Finance Manager (Contract)

Job Title: Finance Manager; hours of work: 5 x days per week, 37 hours; Pay: £30-£35 per hour; Reports to: Finance Director

Purpose of role:
The Finance Manager will be a key team member of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance Finance and Programme teams. The role is tasked with:
Provision of experienced financial support to the Programme by building and maintaining effective relationships and ensuring robust financial challenge and control.
Provision of support to the EAC/SCAM processes, provision of data to the CAMS, ensuring their understanding of the data and that all financial considerations have been taken into account in the calculation of the outturn forecast for the programme.
Critically, the role will be the key interface between the Delivery IPT's ensuring consistently of approach and application of ACA Processes and Procedures.

Key Technical Skills:
Thorough understanding of ACA Processes and Procedures.
Demonstrable experience in Project Accounting, Cost Monitoring and Control.
Excellent Excel skills
Key Leadership/People Management Skills
Ability to manage and develop direct reports
Effectively influence IPT Leads, Control Account and Functional Managers across the Programme
Establish and develop strong working relationships with key customers both internally and externally.
Key Interpersonal/Behavioural Skills
Excellent influencing and challenging skills
Ability to clearly present and communicate concise information for decision making
Strong team working skills
Key Mental/Analytical Skills and Challenges
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to cope with complex and uncertain environment
Self-confidence and good judgement
Ability to balance being supportive and challenging to programme teams
Attention to detail and right-first-time mind-set
Company/Industry Knowledge:
Familiarity with Aircraft Carrier Alliance processes and deliverables
Key Responsibilities:
Provide full support to the IPT lead/CAMS for allocated IPT areas including attendance at monthly SCAM reviews.
Actively support and continuously challenge IPT areas EAC updates (including change, risk and opportunity, escalation, Forex)
Responsible for ensuring IPT EAC reports and variance analysis is of high Quality to support presentation to Alliance Management Board and Customer community.
Responsible for managing Delivery IPT inputs to the monthly customer forecasting processes, including milestone achievement.
Oversee monthly cost allocation and verification processes, including supplier invoice approval, programme labour bookings and authorisation of journals and accruals.
Line Management Responsibility for ACA Project Accountant supporting Delivery IPT's Additional Key Accountabilities:
Continuously self-assess process compliance through ACA Assurance process.
Support Industrial Partners requests for information to support their internal accounting processes.
Drive functional and Programme continuous improvement objectives.
Deputise for Finance Director as required Quality Responsibilities and Accountabilities.
Accept responsibility for and demonstrates a visible commitment to Quality.
Lead by example and sets high personal standards.
Make time for Quality as an integral part of the role and actively communicate on Quality matters.
Consider the requirements and needs of all internal and external customers proactively.
Actively review Lessons Learned and prevent recurrence of errors and issues.
Understand team's Quality performance and actively set out to improve continuously.
Actively seek feedback from customers and peers.

Qualifications & Experience:
Qualifications: CIMA / ACCA qualified.

CIMA; ACCA; FCCA; ACMA; GCMA; ACA; AAT; Project Accountant; Management Accountant; Finance Manager; Finance Controller; FPA; Qualified Accountant; Senior Accounts Manager