We’ve worked hard to build a culture where people feel a genuine sense of belonging, wherever they work in our operations, and whatever their role. Our culture is grounded in our core values and our very strong commitment to delivering every day for our clients and their customers, getting everyone home safely, and caring about your wellbeing.

We believe the diverse work we do really matters – whether we are connecting people and businesses to complex fibre networks, supporting large industrial projects and utilities, building modular spaces in which to learn, work or play, or delivering creative events to inspire and entertain.

The Role:

The successful candidate will work closely with the Network and In Home commercial team to ensure efficient management of project budgets, cost control, and financial reporting. This role requires a dynamic professional with strong financial acumen, attention to detail, excellent communication skills and strong analytical capabilities.

Responsibilities:

Management of Projects

• Supporting division management teams in achieving budgets.
• Project performance monitoring and reporting variances against the project’s budget.
• Liaising with Quantity Surveyors on each Project to ensure that their Cost Value Reconciliations ‘CVR’ reports are reconciled against the original project’s budget.
• Reviewing the project budget on a continuous basis with the Project Directors ensuring that results are in line with the expected project profitability.
• Ensuring internal project controls are in place and operating effectively.
• Reviewing all in life contract claims, variations and risks.

Sub-contractor Administration

• Ensuring all necessary documentation is in place before commencement of works.
• Reviewing and tracking the sub contractors on a monthly basis in conjunction with the project teams.
• Liaising with the project teams and the Accounts Payable team in respect to payment schedules and monthly cashflow projections for sub-contractor payments.
• Monitoring payment and retention release dates and liaising with project teams in respect to scheduled settlement dates.

Financial analysis and reporting

• Supporting financial decision making with analysis.
• Reporting – key inputs to be supplied to finance team as per finance timelines.
• Reviewing and finalising monthly finance reports.
• Developing KPI and exception reporting for projects to provide better analysis to management and project teams to drive improvements.
• Reviewing monthly P&L with each project team.
• WIP/Debtors – reporting weekly on working capital by project.
• Revenue Assurance - auditing of revenue processes & systems to ensure all work completed is accurately invoiced and collected revenues reflect the invoiced amounts.
• Budgets/forecasting – completing annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and bi-monthly outlooks for all projects.
• Balances sheet management, understanding all associated project costs and liabilities and reconciling on a monthly basis and working collectively with the commercial and accounts team in trying to minimize both WIP & Debtor days on projects.
• Other ad hoc projects.

New Business Tenders & Contract Renewals

• Commercial management of contract tenders & renewals.
• Pricing – developing revenue & cost projections and building pricing model.
• Risk analysis – impact / probability assessment – as part of the contract pricing process.
• Tender / proposal development – liaising with Actavo Bid Director to produce any required documents, slides, etc for submission / presentation to clients.
• SDP process – supporting the SDP 1 / SDP 2 / SDP 3 process to ensure the contract is subject to the appropriate governance process within Actavo.
• Managing commercial contract negotiations with clients.
• Developing project timelines, project schedules, project milestones, cost profiles and margin estimates for each project awarded.
• Ongoing forecasting of project timelines, costs to completion and final contract position.

Requirements:

• Experience of working in a busy finance or commercial department in a construction company
• Strong knowledge and experience of contractual requirements
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Applications
• Strong team player
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills required
• Strong commercial acumen
• Good organizational skills as ability to multitask on various projects at any one time will be required

• Confident self-starter
• ‘Can-do’ attitude with flexible approach to work

Ability to represent the company in a professional manner at all times

Benefits:

• Pension plan
• Life assurance – 4 times your annual salary
• Employee assistance programme
• Refer a friend scheme
• Maternity pay
• Employee discounts – on hotels, gyms, electronics and more
• Educational assistance
• Career progression opportunities
• Long Service Awards