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Finance Manager
Salary: Upto £63,000, 20% annual bonus, Car/allowance £6.600 plus Veolia benefits
Location: East Hertfordshire/Hybrid
When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources, and help it become a better place for everyone. It's why we're looking for someone who's just as committed as we are, to push for genuine change and bring our ambition of Ecological Transformation to life.
We know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
What we can offer you:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, plus option to buy up to 5 days
- Access to our company pension scheme
- Discounts on everything from groceries to well-known retailers
- Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to
- 24 hour access to a virtual GP, 365 days a year, for you and family members in your household
- One paid day's leave every year to volunteer and support your community
- Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
What you'll be doing:
The Finance Manager partners with the business to produce accurate monthly management accounts for contracts within your remit, reporting results to Regional Managers, Financial Controllers and General Managers. You'll prepare forecasts and budgets in liaison with Regional Managers, supporting and advising as required, whilst ensuring all contracts comply with company finance procedures and policies. This role combines accounting skills with effective management and concise communication to both financial and non-financial management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce timely and accurate monthly management accounts for contracts within your remit (circa £58m revenue)
- Analyse and report financial figures and operational KPIs, identifying and explaining unusual variances using systems including Workday, Tranman, PowerBI, and Adaptive Planning
- Manage and motivate a team of finance professionals (0-5 direct reports), fostering a culture of accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement
- Provide advice and guidance to Regional and Business Unit Management on all financial matters including costs, performance against budget/forecasts, and growth opportunities
- Develop and implement sustainability finance strategies, integrating ESG factors into financial decision-making
- Assist in the tender process for new bids and renewals where required
- Ensure effective auditing and control of stock, safeguarding business assets through reconciliation and internal processes
- Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders including suppliers, customers, and auditors
- Conduct regular performance reviews, providing constructive feedback and mentoring to enhance team members' technical skills
- Ensure compliance with all company finance policies and procedures across your business area
What we're looking for:
Essential:
- Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA)
- 5+ years post-qualification experience
- People management experience
- experience working across multiple sites and contracts
- Advanced business acumen and financial management skills
- Advanced relationship management and effective communication skills
- Proficient in IT systems and informed decision-making
- Experience with financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
Desirable:
- Experience working across multiple sites or contracts
- Knowledge of sustainability finance and ESG integration
- Project management qualification or experience
- Experience in the waste management or environmental services sector
What’s next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
We're proud to have been named as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for three consecutive years in 2023, 2024 and 2025. This consistent recognition reflects our commitment to our people, demonstrating that Veolia is not just transforming the environment, we're also transforming what it means to have a rewarding, purposeful career.
We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your application journey, offering adjustments where reasonable and appropriate. As a proud Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who opt-in to the Disability Confident scheme, and meet the minimum criteria for our roles.
We're also committed to ensuring that all applicants and colleagues receive fair treatment without discrimination on any grounds, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
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What We Do
Veolia UK provides solutions for ecological transformation. We are a company of almost 14,000 employees, although we prefer to think of ourselves as “resourcers”. Every day across the country our “resourcers” design and deploy useful and concrete solutions, which help our customers fight against climate change, prevent pollution of our water and create a circular economy where nothing goes to waste.
Every year, we serve around 1.8 million people through our municipal wastewater contracts. We complete over 400 million waste collections across our Local Authority contracts, serving over 3 million residential properties; and we treat over 1.5 million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste from our 85,000 private customers. We also produce over 560 MWe of renewable and low carbon electricity, to power over 1.3 million homes.
Veolia UK is an exciting and innovative place to work, but don't just take our word for it - we were named as one of the top 10 'Very Big Organisations' to work for in The Sunday Times' Best Places to Work 2024. We're resourcing the world through our purpose of ecological transformation, and we're doing this by working together to constantly progress. We are reinventing the way things work to reduce our environmental impact and increase efficiency, whether in the reuse of wastewater or the recovery of waste, such as plastics. At the same time, we anticipate the needs of tomorrow with innovative solutions that will decarbonise our energy and heating demands. We do this through the development of microgrids and energy management through our Hubgrade solution, which optimises the management of resources using digital and artificial intelligence.
We are driven by optimism and passion, not to see the world as it is, but how it should be; and we are tenacious in our efforts to achieve our goals.
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