounting/reporting (including planning, forecasting, and

budgeting).

Experience of using SAP S/4 HANA, in particular the fixed asset modules, is preferred.

Strong understanding of governance, risk, and internal control frameworks.

Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.

Strong customer service orientation and ability to instil the same in others.

Strong commercial awareness.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.