Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could shape a career as unique as you? At WSP, you can always find opportunities to grow and do what matters to you. Make the most of our global reach to discover new challenges and chances to work with diverse, talented individuals who will help you expand your horizons. The role sits within the Finance Business Partnering function reporting to the Discipline or Senior Finance Business Partner. Primary stakeholders include a defined set of operational leaders and managers such as Service Line Directors and Profit Centre Managers. The key purpose is to support the WSP business to deliver profitable and sustainable growth by providing dedicated financial planning and decision support aligned to strategic and customer priorities. You will work with a number of business centres to challenge assumptions, influence decisions, and make recommendations for efficiency improvements to sustain growth and quality of earnings.

The core accountabilities include remaining accountable for the accuracy, completeness, and compliance of financial records (including balance sheet, profit and loss, cash flow and forecasts). Ensuring variance between budgets, forecasts and actual results are anticipated in advance, with root causes understood, clearly explained and necessary actions implemented. Identifying, assessing, and mitigating financial and commercial risks and opportunities, supporting the business in balancing risk with return, and acting as a trusted point of contact by transforming financial and non-financial information into insight. Using insight to challenge and influence business decisions to improve financial performance of WSP projects and services. Challenging and monitoring overall project income, cost to complete, working capital and change control, engaging in project reviews for prioritised projects. Ensuring corporate financial governance and control is understood, adhered to, and communicated effectively to the business. Driving and responding to change within and outside of the organisation while maintaining the WSP finance operating model.

Experience
Understanding of finance business partnering, with experience of supporting a variety of stakeholders. Confident in communicating with stakeholders. Experience working in collaboration with shared services teams is desirable.

About you
Committed to continuous improvement and lifelong learning. Able to challenge assumptions and influence decisions. Strong analytical skills with the ability to transform financial and non-financial information into actionable insight.

Qualifications
Studying towards a full accountancy qualification with a recognised organisation (ACA, CIMA, ACCA), expecting to complete within 3 years.