Operational finance manager

• Salary: Competitive

• Location: Hybrid (London/Home)

• Working Pattern: Hybrid (at least 3 days in office)

• Job Type: Permanent

• Start date: ASAP

• Level: SFIA 4

• Reports to: Chief of Staff

THE VACANCY:

Cyro is looking for an Operational Finance Manager to join the Operations Department, reporting to the Chief of Staff.  

This position provides an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to be the key interface between Project & Service Delivery teams and our outsourced Finance function. The role will involve Financial Analysis, Customer Invoicing, Supplier management, and Management Reporting of performance indicators to the company’s Operating Board and Senior Management Team. 

Cyro is looking for someone to take ownership of this critical operational and financial activity to enable the continued growth of the business.  

The candidate will be expected to drive efficiencies throughout the team and broader company operations through development and adherence to business process, effective process adoption and change management. 

Primary responsibilities:

Business financial analysis, data interpretation, commentary, exception identification and error resolution using the following reports:  

• project and service margin  

• consultant utilisation  

• project overrun and underrun against sold 

• consultancy backorder  

• project budget vs actual 

• delivery forecast month and quarter ahead 

• project status and risk 

• adhoc requests

• Maintain Forecast dashboards, roll monthly reports and create new reports as required. 

• Assist with Head Office financial reporting & analysis. 

• Review internal project codes to validate correctness and variance to budget.   

• Work with project managers, Head of Project Delivery and Head of Service Delivery to communicate the customer project & services billing instructions to our Finance team, including the preparation of billing accruals and deferrals.  

• Resolve customer billing queries. 

• Propose any invoicing correction and request credit notes for approval. 

• Align any external supplier cost of sales with associated revenue.   

• Align contracted days for placements with external contractor.  

• Manage customer purchase orders and renewal on annual expiry. 

• Manage customer rechargeable expenses.  

• Manage staff training budget.

•  Review and approve staff reimbursable expenses.  

• Review and validate supplier payments.  

• Identification and feedback of further business opportunities.  

•  Support Operating Board team with adhoc financial and / or data analysis requests. 

crtitial Competencies

• Ability to work effectively in a changing and time-pressured environment with deadlines.  

• Demonstrate tenacious commercial awareness. 

• Accurate, detail driven and possess strong organisational skills. 

• Strong advocacy to client needs, striving to meet or exceed client expectations. 

• Ability to communicate with peers as well as senior management. 

• Experienced in professional timesheet driven projects as well as recurring managed service sector. 

• Enjoy being a team player, ability to convey company culture, values and work ethic to internal staff as well as customers and business partners. 

Essential skills and experience:   

• Eligible to work in the UK and eligible for BPSS clearance. 

• Proven numeracy / accounting skills either by experience or working towards AAT qualification or other accountancy institute. 

• Excellent organisational skills and planning skills. 

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.  

• Takes responsibility and ownership of tasks, seeking clarification as required.  

• Fully conversant with Microsoft suite of products - to include Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Power BI, SharePoint and Teams.  

• “Can do” attitude and team member. 

Desireable Characteristics

• Eligible for SC (Security Clearance). 

• Advantageous knowledge of Microsoft Business Central and Forecast (part of Accelo) application. 

• Desirable experience within the cyber security industry sector. 

Levels of responsibility: SFIA Level 4

So why choose Cyro for your next opportunity?

To build, run and maintain a successful compliance programme, you need a connected approach – a team you can trust from strategy to support, and everything in between. At Cyro, this is what we do!

As part of our team, you could be working with some of the biggest names in the Critical Nation Infrastructure and Service Provider sectors including London Underground, Network Rail, Transport for London, RNLI, MOD and more. You’ll help us ensure the most important messages get through – however tough the conditions.

Here are just some of the ways we’re different:

• You’ll go further with us. We understand the importance of career development and will give you all the support you need to realise your potential. You’ll receive formal training, e-learning and mentoring from top professionals. And we offer opportunities to transfer to other sectors – or even different technology areas.

• You’ll make a difference. You could be working outdoors, battling the elements, or in one of our many offices helping us develop the network infrastructures of tomorrow.

• You’ll be treated as an individual. We’re not a vast corporation, which means every individual counts. With us, you’ll be valued and supported, involved and empowered from day one.

• You’ll be well rewarded. We offer salary progression that reflects market rates and personal performance, a flexible working environment and excellent training.

Excellent Employee Benefits:

Cyro is committed to ensuring that we offer industry leading career opportunities, salary and benefits packages. Join us and you can expect to receive:

• 25 days holiday, including public holidays, plus the option to buy or sell five days each year

• Company pension scheme

• A range of family friendly policies

• An employee-funded car leasing scheme

• Occupational health support

• Cyro Rewards Scheme

apply now:

Please send your CV to hr@cyro.uk

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Cyro is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.

This job description sets out the duties and responsibilities of the job at the time when it was drawn up.  Such duties and responsibilities may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed.  Such variations are a common occurrence and cannot in themselves justify a reconsideration of the grading of the job.