Start here. Grow here.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 &amp; 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<ul><li>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.</li><li>Evaluation of cost data and structures and assessing them against contractual/ commercial principles.</li><li>Analysis of cost data to identify patterns, themes, trends and risks.</li><li>Appraisals of cost capture and commercial management processes.</li><li>Detailed cost verification, payroll audits, and data sampling.</li><li>Identification of process improvement opportunities for cost controls and commercial governance.</li><li>Interfacing and engagement with project staff including finance staff to complete cost verification, substantiation together with obtaining key documentation/data.</li><li>Management of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.</li><li>Supporting the production of close-out reports.</li><li>Presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their supply chain. </li><li>Lead engagements when travelling to different sites/ locations nationally and internationally.</li><li>Mentoring junior staff and upskilling both internal and external stakeholders in the arena of cost and commercial assurance.</li></ul>If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!

AECOM is the world&rsquo;s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle &ndash; from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Finance Assurance Consultant

Start here. Grow here.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 &amp; 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<ul><li>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.</li><li>Evaluation of cost data and structures and assessing them against contractual/ commercial principles.</li><li>Analysis of cost data to identify patterns, themes, trends and risks.</li><li>Appraisals of cost capture and commercial management processes.</li><li>Detailed cost verification, payroll audits, and data sampling.</li><li>Identification of process improvement opportunities for cost controls and commercial governance.</li><li>Interfacing and engagement with project staff including finance staff to complete cost verification, substantiation together with obtaining key documentation/data.</li><li>Management of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.</li><li>Supporting the production of close-out reports.</li><li>Presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their supply chain.&nbsp;</li><li>Lead engagements when travelling to different sites/ locations nationally and internationally.</li><li>Mentoring junior staff and upskilling both internal and external stakeholders in the arena of cost and commercial assurance.</li></ul>If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!

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