Senior Finance Business Partner - Project Controlling

As a Senior Finance Business Partner Project Controlling, you will have a high profile and run all financial aspects of the project accounting, planning, forecasting, reporting & analysis, supporting the business in successful project execution.

The role is to perform the project accounting, reporting & support the operations in managing all financial aspects programme delivery including planning & forecasting, monitoring & advising, project margin, project revenue profile and cashflow.

Processing costing & reporting activities for the financial reporting of revenue, inventory, WIP, cost of goods sold, and underlying calculations and supporting analysis.

This comprises short term delivery contracts and long-term construction contracts of 1 year+ with values of £10m+.

This is a permanent position working 37.5 hours per week. We offer hybrid working for this role which will allow you to enjoy the balance of home working and collaboration time with the team in our modern, friendly offices which include free onsite parking.,

• Work with project management, engineering and operations teams in order to maintain the new equipment project costing spend to date and forecast spend to complete and project revenue profiles with comparison vs plan.


• Performs project cost analysis and reporting for weekly review of high value orders and, on an ad hoc basis, other orders as required.


• Customer order processing for long term construction contracts


• Manages the transaction processing for inventory and WIP accounting functions including running sub-ledger update routines and ad-hoc manual transactions as required to maintain accuracy and quality of inventory and WIP sub-ledgers and GL reporting balances.


• Completion of monthly balance sheet reconciliations for inventory and WIP materials and labour, accruals, commissions, warranty, labour revaluation and contract provisions.


• Preparation of routine and non-routine journal entries


• Analyses and act on issues arising from insight into project performance.


• Support internal, SOX, and external audit requests as related to these areas of responsibility.


• Ensure compliance with monthly reporting cycle deadline and Sarbanes Oxley requirements for the areas covered by the role.


• Very high standards
  
  Confident and effective in working with non-financial teams.


• Proactive in engaging others in solving problems.


• Resilient and a self-starter with a can do attitude.


• Adaptable / Flexible


• Organised & good prioritising skills.


• Comfortable working in a fast paced, deadline driven, big corporate environment.


• Very strong IT / Excel & Microsoft Office package skills


• Strong background in manufacturing long-term project accounting required.


• ACCA / CIMA qualification preferred.
  
  Howden is a leading global engineering business who focus on providing mission critical air and gas handling products to our clients, helping them to increase their environmental and operational efficiencies.


We recognise the value of people and truly believe that by working together, aligned to a common purpose, we all have the opportunity to grow, learn and make a difference.

In Return, we offer a range of fantastic benefits :

• A flexible and supportive work environment.


• A competitive salary.


• Generous holiday entitlement package.


• Howden Pension Plan with Scottish Widows.


• Healthcare cash plan with Healthshield.


• Access to My Howden Benefits & Wellbeing Portal Cycle2Work programme, range of discounts across various retailers, wealth of information to support health & wellbeing.


• Group Life Assurance plan at 3x salary.


• Group Income Protection plan.


• Opportunity to be involved in our ESG Bright Future' initiatives STEM ambassador & volunteering.


• Training & Development Opportunities.


• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental and adoption leave pay.