Purpose of the Role

You will be accountable for financial management within the Transformation Investment Portfolio. The Project Accountant will be a key Finance resource whose role is to understand strategic project deliverables, manage costs and track benefit in line with the Group's strategic objectives.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the GTCS Lead Commercial Partner in monitoring the capital spend of all capital projects within the Group and ensure the relevant processes are actively implemented to ensure both financial and business risks are identified and mitigated.
• Act as the Finance lead and strategic advisor working collaboratively with in supporting budgeting, forecast and strategic reviews, challenging the numbers where appropriate and highlighting risks and opportunities
• Build and maintain Portfolio Financial reporting ensure senior stakeholders receive comprehensive and timely updates on Portfolio performance vs targets
• Build and maintain an in-depth understanding of the key priorities, risks and challenges facing Group Transformation Portfolio
• Analyse existing processes to resolve inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement
• Apply financial skills and business understanding to interpret, analyse and critically interrogate financial information, creating insights and solution-led outputs to enable Senior Stakeholder drive decisions and actions to achieve their overall objectives.
• Ensure the capital spend program is aligned to the Group Finance policies and procedures
• Work with the wider GTCS Finance team to support the achievement of overall Finance objectives.

Essential Qualifications

Qualified accountant with 5 years PQE or extensive experience gained within a relevant business environment

Essential Skills & Experience

Demonstrated experience in a business leadership or senior role, influencing and advising decision making through the delivery and interpretation of high-quality value financial information.

Strong interpersonal skills and adept at establishing professional creditability at all levels in a multifaceted Group Structure.

Strong evidence of intuition for business, decision-making and strategic execution to deliver the objectives of the Finance Division and support the overall Group strategy.

Excellent leadership skills, exemplifying the Group's values of being customer-centric, agile, accountable and being 'One Group One Team'.

Key Competencies

• Agile - Leader
• Champion Transformation - Leader
• Accountable - Leader
• Manage Risk - Leader
• One Group, one team - Leader