What you'll be doing

As an Internal Reporting Manager you will be responsible for:

• Leading a team of Management Accountants to produce monthly management accounts, including profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, cash flows, variance analysis, key performance indicators, and supporting commentaries.


• Maintain and improve management accounting processes, implementing and communicating any required changes.


• Provide supporting data and relevant analysis to aid decision-making for strategic business unit (SBU) teams.


• Ensure management and half-year/full-year fiscal reporting is fully reconciled and aligned.


• Prepare, submit, and review all consolidated management accounts for SBU and Group Finance review and sign-off.


• Validate and upload monthly actual results, budgets, and forecasts to the Group consolidation and reporting model (HFM) in line with required deadlines.


• Collaborate with the Accounting Services Management Team to execute strategic and operational objectives.


• Lead and support designated projects, ensuring compliance with finance processes, controls, and regulatory frameworks.


• Proactively identify and resolve issues, creating innovative solutions to maintain a balance between risk, reward, and compliance.


• Recruit, lead, manage, coach, and appraise team members, ensuring motivation and effective management to meet stakeholder needs.


• Provide high-level customer service to internal and external stakeholders.


• Act as the primary point of contact with Heads of Departments, Financial Controllers (FCs), and Finance Directors (FDs).


• Provide effective business partnering and relationship management.

Who we're looking for

Qualifications and Experience:

• Preferably a qualified accountant (ACA / CIMA / ACCA or equivalent) with additional post-qualification experience.


• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.


• Strong accounting experience with a sound understanding of management accounting disciplines.


• Excellent understanding and working knowledge of accounting and reporting systems, including multicurrency ERP systems (preferably Oracle), applicable legislation, and the statutory and regulatory framework.


• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.


• Good presentation skills and the ability to challenge existing processes to improve performance.


• Demonstrable ability to support business planning in a shared service environment and develop key processes and KPIs to evaluate and improve performance.


• Experience in leading, managing, developing, and motivating colleagues.


• Relevant experience in managing in a customer service-focused organization with a track record of delivery.


• Strong change management experience and a continuous improvement mentality.


• Awareness of Financial Reporting Standards and global accounting practices.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.


• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)


• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave


• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com