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Finance Project Controller

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In-Office
London, Greater London, England, GBR
Entry level
In-Office
London, Greater London, England, GBR
Entry level
Manages a finance team supporting project setup, forecasting, billing, cash collection, revenue recognition, project reviews, and month-end reporting. Partners with Project Managers, Business Partners, and Directors to improve working capital, ensure IFRS compliance, identify risks, and enhance reporting accuracy. Provides Oracle training, challenges project performance changes, develops direct reports, and drives continuous improvement across the finance function.
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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Managing a team to proactively support Project Managers to ensure Arcadis projects are set up, forecast, billed and closed in a timely manner as set out in the Arcadis Way Principles. Work closely with Business Partners to ensure accurate reporting of performance, minimise working capital and escalate risks identified. 

Role accountabilities:

  • Provide effective management to engage, motivate and develop all direct reports

  • Build trusted relationships with Business Directors to ensure appropriate quality and service

  • Drive improvements in working capital by reviewing and driving billing/cash collection

  • Train Project Managers on Oracle and support where required

  • Advise Project Managers on efficient project set-up structures, ensuring revenue recognition in compliance with IFRS 

  • Identify continuous improvement and encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing across the wider finance team

  • Support Project Managers to reforecast projects as required; identify and challenge project performance changes to drive accuracy of month end reporting

  • Support on project reviews as required; report any risks identified to management

  • Ensure reliable and accurate month end reporting of project performance

  • Support Business Partners interpret month end results

  • Comply with Arcadis Way policies and procedures

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Part qualified Accounting qualification or equivalent by experience

  • Ability to organise, motivate and develop a team

  • Relevant experience of working in a medium/large organisation

  • Excel and ERP to a medium proficiency

  • Attention to detail and consistent high standards

  • Good inter-personal and communication skills

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
 

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