Senior Finance Business Partner - Project Controlling

The Role

The role is to perform the project accounting, reporting & support the operations in managing all financial aspects programme delivery including planning & forecasting, monitoring & advising, project margin, project revenue profile and cashflow. 

Processing costing & reporting activities for the financial reporting of revenue, inventory, WIP, cost of goods sold, and underlying calculations and supporting analysis. This comprises short term delivery contracts and long-term construction contracts of 1 year+ with values of £10m+.

Who are we?

Chart Industries is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment servicing multiple applications in the clean energy and industrial gas markets. Chart employees over 11,700 people based across 64 global manufacturing locations and 50+ service centres. Recognised for an innovative edge and expansive portfolio, Chart has a global leadership position in process technologies with products and services in applications such as hydrogen, carbon capture, energy recovery, nuclear, water treatment, mining, and LNG to name a few. 

In 2023, Chart acquired Howden, a leading global engineering business. Since 1854, Howden has been at the forefront of developing engineering solutions for the needs of industrial processes. Today, Howden provide mission critical air and gas handling products to clients with our range of highly engineered compressors, blowers, fans, steam turbines and rotary heat exchangers. The strategic combination of Howden and Chart expands our offering of products and solutions across the Nexus of Clean™ -- clean power, clean water, clean food and clean industrials.

Together we are advancing a more sustainable future, by helping our customers to increase their environmental & functional efficiencies and decarbonise their operations. We have a strong corporate identity and a clear purpose - you will be a member of our team shaping the future of the company and participating in helping our customers tackle some of the planet's most pressing issues.

What will you do?

• Work with project management, engineering and operations teams to maintain the new equipment project costing spend to date and forecast spend to complete and project revenue profiles with comparison vs plan
• Performs project cost analysis and reporting for weekly review of high value orders and, on an ad hoc basis, other orders as required
• Prepare and present month-end reporting of actuals including variance analysis and commentary
• Customer order processing for long term construction contracts
• Manages the transaction processing for inventory and WIP accounting functions including running sub-ledger update routines and ad-hoc manual transactions as required to maintain accuracy and quality of inventory and WIP sub-ledgers and GL reporting balances
• Completion of monthly balance sheet reconciliations for inventory and WIP materials and labour, accruals, commissions, warranty, labour revaluation and contract provisions
• Preparation of routine and non-routine journal entries
• Analyses and act on issues arising from insight into project performance
• Support internal, SOX, and external audit requests as related to these areas of responsibility
• Ensure compliance with monthly reporting cycle deadline and Sarbanes Oxley requirements for the areas covered by the role

What do you bring?

An ideal candidate would likely have the following profile; 

• ACCA / ACA / CIMA qualified
• Strong background in manufacturing long-term project accounting 
• Proven experience partnering closely with a variety of business functions 
• Very strong IT / Excel & Microsoft Office package skills
• Organised & good prioritising skills
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, deadline driven, big corporate environment
• Very high standards
• Focus on team results
• Confident and effective in working with non-financial teams
• Proactive in engaging others in solving problems
• Resilient and a self-starter with a can-do attitude

We’ve put together some criteria that we think is important for this role, but don’t worry if your experience and expertise isn’t an exact match. If you feel that you can add value to our role and to Howden more broadly, we would welcome your application and be eager to learn more about you.

Our Benefits Package...

This is a permanent position based at our office in Peterborough, including an early finish on Friday. Our range of fantastic benefits includes:

• A flexible, hybrid working environment 
• Generous holiday entitlement package totalling 33 days annual leave 
• Howden Pension Plan with a maximum employer contribution of 7%
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental and adoption leave pay
• Free onsite parking 
• Healthcare cash plan 
• Group Income Protection Plan 
• Group Life Assurance plan at 3x salary
• Access to My Howden Benefits & Wellbeing Portal – Cycle2Work programme, range of discounts across various retailers, wealth of information to support health & wellbeing 
• Dedicated Help@Hand Service – free counselling, physiotherapy, financial support, medical second opinion, remote GP, personal training, nutrition consultations etc 
• Opportunity to be involved in our ESG ‘Bright Future’ initiatives – STEM ambassador & volunteering

Chart is an equal opportunities employer

The Company intention in respect of recruitment, selection and promotion is to appoint the most suitable candidate for each job regardless of that person’s race, religious beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age or disability.