Company Description

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

Job Description

The role of a Finance Assurance Consultant will be supporting end-to-end service delivery, often with respect to large and complex infrastructure commissions covering both private and public sector clients. Your role will be to support the process that ensures client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added commercial assurance service.

You'll play a vital role in delivering Cost & Commercial Assurance commissions for our clients. This involves taking the responsibility for timely delivery, through to the effective reporting and presentation of results. An attention to detail is essential, but with an ability to position commercial context around the detail that enables our clients to make wider, impactful business decisions is just as important.

The Commercial Assurance Team is located across the UK and you will be based out of one of our regional offices to suite you such as London, Bristol, Birmingham. You will support Commercial Assurance Services across a wide range of sectors.

As a Consultant, you will need to be flexible and able to adapt to different client requirements at short notice including working remotely, and happy to travel both throughout the UK and abroad in the pursuit of successful delivery.

Here's what you'll do

• Finance system management, including SAP, analysing and monthly reporting. Creating and managing Purchase Order's, Goods Receipt process, Creating projects, Budget maintenance, Forecasting, Vendor management, aged debt reporting and management, invoice handling.
• Evaluation of cost data and structures and assessing them against contractual/ commercial principles.
• Analysis of cost data to identify patterns, themes, trends and risks.
• Appraisals of cost capture and commercial management processes.
• Detailed cost verification, payroll audits, and data sampling.
• Identification of process improvement opportunities for cost controls and commercial governance.
• Interfacing and engagement with project staff including finance staff to complete cost verification, substantiation together with obtaining key documentation/data.
• Management of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.
• Supporting the production of close-out reports.
• Presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their supply chain.
• Lead engagements when travelling to different sites/ locations nationally and internationally.
• Mentoring junior staff and upskilling both internal and external stakeholders in the arena of cost and commercial assurance.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

• Demonstrable experience of delivering service excellence to clients.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Experience in delivering cost and commercial assurance/ audit activities
• Competent in the interpretation of a wide range of contracts, with experience in the application of the principles of a schedule of cost components.
• Comfortable and experienced in analysing high volumes of data that are primarily excel driven, ideally with experience of different cost systems
• The ability to extract, interrogate and assess large data sets to problem solve and produce outputs that can be used in the decision-making process.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills
• Ability to work autonomously and in fast-paced environment, and able to adapt and meet challenges as they develop during the delivery stage
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Achieve the highest standards of professional competence and to demonstrate this ability in all dealings with clients and professional contacts, reinforcing the profile of the company.
• Maintain and develop good relationships with clients.
• Actively support the internal team on technically complex projects.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and believe in each person's potential. We'll help you reach yours. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.