Associate Director - Finance

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. 

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative, and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

Job Purpose

The associate director of finance role will provide support to several European sub-regions to grow, management of end-end financials and key finance processes (management accounts, reporting, cashflow, budgeting and forecasting processes) aswell as supporting the integration of PJM businesses into Turner & Townsend.

They will be a strong team player with a substantial ability to provide commercial finance and business partnering support.  

Responsibilities

• Key business partner of sub-regional/country MDs to drive the business forward
• Review of financial performance with suggestions to improve performance of key financial and non-financial metrics, i.e. profit, utilisation, WIP, project margin.
• Management of team responsible for monthly management accounts together with supporting financial analysis, commentary and job profitability.
• Provide commercial finance support and rate card information for bid signoffs.
• Maintaining and updating the internal control framework to ensure integrity of financial reporting process.
• Own the monthly forecast process to ensure an accurate representation of future revenue and profit expectations are shown by cost centre.
• Support the budget process end to end including meeting all deadlines set by group.
• Own the monthly cashflow process to ensure an accurate representation of future cashflows and balances
• Support establishment and financial management of new locations
• Support integration of PJM businesses into Turner & Townsend
• Working on ad-hoc projects including new systems implementations, business acquisitions, cross border projects etc.
• Line management responsibilities of direct reports
• Work across Europe Finance team to support whole team priorities and provide appropriate guidance and support as necessary.
• Focus on continuous improvement and identifying opportunities for process efficiencies and simplification.
• SOX control responsibilities are to be adhered to where applicable
• Support wider Finance with approval of supplier and payroll payments and other ad-hoc requests and admin as required.

Key Stakeholders

• RMD, sub-regional leads, country MDs and cost centre leads
• Europe Finance
• Group Finance

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)
• Ability to partner with Operations/delivery to expand and grow businesses while providing financial management / oversight
• Strong excel and MS office applications experience.
• Confident individual with good interpersonal skills and ability to work with people at all levels.
• Accuracy and high-level attention to detail
• Experience working in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• Substantial understanding of multi-currency environment, accounting principles and processes

Additional Information

Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.​

We champion our people to succeed in both work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.​

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.​

If this sounds like a challenge you’d like to hear more about, please submit an application for our recruitment team to review.  ​

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/​

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Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: 

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.