Description
Financial Controller, Wellesbourne, Project Accounting, Qualified, 3 months+
My client a major automotive company is looking to appoint a Financial Controller to their midlands based IT PMO service to deliver upon their commitments and ensuring that all projects are on track
Key Purpose Of Role:
- Provides the IT leadership team and programme leads with the latest financial position of each programme, so that the right management decisions can be made in a timely manner
- Liaises with JLR IT Finance teams to ensure correct allocation of items/work to be capitalised in line with the correct and applicable fiscal policies including any in country rules of the programme concerned
- Works with the project teams to ensure the underlying data that supports MI is correct and up to date
- Reports to Head of PfMO (David Baldwin) and IT Programme Finance Lead (Sean Jobber)
Key Responsibilities:
- Provides the control and monitoring needed for the IT leadership team to make decisions accurately and report financial position to the relevant JLR stakeholders
- Maintains baseline cost models of programmes and reports any exceptions to these baselines in a timely manner to the IT and Finance management team
- Builds in reporting for actual, committed and forecast spend based on baseline cost model
- Reports on cash-flow forecast of each programme
- Ensures programmes are managing to JLR FY budget, and manages any roll over of budget to subsequent FY to ensure programmes maintain overall programme budget
- Ensures that commercial milestones are in line with the financial cost model
- Coaches programme teams in financial management processes and best practices to ensure adherence to the controls and methods in place
- Contributes to all aspects of project and programme management methodology across IT Programme portfolio
- Facilitates and builds in lessons identified and learned
- Understands and applies knowledge of JLR finance processes and rules
- Provides guidance and coaching to programme team members on key financial processes
Key skills:
- Project accounting skills (ideally CIMA qualified)
- Strong communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills
- Political understanding & sensitivity
- Innovative, delivery focused with solution-focused mind-set
- Build and maintain clear and concise management information of project financials
- Understanding of SAP ERP/ECC and any other financial modules of SAP
- Knowledge of IT accounting treatments eg what can be capitalised typically
- Understanding of SAP BI reporting capability
If you wish to apply for the above position, please call me or email
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 24 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
Pontoon is a global HR outsourcing company specializing in improving an organization's talent. We manage the contingent workforce and statement of work resources on behalf of our clients, as well as source and recruit direct hires. Pontoon's approach results in significant cost savings and revenue improvement, increased worker quality, workforce insight and greater regulatory compliance. A division of Adecco with operations in nearly 100 countries and with more than 1,500 colleagues worldwide, the Jacksonville, Florida-based organization delivers solutions to more than 150 industry-leading companies.