Finance Manager - 12 Month FTC

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role sits in the Finance Team for M Group Water, based in our Glasgow Office. The role is hybrid with 2 -3 days a week expected in Glasgow.

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What will you be doing?

You’ll play a key role in looking after the accounting for the remaining CWA JV and DV2 framework projects, helping to wind down the JV as its live contracts come to an end. CWA projects are forecast to finish in summer 2028, with one project remaining after January 2028, while DV2 projects are forecast to finish in December 2027. You’ll take ownership of the JV’s management accounts, prepare and post journals, review the CWA balance sheet and support the annual audit by providing information to auditors.

Alongside cash forecasting and work-in-progress (WIP) reviews, you’ll bring your financial and commercial insight to conversations, helping identify ways to improve business performance and support the delivery of key financial targets. Working closely with teams across the Division, you’ll build strong relationships, lead the analysis of central costs and recharges, and proactively identify and deliver process improvements that embed best practice.

Through month-end reporting and analysis, you’ll help key stakeholders understand performance, highlighting key variances, their underlying causes, and the risks and opportunities ahead.

What you’ll bring:

• Qualified Accountant with relevant post qualification experience
• Team player with a proven ability to hit deadlines, in a fast-paced environment
• Strong commercial acumen to support delivery of business goals
• Strong focus on controls, processes, and continuous improvement
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships and to use these relationships to get results
• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders and operate with impact and influence

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from or car allowance
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Company van and fuel card for business use
• Private health care - family cover
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus scheme

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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Skills

Commercial Skills - Reporting, Financial Jobs - Finance Assistant