Partnering with the Productivity team, project teams, and finance colleagues to support project margin reviews (PMR) and margin improvement actions.
Analysing project financial performance to identify margin leakage, recovery opportunities, recurring loss patterns, and improvement themes across the project lifecycle.
Linking productivity initiatives to project financial outcomes, helping the business understand where actions are driving measurable improvement, where value is at risk, and where expected benefits are not yet visible in the numbers.
Strengthening productivity governance by aligning baselines, assumptions, reporting logic, benefit tracking, and reconciliation to project financials, helping create one clear and trusted view of performance.
Working with commercial, sourcing, engineering, manufacturing, and project stakeholders to understand root causes and translate findings into practical actions.
Owning and developing the FPS product costing tool, ensuring it provides reliable costing insight for decision-making, while leading requirements, testing, adoption, and transition planning for more modern costing solutions.
Supporting ad hoc analysis for senior leaders on margin performance, risk areas, recovery actions, and emerging trends.
Using data, dashboards, and digital tools where useful to improve the speed, visibility, and consistency of financial insight.

Have a strong finance foundation, with relevant experience in FP&A, project finance, commercial finance, operations finance, or business partnering.
Be comfortable moving beyond reporting into a more operational, problem-solving role with direct business impact.
Have strong analytical capability and the ability to translate financial performance into clear business actions.
Be confident challenging data inconsistencies, aligning stakeholders around common definitions, and improving trust in the numbers.
Be able to challenge constructively, influence non-finance stakeholders, and work effectively across functions.
Have strong communication skills and the confidence to engage with project, operational, commercial, and finance leaders.
Be comfortable working in an environment where processes, tools, and visibility are still developing, while helping bring more structure and consistency over time.
Be confident using Excel and financial systems; exposure to Power BI or data visualisation would be useful.

Productivity Finance Specialist

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