Siemens Gamesa

A Snapshot of Your Day

We’re looking for a Lead Commercial Project Manager to join our rapidly growing team in Newcastle upon Tyne. In this role, you’ll be reporting to the Commercial Head of Operations, working with our team in managing and optimizing targeted financial results with due professional care.

How You'll Make an Impact 

•  Managing a team of Commercial Project Managers and Project Accountants with the aim of optimizing Business financial results.

• ·         Continually maintain accurate books & records and achievement of financial forecast accuracy targets (for revenue, profit and cashflow) in line with Business KPIs.
• ·         Ensure compliance with FRG requirements and RIC controls; working together with the Finance Manager, liaising with Hub Accounting and RIC.

• Responsible for delivering period / quarter / year-end financial targets in line with our budgets.
• Coordination and delivery of Project forecasts on a monthly basis; ensuring timely finalisation and approval of Project control sheets and any required accounting papers.

• ·         Periodically address GRIR / PO queries, Excess Billings & Costs and Fx Hedging topics in conjunction with our Finance Team and ensure timely closure of Projects in SAP.
• ·         Provide Tender CPM resource man-hour estimates; identify and allocate team resource to new Project Orders; provide letters of empowerment; ensure timely Order Booking (further to ORCA completion) and subsequent Order Entry Calculation.
• ·         Monitor team performance to ensure timely adherence to monthly reporting timetables and thorough population of our F&C tools (i.e. Dash. PM Impact, PMTx).

• Engage Customer, JV Partner and Subcontractor stakeholders at senior levels as required, to address and resolve escalated financial / accounting topics.
• Assist in business budget formulation, relative to Project cash, profit and revenue forecasting.
• Recruitment of additional resource as required to deliver our pipeline of Projects; providing mentoring / coaching & onboarding to new team members.
• Liaise & maintain relations with the F&C Competence Hub team (Romania) relative to UK&I Project Accountant resource and recruitment of new team members.
• Support the Senior Operational Projects Controller, Lead CCM and Finance Manager in respect of identification and ongoing management of bonds & guarantees in GREAT.
• Support the Commercial Head of Operations with line manager duties for the CPM / Project Accountant team, including Interns and CAP members; undertaking regular 1-2-1 meetings and target setting reviews.
• Identification of skills gaps and growth / development for self and team, with ongoing monitoring of progress in line with our training matrix. Ensuring team competence is maintained, aligned to the Siemens Energy Com Cert pathway.
• Work together with the SOPC to identify and maximise the use of digital solutions; ensure standardisation and consistency of financial reporting & records and development / updating of financial / accounting processes and strategies.

What You Bring

• ·         A practitioner with 5 to 10 years experience in one of these fields: Financial Controlling / Financial Accounting / Commercial Project Management / Business Administration.
• ·         Experience in project budgeting and financial management of risks/opportunities.

• Chartered Accountant or similar would be advantageous (CIMA / ACCA).
• Competent in Financial Accounting / Management.
• Competent in working collaboratively and cooperatively.
• Previous experience of managing a financial/commercial team in a major project environment.
• Passionate about personal and team ongoing development.

• ·         A competent communicator with internal and external stakeholders.
• ·         Experienced in / with international projects and intercultural teams.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical.

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