Group FP&A Accountant

We're looking for a Group FP&A Accountant to join our dynamic finance team and play a key role in supporting strategic decision-making across the Group.

Working closely with Group Finance, Finance teams across Europe and Australia, and senior leaders throughout the business, you'll help drive forecasting, reporting, business planning, and financial insight in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver insightful analysis of Group financial performance to support senior management decision-making.
• Support the annual budgeting process, monthly forecasting, and long-term business planning activities.
• Prepare and produce Group reporting packs for key committees and stakeholders.
• Partner with international finance teams to ensure alignment on forecasts, performance, and intercompany balances.
• Support quarterly business reviews and governance processes.
• Develop financial models to evaluate risks, opportunities, and strategic scenarios.
• Provide commercial and financial analysis to support operational and strategic decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, systems, and reporting capabilities.
• Support a range of ad hoc projects and business initiatives.

About You

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a commercial mindset.
• Confident communicator, able to build relationships and influence senior finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Highly organised, accurate, and detail-oriented.
• Proactive, resilient, and collaborative with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with Power BI, Python, or other automation tools is advantageous.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [email protected]