Description
Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Great Minster House, London SW1P 4DR
Contract Length: 8 months
Client: DFT
CV Submission Deadline: by 10:30 am on Friday 30th May
Clearance Level Required: BPSS with DS
Additional Info:
The job involves liaising with the Train operating companies to obtain financial data and produce long form reports
Essential Experience:
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Advanced ability to gather, assess, analyse and interpret commercial and technical information through financial models and due diligence exercises
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Ability to create and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships
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Experience in bidding environment and Due Diligence
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Qualified accountant with a strong financial and commercial experience
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Ability to handle large volumes of information, challenge data and generate Long Form Reports
Desirable Experience: Previous Rail experience
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Manage the delegated budget; Ensure compliance with finance and procurement policies; Provide procurement advice; Manage finances, assets and payroll reconciliation; Identify and gain agreement for measures to deliver budget efficiencies through either cost-savings, re-allocation of financial resources or external sourcing of services; Ensure regular review of expenditure take place; Assist and support budget holders to scrutinize their own budgets; Production of monthly, quarterly and annual financial accounts, forecasts and budgets as required. Must be an experienced user of Oracle accounting systems and be advanced in using Excel spreadsheets
Additional qualifications: Specialist knowledge - Qualified accountant or other relevant qualification with relevant commercial experience.
Key tasks and deliverables:
Key tasks will include, liaising directly with the incumbent TOC to ascertain a data set that is both accurate and meaningful and tested for integrity. This level of detailed information is not usually readily available to the DFT outside of the refranchising process. As such, it is integral to the successful completion of the LFR that a sound working relationship is established with the incumbent TOC team to facilitate the timely provision and interpretation of relevant information.
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Meet with Project Lead to understand deadlines for the Long Form Report, data site requirements and ITT.
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Engage with Commercial Managers, fares and ticketing and the Rail Performance team who will provide background information about the franchise operations and other key issues and data.
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Hold initial meeting with TOC personnel to define/outline the task and agree a process, personnel and timescales for working together as well as request the Nominal Ledger for the Review Period.
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Review and send generic queries list to TOC personnel.
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Meet with TOCS on a regular basis to discuss progress, outstanding questions and arrange meetings with relevant specialists in areas of the business.
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Produce a draft copy of the report for extended review.
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Finalise report and obtain TOC sign off. The first drafts of the Long Form Reports are expected to be complete in September 2014 with a 6 month addendum due at the end of 2014 or early 2015.
Experience Required:
The successful candidate will need:
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Advanced ability to gather, assess, analyse and interpret commercial and technical information through financial models and due diligence exercises
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Ability to create and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships
Radiant Systems Europe Limited is acting as an employment agency for this role