Financial & Commercial Officer
3 weeks ago
**Company Description**
Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.
Every day, our 6,500 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.
We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.
To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all.
This role provides Financial and Commercial leadership and support across the Defence and Decommissioning (D&D) business.
- Working with P&L leads, take ownership of Budget / Forecasts templates and help Operational teams to ensure the data held within them is accurate, complete, and delivered to required deadlines.
- Consolidate & make preliminary review of budget & Forecast for Senior Business Unit Director, D&D leadership team and CFO. This includes understanding key commercial and financial assumptions, variances against the previous forecast and risk/opportunity analysis.
- Review the P&L monthly to understand the key variances to forecast, the key drivers underpinning that forecast, and the key risks and opportunities for future performance.
- Challenge and validate a rolling 3 month headcount and P&L projection against recruitment expectations and sales pipeline.
- Ensure robust financial and project control within D&D. Monitoring the following project financial KPIs and ensure PM support in resolution of any issues relating to:
- Ensuring there is adequate Customer PO cover for project and follow up with PM on issuance of the Advance Authorization when required
- Ensuring WIP is invoiced on a timely basis and liaise with appropriate stakeholder to facilitate resolution of any blocking issues
- Regular review of Account receivables and follow up of overdue items (Aging Balance)
- Support on any audit activities (customers, government, external financial auditors, internal quality audit).
- Work in conjunction with P&L leads and project managers to ensure maximum profitability. For example, by challenging project performance and understanding the underlying commercial constructs.
- Work closely with the finance team to ensure the quality and usefulness of financial data and analytical reporting.
- Drive the financial closure of projects.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the interdependency of cost drivers.
- Understand the entire arc of the business and how productivity impacts profitability.
- Commit to maximizing efficiency at all levels without compromising quality.
- Take the lead on developing cost models and sales rate generation in support of bid/proposal submissions for all usual contract types, particular NEC 4.
- Take the lead in commercial/financial model development in support of supply chain partnerships (JV’s/uJV’s/SPV’s and the like) in support of large scale bid/proposal generation.
**Qualifications**
- ACCA/CIMA Qualified (or equivalent) or qualified by experience.
- Proven experience of financial and/or project controls required.
- Experience of computerised accounting systems necessary; knowledge of IFS will be valuable but is not essential.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills and experience in data manipulation.
- NEC4 Contract (or similar) Training would be desirable.
- You must be eligible to work in UK.
Softer Skills:
- Ability to communicate complex finance information clearly and concisely to a non-finance audience.
- Continuous improvement mindset and an appetite to identify the root causes of issues or inefficiencies and embed change.
- Good logic and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to work towards deadlines both independently and as part of a team.
- High level of attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure and manage priorities
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