Financial Controller

Salary - Competitive + Veolia Benefits (Car Allowance & Generous Pension Scheme)

Location - This is a National role - with candidates ideally based close to central motorway links. Travel to Nationwide Veolia offices as required with hybrid working offered. 

Hours: 40 per week, fixed term opportunity for up to 12 months

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:

• 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 days leave every year to volunteer and support your community 

• Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential

A fascinating and unique fixed term contract has arisen for a Financial Controller to join our Treatment finance team for a period of 12 months. 

This opporttunity presents an excellent chance for an ambitious finance professional looking to enhance their career trajectory or broaden their experience.

The role is a senior position reporting directly into the Head of Central Finance - Treatment.  This one of a kind opportunity will see you both partner with operations to lead the strategic direction of the landfill business which includes composting, roadsweeping, IBA facilities and other alternative land use and collaborate with the wider Treatment business on both Group reporting requirements and our statutory accounts process including supporting on a number of technical accounting papers. You will have responsibility over financial oversight and compliance included within our provisions accounting, process improvement and risk management, statutory accounts compliance, leadership and team management, stakeholder collaboration, strategic decision support and sustainability integration.

You will lead and support a large team of finance professionals and create a culture that supports continuous learning and high performance.

Key to success will be the ability to positively challenge the business, to gain a deep understanding of the operations and associated strategy to ensure excellence in financial support. 

The successful candidate will be an articulate confident and robust team player and will be responsible for: 

• Production and review of the Landfill provisions to support audit and strategic decisions.

• Collaboration on the statutory accounts process, made up of 24 legal entities, to ensure all deliverables are met, managing the relationship with the external auditors (both Constantin and BSG) for the Treatment business.

• Completion and support of key revenue and audit papers

• Provide consolidated and timely financial reports to management and operational stakeholders, collaborating on budget and forecasting development and monitoring

• Preparation of impairment calculations and long term plans

• Support sales and operations with financial analysis and pricing strategies, and assisting procurement in optimising vendor relationships

• Help functions with financial feasibility of new initiatives

• Respond to internal financial inquiries, explaining complex concepts clearly

• Sponsor of Treatment finance initiative

• Demonstrating the performance of the company against forecasts and key KPIs, utilising a number of systems including Workday, Tranman, Infor, PowerBI, Adaptive Planning.

This role is crucial for informed decision-making, financial optimisation, and overall organisational success.

Whether you're seeking a promotion or a lateral move to expand your skill set, this role offers:

• Valuable exposure to high-level financial operations in our Treatment team

• Opportunity to develop leadership skills by managing a large, diverse team

• Chance to gain in-depth knowledge of our business operations and strategy

• Experience in collaborating with various stakeholders across the organisation

• Skill development in areas such as risk management, strategic decision-making, and sustainability integration

What we're looking for:

• A self driven individual with experience of Business Partnering, and a broad grounding of finance professional experience

• Significant post qualified experience, including people management of a geographically dispersed team

• High degree of system and data handling skills in particular standard office software products and ERP experience.

What's next?

Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.

We're proud to be listed in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024, being named as a Top 10 Very Big Organisation to work for two years in a row! This accolade further demonstrates our commitment to our people and our actions in creating an environment where everyone can be their true selves and enjoy working at Veolia.

We want to ensure that you feel supported throughout the application process and provide reasonable adjustments where necessary and requested. If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of your application and interview process please do not hesitate to let us know.

We know how important it is to be fully committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive place to work for every one of our colleagues. We are committed to ensuring that all job applicants and members of staff are treated equally, without discrimination because of sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

We therefore welcome and encourage all candidates who meet the minimum requirements to apply.