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Location: Northampton

Salary: From £30,000

Type of Employment: Full Time

Hours: 40

Job Overview

• The role is commercially focused, supporting contract and operations managers. The key to being successful in this role is adding value – working with operations teams to ensure we maximise revenue from existing clients through accurately reconciling the applications that go to the clients, making sure we deliver our services as efficiently as possible and ensuring contract profitability is maximised and working capital management is optimised.

  • Responsible for producing the monthly management accounts for allocated business units, ready for review with the Senior Business Partner and Business Unit Directors.
  • Good close working relationship with the operational and commercial teams, providing commercial and financial input where required.
  • Review contract profitability, highlighting high and low margin contracts for discussion with relevant operational/commercial managers.
  • Responsible to help deliver detailed rolling forecast and annual budget, ready for presentation to senior management.
  • Act as the link between operations and central finance functions to drive a customer service culture.
  • Be a key driver and facilitators of integrating recently acquired business into the Mitie fold

Main Duties

• Ensure the timely and accurate completion of the major contract accounting to ensure integrity, accuracy, consistency and providing clear visibility of the financial health of these contracts.
• Ensure the accurate accounting on accrued and deferred income on a monthly basis, with clear visibility and communication to the business on non-current debt.
• Close working relationship with OTC, RTR and P2P teams (on and offshore) to ensure accurate and timely billing, efficient payroll reporting and driving improvements in the working capital.
• Understanding and challenging current business practice, identifying and implementing initiatives to improve process and deliver greater service line experience.
• Detailed financial analysis and presentation of financial information to support decision making.
• Develop and report KPI's relevant to the business.
• Undertake contract profitability analysis, providing insight to Operations on opportunities and risks.
• Provide forward looking insight utilising experience of the past and utilising financial and business skills.
• Prepare forecasts and budgets based on the latest results and pipelines.
• Support and drive the integration of processes and systems from newly acquired businesses.
• Ad Hoc duties for SFBP

What we are looking for

• Studying / Intention to study - ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CIPFA qualified, ideally with some commercial experience.

• Advanced Excel skills. (preferable)

• Influential and motivational leadership capability.

• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment and ability to prioritise a changing workload and use initiative.

• Good communication skills with the ability to present complex financial information to non-financial individuals.

• High level of integrity with a commitment to embedding a strong governance culture.

• A hardworking individual with lots of energy, who can deliver high quality work to tight reporting deadlines and demonstrate desire to progress within the company.

• Able to produce concise and informative reporting under tight deadlines.

• Flexible working and to be able to travel around the UK.