Financial Planning

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Working here isn't just a job. You can advance your career at Avove, and we'll reward you with a range of benefits that recognise great work. We provide full training and continuous development to help you reach your potential. We strive to create an inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves. Join us and take the next step towards a fulfilling career.

About The Role…
Reporting to the Commercial Finance Director, this role is responsible for the treasury, cashflow and banking management for the business and consolidation, analysis and challenge of the P&L, cashflow and balance sheet forecasts.

A great opportunity to undertake a challenging and highly stimulating role, you'll make a significant impact to the business. This is a full-time role based from our Chorley office with a hybrid style of working.

What will your day look like…

• Lead and consolidate financial forecasting across P&L, cashflow, and balance sheet, ensuring robust and accurate forecasts for shareholders.
• Review, challenge, and analyse forecast movements, variances, and working capital to drive financial insight and accountability.
• Own the annual budgeting process, including consolidation, detailed contract-level analysis, and preparation of shareholder presentation packs.
• Manage short- and long-term liquidity, including daily/weekly cash forecasting, payment allocation, and ensuring strong cash controls.
• Deliver clear management reporting on forecast accuracy, liquidity, cashflow performance, and payment trends.
• Build and maintain strong banking relationships, taking responsibility for all banking matters and supporting ad-hoc business projects.

About You…
You'll bring proven FP&A expertise, with hands-on experience consolidating forecasts and managing treasury, cashflow, and liquidity. With strong analytical and communication skills, you're confident presenting financial insights to senior stakeholders. You're either CIMA/ACCA qualified (or QBE) and thrive in fast-paced environments. Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint comes naturally, and you're comfortable using technology to deliver accurate, impactful analysis.

What's in it for you…

We offer a rewarding salary that is tailored to your skills and experience. But that's not all We celebrate hard work and give recognition to our colleagues. In addition to this, we understand that one size doesn't fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private personal medical insurance
• Company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Family friendly policies
• A selection of lifestyle benefit options
• Financial wellbeing programme
• Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
• We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.

About Us…
We design, build and maintain the UK's utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better. We provide cutting-edge and sustainable engineering solutions and play a critical role in helping to keep the water running, the lights on and people connected.

We are an expert, responsible and agile partner, providing vital services to water, power and telecommunications sectors. We work closely with our clients to help protect and improve their assets, enhance customer experience and protect the natural environment. Everything we do is designed to drive continual improvement and move life forward.

We are proud to work in partnership with leading utility providers, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern PowerGrid, Northumbrian Water Group, Scottish Power Energy Networks and Scottish Water

We are an equal opportunities employer.....

We welcome applications from candidates of all races, genders, disabilities, religions, ages and sexual orientations. We know that having a diverse workforce encourages new perspectives, inspires creativity and creates an engaging workplace and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all colleagues can thrive. When it comes to inclusion, we're making sure we keep up the progress with our Communities of Practice, who help us do just that.

What next...

We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can. We recognise talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates individually through all stages of recruitment process.

If you have any questions, please reach out for an informal discussion