Building a sustainable tomorrow Reporting to the UK&I FP&A Director, the purpose of the role is to take ownership and develop the FP&A aspects of BAM Ireland Segment. The role will act as a link between UK&I Divisional Finance and the underlying BAM Ireland Business units and will be responsible for preparing consolidated financial statements, providing value added management information (MI) and advice to facilitate improved performance and contribute to the execution of Finance and Business strategy of BAM Ireland. The role will also ensure that all Segment, statutory, management reporting and compliance requirements are met efficiently and effectively
Your mission
The role is accountable for leading and driving the following:
• Lead FP&A function for BAM Ireland ensuring timely, accurate and good quality submission of MF, QF and OP reporting packs to Group.
• Manage the consolidation of the BAM Ireland financial submissions in SAP BPC
• Assist BAM Ireland Finance Director in day to day Finance activities.
• Key point of interface between UK&I Divisional FP&A and any BAM Ireland Business Unit Finance teams
• Work with Divisional FP&A and Business Controllers and co-ordinate the annual budget and quarterly forecast process
• Identify opportunities for continuous development, improvement of financial systems and processes to realise efficiencies and standardisation across the BAM Ireland Finance, FP&A function and SSC.
• Ownership of all aspects of financial controls, compliance, and Balance Sheet review process
• Responsible for ensuring all accounting standards and BAM Accounting Guidelines are fully adhered to and are applied consistently across the business
• End to end ownership of the Segment CTC process from - accounting, reporting to forecasting and providing finance business partnering support to CTC budget holders
• Identify opportunities for continuous development, improvement of financial systems and processes to realise efficiencies and standardisation across the finance function
• Liaise with UK&I Tax Department and ensure compliance of tax accounting (Corporation, PAYE, and VAT).
• Management, mentoring and development of the Finance team staff.
• Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts, and profitability.
• Key point of contact and liaison with statutory auditors and other external advisors.
• Provide leadership and support ad-hoc projects and initiatives as required.
• Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions (ROI Modelling).
• Analyse competitor and market financial information to provide insight to assist with decision making.
Key activities
• Work closely with BAM Ireland Finance Director, UK&I Divisional Finance teams and SSC to develop and implement sound financial planning and reporting framework that contributes to predictable financial performance of the business.
• Implementation, monitoring and reporting against performance metrics
• Provision of reliable finance insights to the BAM Ireland MD/FD to enable sound decision making
• Develop and implement clear financial planning and reporting standards for the Business Unit Finance teams in the BAM Ireland Segment.
• Promotes the capture of best practice and knowledge sharing
Who are we looking for? We are looking for an experienced and motivated Finance professional with a track-record of FP&A built up in a project environment.
You are experienced, energized, capable, analytically, and numerically strong individual that is able to get into the detail but also step back and look at the larger picture.
You will be keen to contribute to making FP&A into a value adding function becoming a trusted business partner and will ideally have some or all of the following:
• Be a qualified accountant and member of an accountancy body (ACMA, ACCA, ACA)
• Knowledge of civil engineering, construction and/or general contracting business.
• Good knowledge of IFRS and up to date with recent ones like IFRS 15, IFRS 16, IFRS 9
• Established track record as a Head of Reporting with personal attributes to deal with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of basic Microsoft packages
• Strong business orientation – ability to understand and explain business results and translate into financial consequences.
Competencies
For this position we are looking for the following competences:
• Technical Skills - Knowledge of FP&A / finance principles and processes. Ability to synthesise information i.e., create conclusions, alternatives, and recommendations.
• Story telling – Ability to comment effectively on business performance and clearly articulate real drivers and trading outcomes.
• Influence – Contribute and lead a change in FP&A culture from ‘Collect & Report’ to ‘Predict & Act’.
• Fiduciary Finance responsibility – Actively contribute to maximise revenue and profits of the Segment but at the same time ensuring full compliance with IFRS.
• Helicopter approach – Ability to step back and see the big picture and if needed, drill down into the details.
• Initiative - Acting at one’s own initiative without being directed or encouraged by others.
• Can do attitude - Identifying problems and tracking down potential causes; recognizing important information and establishing a link between different data sets; drawing correct and realistic conclusions based on the available information; summarizing outcomes and reporting against performance metrics.
• Collaboration & Leadership – Understanding that FP&A does not work exclusively with numbers. Having the emotional and cross-cultural intelligence and empathy, to make it easier to understand the needs others.
• Team Player - Ability to work with Finance and non-Finance teams collaboratively as part of a team and actively contribute to excellence.
What’s in it for you? Opportunities! Opportunities to work with a great team on some of Irelands largest and most exciting construction and civil engineering projects. Opportunity to develop your skills to the highest industry standards while earning competitive salaries.
BAM are committed to its employees and offer strong competitive salaries along with benefits such as; 8% pension contribution, health care program, Learning and Development opportunities, further education, company vehicles (depending on the role), opportunities to travel, bike to work scheme, company laptop, company phone, flexible working arrangements and many more.
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.
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.