Project Budget Controller

Freedom's Professional Services team is seeking a Project Budget Controller for their Leeds office, offering a hybrid working arrangement. The ideal candidate will possess some accounting experience and be pursuing an AAT qualification. This role involves monitoring project activities, reporting KPIs, and ensuring budget compliance. Key responsibilities include generating reports, conducting project investigations, managing invoicing and purchase orders, and overseeing the Focalpoint platform. The position offers a competitive salary and various benefits, including a pension scheme, health insurance, and personal development opportunities. Freedom is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace culture.

Project Budget Controller Leeds Permanent Competitive Flexible Benefits Summary Freedom’s Professional Services team are looking for a Project Budget Controller to be based out of our Leeds office on a hybrid basis.

This will ideally be someone with some Accounting experience of some sort and be working towards their AAT qualification.

Working closely with Finance and Team Leaders, the Project Budget Controller will monitor and report on project and portfolio activities and KPIs, reporting into the Operations Manager for the business unit.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include: Providing the design business management with project and portfolio level data, such as total number of projects with underspend, BU invoicing histograms, and tracking of overtime on projects.

Running standard and ad-hoc reports for the management team on projects and/or people, as requested.

Undertaking specific project investigations as requested; performing route-cause analysis to determine why projects are not performing/suffering poor performance.

Ensuring timesheets are submitted in a timely manner.

Collation of resource utilisation data from staff timesheets.

Undertaking project reviews in real-time as part of the monitoring function, ensuring not going over-budget and costs allocated correctly.

Invoicing (including raising of credit notes), and monitoring against forecast.

Raising purchase orders and goods receipting.

Identification of budget releases at month end.

Support with onboarding of new customers.

Owning the Focalpoint platform for managing projects in the design business, acting as key point of contact for any Focalpoint issues or requests for information by engineers/ management.

Understanding all functionality in Focalpoint and advising on best practices for use of the platform.

Supporting Engineers/TLs on Earned Value Analysis of their projects.

Communicating best practice, e.g.

project naming and timesheet reporting.

What we’re looking for : Previous experience in an Accountancy setting with an understanding around accounting logic.

Ideally working towards AAT qualification.

Good MS Excel skills including the use of look ups and pivot tables.

– Essential Benefits: We’re always evolving our benefits to ensure we’re attracting and retaining great people.

Some of what you can expect includes: Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution 25 days holiday Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days Private Medical Insurance Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice) Flexible benefits to suit from Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes.

Personal development programme Next Steps: As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect.

This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of timewith plenty of notice.If you require any accommodations to participatein the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us Freedom are part of the NG Bailey Group, one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK.

Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

You will be working as part of a team where we are committed to creating a culture where we treat each other fairly and with respect, recognising everyone as an individual.

Progression is something we value and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.

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