Finance Assurance Consultant

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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.

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