What you'll be doing - your accountabilities
* Budget Management: Collaborating with Directors, your role involves ensuring the judicious allocation of budgets across the portfolio, while also vigilantly overseeing change control throughout the fiscal year.
* Accurate Forecasting: You hold the reins of precision, ensuring monthly forecasts align with predetermined budgets. Your close collaboration with Project Managers guarantees the quality and reliability of these forecasts.
* Effective Billing: You are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that Projects and the Portfolio as a whole efficiently recover costs in accordance with approved funding, thereby maintaining accurate project accounting.
* Comprehensive Financial Reporting: Through close collaboration with Project Managers, you produce financial reports that are easy to understand, upholding the highest standards of accuracy.
* Proactive Risk Management: you continuously identify, track, manage, and report financial risks, issues, and opportunities, thereby fostering financial resilience.
* Your role embodies meticulous project accounting, orchestrating prudence, precision, and proactive management across the Delivery Portfolio & Networks Services.

The skills you'll need to succeed
* Storytelling with data: strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences
* Organised & detail orientated -strong understanding of incoming funding and how you manage the spend/costs throughout the year
* Negotiation skills - working with stakeholders (inc CFUs (Customer Facing Units)), ensuring you are firm in your negotiations
* Stakeholder management - as the person responsible for ensuring that we meet scorecard KPI's you'll need to work closely with other teams and challenge where necessary
* Reporting - creation of reports that are useful, accurate and unambiguous
* Commercial acumen: Knowledgeable in business strategy and the drivers of organisational performance, financial literacy (e.g. business KPIs, business cases)

Experience you'd be expected to have
* MANDATORY: Strong track record of managing budgets
* MANDATORY: Ability to demonstrate specific opportunities to transform and simplify a business approach to managing finances
* MANDATORY: Creating and delivering reports which are well used, timely and appropriate
* MANDATORY: Risk management - you need to call out and manage risks, and deliver good and bad news
* PREFERRED: Experience of managing suppliers and vendors
* PREFERRED: Experience in project accounting



LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.