Finance Project Controller at Arcadis · London

Finance Project Controller

Location: London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

This role will be managing a team to proactively support Project Managers to ensure Arcadis projects are set up, forecast, billed and closed in a timely manner as set out in the Arcadis Way Principles. Work closely with our Finance Controllers to ensure accurate reporting of performance, minimise working capital and escalate risks identified.

Direct Reports: Project Accounting Specialists , Project Finance Analyst

Working Relationships & Contacts:

• Project Managers & Business Directors – day to day support
• Credit Control – liaising and supporting for cash collection.
• Accounts Payable / Procurement - liaising and supporting for timely payment of suppliers.
• Project Finance – collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Financial Accounting team
• Management Reporting team

Role accountabilities:

• Provide effective management to engage, motivate and develop all direct reports
• Build trusted relationships with Business Directors to ensure appropriate quality and service
• Drive working capital improvements through timely billing, proactive support for cash collection, and close collaboration with Credit Control and operational teams to resolve issues quickly.
• Train Project Managers on Oracle and support where required
• Advise Project Managers on efficient project set-up structures, ensuring revenue recognition in compliance with IFRS
• Identify continuous improvement and encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing across the wider finance team
• Support Project Managers to reforecast projects as required; identify and challenge project performance changes to drive accuracy of month end reporting
• Support on project reviews as required; report any risks identified to management
• Lead robust project forecasting and review cycles, challenging assumptions and ensuring movements in forecast and backlog are understood, realistic, and well supported.
• Use financial and operational insight to challenge performance, improve predictability, and support stronger commercial outcomes.
• Support Business Partners interpret month end results; review and analyse P&L results including multiplier, FB and indirect costs.
• Support Business Partners with the business planning & estimate process
• Provide insightful management information to Business Directors / Operations Directors
• Comply with Arcadis Way policies and procedures

Dimensions of The Role:

• Responsible for delivering timely & high quality financial support to the business
• Acts as a key finance contact and trusted business partner for Business Directors
• Work collaboratively with other Finance Managers & Finance Business Partners to support the wider business and drive continuous improvement

Some ad-hoc travel across UK locations will be required

Qualifications & Experience:

• Fully Qualified accounting qualification or equivalent by experience
• Ability to organise, motivate and develop a team
• Relevant experience of working in a medium/large organisation
• Excel and ERP to a medium proficiency
• Attention to detail and consistent high standards
• Good inter-personal and communication skills
• Excellent time management skills

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.