Execution Controlling Lead

What You'll Be Doing:

• Partner with operational leaders to develop and manage monthly workload and forecast planning, ensuring resource demand and utilisation are accurately reflected.

• Provide meaningful financial insight by analysing business performance, identifying trends, and highlighting risks and opportunities.

• Support budget, forecast and cost centre management, helping stakeholders understand financial performance and key variances.

• Lead workload and headcount analysis, ensuring operational teams have the information they need to make effective resource decisions.

• Deliver monthly performance reporting, scorecards and management presentations for senior leadership reviews.

• Coordinate the annual operating plan and budgeting process.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across reporting, forecasting and finance processes.

• Explore opportunities to leverage technology and AI-driven solutions to improve efficiency, automation and decision making within the finance function.

• Lead, coach and develop a team of two finance professionals, helping them build technical capability and progress their careers.

What We're Looking For:

We're looking for someone who combines strong financial expertise with genuine curiosity about how a business operates. You'll be comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment, building credibility with senior stakeholders and providing constructive challenge when required.

You'll likely bring:

• Significant experience in finance, financial planning, commercial finance or finance business partnering roles.

• Previous leadership experience with a passion for coaching and developing others.

• Experience within a project-based business environment, with a strong understanding of project accounting principles and the financial dynamics of project delivery organisations.

• Strong forecasting, planning and analytical skills.

• The confidence to challenge stakeholders and influence decisions through data-driven insights.

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

• A naturally curious mindset with a desire to understand the wider business.

• Experience identifying process improvements and driving operational efficiencies.

• An interest in emerging technologies, automation and AI within finance would be highly advantageous.