Finance Project Controller
Arcadis
Finance Project Controller
Arcadis
Global design, engineering, consultancy for assets
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.
Arcadis is a global design, engineering, and consultancy firm that creates and manages natural and built assets. It operates across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific, serving governments, public agencies, and private companies. Its four business areas—Places, Mobility, Resilience, and Intelligence—cover sustainable buildings and urban development, transportation infrastructure, climate adaptation, and data-driven digital solutions to optimize asset performance. The company earns fees for its integrated services that combine planning, design, engineering, and advisory work. Arcadis differentiates itself through its global reach and its integrated, multi-disciplinary approach that links physical design with data analytics and digital insights to deliver high-value solutions. Its goal is to help clients create and maintain sustainable, resilient, and efficient assets while improving decision-making and performance across complex projects.
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