Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

We are currently looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our office in Utretcht, Netherlands. This role will liaise closely with the transactional team and take direction from the Senior Finance Business Partner responsible for the financial operations of the region.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the accuracy and reporting of the project performance metrics (revenue & margin) for the Region and Business Management. This includes the provision of key project based reporting, contract management and data reconciliations for revenue recognition / Project Status Report (PSR).

Key Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the accuracy of the management accounting suite of reports for the cluster(s).
• Provide business partner support to the cluster through targeted reporting, support for utilisation management, project structure (tax etc.) and Bid Pack assistance.
• Manage the results analysis process in line with the monthly timetable the agreed cluster review actions and risks & opportunities.
• Manage the forecast and budget processes including insights into the orderbook and pipeline phasing, utilisation trends and variance analysis.
• Provide FP&A services through the delivery of cluster reporting, project support, variance analysis.
• Oversee the periodic review and accuracy of project forecasts, including the sign off the revenue, EAC and margin relating to the monthly result.
• Coordinate the Project Review process, including maintenance of PSR information such as finish dates, project managers and review notes.
• Manage the completion of the internal governance requirements including monthly ACC and ICQ.
• Responsible for the provision of the External Order Intake (EOI) data and its reconciliation to MSD.
• Provide specialist financial and commercial assistance to the BD and Ops community in the preparation of bid pack estimates.
• Oversee the review process for CAT 4 projects including the monthly forecast update and completion of the half yearly reporting template.
• Undertake adhoc project and variance analysis work as required and provide leave / overload support.

Behavioural Competencies

• External Focus - Builds an externally focused culture.
• Settings Goals & Priorities - Sets priorities to achieve business goals and informs direction of business area.
• Working in Teams - A key player in building and maintaining positive team culture.
• Managing and Driving Performance - Continuously drives performance / builds a high performing team.

Required Technical Competencies

• Accounting or relevant tertiary qualifications

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.