Hybrid Project Financial Controller

Posted 12 hours ago

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About the role

  • Project Financial Controller at Methods responsible for margin tracking and reporting for public sector projects. Collaborating with Technical Project Managers to improve financial outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and report on project margin performance against defined half-yearly targets, identifying risks and opportunities.
  • Partner with Technical Project Managers to ensure margin-impacting factors (revenue, costs, financial progress) are tracked and understood.
  • Analyse movements in project margins and provide narrative and recommendations to improve financial outcomes.
  • Lead or support the automation of project margin reporting using tools such as Power BI, Excel, and Power Query.
  • Develop clear and insightful dashboards and reporting outputs to support operational and leadership-level decision-making.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of project control processes, with a focus on simplification, consistency, and transparency.
  • Become a key user of the internal project management tool used to calculate and present margin performance.
  • Provide ad-hoc support to project teams and leadership in relation to margin analysis, performance tracking, and reporting.

Requirements

  • Experience in project financials, ideally within a technology, engineering, or consultancy environment.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial data and communicate insights clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
  • Experience supporting or driving process improvement and standardization initiatives.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; working knowledge of Power BI and Power Query is highly desirable.
  • Comfortable working with financial data related to project revenues, costs, and margins.
  • Ability to build effective working relationships with technical teams and collaborate across functions.
  • Part-qualified or studying towards a financial qualification (e.g., **ACA**, **CIMA**, **ACCA**) is a plus but not essential.
  • This role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance.

Benefits

  • Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience.
  • Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society.
  • Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership.
  • A supportive and collaborative environment.
  • Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme.
  • Social – Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes.
  • Time off 25 days a year.
  • Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution.
  • Life Assurance of 4 times base salary.
  • Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included).
  • Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included).

Job title

Project Financial Controller

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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