Finance Manager - Buildings and Places

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Are you ready to join a dynamic team with strategic business partnering being at the heart of everything you do?

Join us and play an integral role within the operational accounting and finance team and work side by side with Business Leadership. You'll get to be responsible for financial performance within an area of the Buildings & Placesorganisation in UK & Ireland. This role is key to the preparation of complete, timely and accurate financial accounting & reports in compliance with relevant GAAP (US/UK/IFRS), regulatory practices and company policies and procedures, whilst becoming a trusted advisor to the business and being integral to the performance of the business area and the achievement of financial plan.

Responsibilities:

• Partner strategically with the business in all aspects of finance management, reporting, planning & forecasting
• Work collaboratively with the business to drive sustainable growth
• Present financial results and collaborate with Business leadership on actions to achieve financial plan and identify wider finance partnering requirements
• Review bid submissions up to financial threshold as defined by Delegations of Authority matrix, including but not limited to pricing, working capital and risk/contingency assessments
• Oversee project portfolio to ensure accurate submission of project budgets and revenue recognition
• Attend project reviews and ensure timely and accurate compliance with SOX project review process
• Ensure accurate reporting of data, finance process efficiency and play key role in driving business performance through weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual finance activities
• Drive prompt billing and collecting of cash across all projects through monthly WIP and AR review calls
• Attend operational review meetings with business unit performance managers to assess risk, opportunity and validate Business risk & opportunities register
• Act as lead contact point with wider finance team on key projects / business performance issues, in particular Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Risk & Controls, Commercial Bidding, R2A, O2C & S2P
• Support annual financial audit process (internal and external) where required
• Participate in special projects and ad hoc requests
• Analyse trend variances in the financial results.  This includes comparing P&L, working capital and sales pipeline performance with operating plans, forecasts and standards. Interpret and communicate results to management team
• Ensure compliance with prescribed internal controls per AECOM Sarbanes Oxley documentation. This also includes the use and action associated with the sub Delegation of Authority in the UK&I
• Ensure career progress and succession planning is in place for direct reports, and comply with performance management and merit planning processes
• Potential Line management of Project Finance Partner(s)
• Coach and mentor a team of project accountants 
• Participate in weekly finance team calls and act as cascade for wider finance information flow to Business Unit, Project Finance Partner(s) and Project Accountants

Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Relevant experience within Operational/Commercial/Controllership/FP&A environment
• Professional Finance Qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or Overseas Equivalent) preferable
• Strong working knowledge of Revenue Recognition and Project Accounting
• Strong analytical & problem solving skills essential
• Highly collaborative and perceptive, and shows prudent analysis in problem solving
• Strong leadership skills and be able to manage, train and develop staff in a respectful and effective manner
• Must be pro-active and demonstrate ability to see things through to the end
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and be able to tailor to an audience
• Ability to be resourceful, hands on and work both independently and as part of high-performing team
• Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple duties in a fast-paced environment.
• Works independently as well as part of a team; willingness to work with multiple different colleagues on a variety of initiatives
• Ability to manage & motivate a regionally spread team
• Ability to think creatively and solve problems
• Must be able to provide support and guidance
• Strong time management capability
• Receptive to change

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.