An opportunity has arisen to recruit a Finance Manager for Projects, which is driven by the launch of the EP UK Construction business to deliver high value and large-scale construction projects across the group, including a mixture of new build and refurbishments in various locations across the Great Britain and Irish markets.
The role is responsible for providing financial oversight and challenge across these projects and will be a key business partner to the Project teams. This will involve attending and presenting at key Project meetings on the financial status, providing commercial support and challenge to the Project Director and Project Managers, and indirectly managing others in the Finance team involved in projects, with full ownership of the management reporting for EP UK Construction.
This will be a challenging and evolving role, requiring flexibility from the role holder to meet the demands of the role, and represents an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing area of the EPUKI business.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Head of Finance - Projects, the key duties and responsibilities will be:

Business Partnering

• Working closely with Project Director, Project Managers and non-finance teams local to each project, to understand wider aspects and impacts of any proposals and challenge financial assumptions where necessary.
• Supporting and challenging the various stakeholders involved, to ensure decisions that are taken on each project are cost effective and maximise value.
• Consideration of commercial implications of any finance proposals made, with detailed knowledge and understanding of key contracts and closely working alongside the Procurement team.

Forecasting / Budgeting

• Supporting the establishment of regular and robust forecasting/budgets for any current projects in scope.
• Delivering key financial modelling/analysis in a timely and accurate manner, with support from across the wider Finance team.
• Overseeing the monitoring of spend against project budget/forecast, ensuring investigation of variances and flagging of risks and opportunities to finance leadership and non-finance project members.
• Working with the business to track and accurately reforecast against project budget on a regular (e.g. monthly) basis, including the tracking and management of liquidated damages and any disputed amounts under key contracts for each project.
• Ensuring robust cash forecasting and controls are in place, particularly regarding major milestone payments, on both internal and external contracts.

Financial Reporting

• Analysing and optimising the financial performance of the project, including flagging of any risks and opportunities to the Financial Controller for Projects, the Project Director and senior management.
• Ownership of monthly management accounts for projects in development.
• Group reporting of EP UK Construction Ltd to parent company.
• Presenting latest spend and forecasts at project update meetings.
• Providing direction on SAP data entry and influencing the business to ensure information is recorded accurately and maximising efficiency both in terms of input and reporting outputs.

Other

• Consider compliance with HMRC VAT and construction industry specific tax legislation, and other statutory requirements (including, but not limited to, maximising / timing of capital allowances), working closely with the relative team experts to confirm impacts.
• Managing and ensuring that all potential billing is conducted on a timely and accurate basis, as well as ensuring the correct intercompany treatment, where applicable.
• Providing any other project related support to senior stakeholders as required.
• Providing recommendations on costing of construction costs as required, to support the most cost-efficient approach to minimise the risk of delay to project delivery.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Background

• Financial modelling experience - essential.
• Experience in a similar business partnering finance role - essential.
• Knowledge of accounting standards and their appropriate application - essential.
• Basic understanding of UK taxation - essential.
• Experience in a supporting and/or leading role in delivery of large-scale projects - desirable.
• Experience with SAP - desirable.

Behaviours

• Strong excel skills, with the ability to build and use excel models and analyse data - essential.
• Commercially astute and driven to achieve - essential.
• Able to quickly build effective working relationships within and outside of finance function - essential.
• Can engage, challenge and influence others at a senior stakeholder level through verbal and written communication - essential.
• Pragmatic and flexible in approach, but with strong time management and the ability to prioritise - essential.
• A strategic, diligent and analytical thinker with the ability to interrogate data and create commercial solutions - essential.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with significant post-qualification experience (or proven post-qualification experience) - essential
• Qualified to Degree level or equivalent - desirable.

About EP UK Investments Ltd
EPUK Investments Ltd (EPUKI) is the UK division of Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH), a leading energy group of over 70 companies that owns and operates assets across Europe. EPH group employs circa 24,000 people internationally, owns €30.5bn of assets, generating €37.1bn of revenue and an EBITDA of €4.3bn.
EPUKI was established in 2015 as the strategic platform for expanding the EPH group into the UK energy market. Since launching, EPUKI has made several acquisitions and developed a number of new opportunities and now owns multiple renewable and flexible power generating assets in the UK and Ireland.
EPUKI has grown rapidly to revenues ~£3.5bn and EBITDA ~£300m. We pride ourselves on an entrepreneurial culture and flat leadership structure where individuals (wherever they are in the organisation) can make a real impact on our business.

Our aim is to enable the UK and Ireland low carbon transition through provision of flexible and reliable energy supply. To achieve this, we will:

• develop, construct and acquire the right assets to support the transformation of the energy system;
• invest in our people and our assets to best respond to the changing needs of our sector;
• continuously challenge ourselves to identify opportunities, build our knowledge and develop innovative solutions.

EPUKI is one of the largest independent generators in the UK and Ireland, with an asset base that covers multiple technologies and a range of revenue streams; these include fully merchant baseload and peaking plant and index traded baseload plants, providing a range of system services across the energy and balancing spectrum.
Despite its significant market presence, EPUKI has a flat structure with fast paced decision-making ability enabling better optimisation of market positions. The market continues to evolve and develop as the UK and Irish governments drive towards Net Zero with increasing challenges of renewables penetration, introduction of hydrogen and other new technologies.

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