Company Description

United Living is a leading infrastructure, construction, and property services company in the UK. We help our customers and the communities they serve benefit from resilient infrastructure, affordable homes, and improved living spaces that are fit for the future. Our mission is to be the partner and employer of choice for designing, building, maintaining, and connecting communities and critical infrastructure, to create a more sustainable and inclusive society.

United Living Group is comprised of four complementary businesses, all dedicated to realising our vision of creating a connected, sustainable future:

Property Services – We revitalise homes and communities through the regeneration of living spaces, breathing new life into neighbourhoods. From delivering large programmes of work for social housing providers, to ensuring the highest building safety standards, we provide a range of services for public sector clients.

Infrastructure Services – Our team of infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical energy and water infrastructure, for the UK’s largest network owners and operators. The work we do supports the requirement for effective solutions to address the UK’s decarbonisation goals, and our processes minimise environmental and carbon impacts, whilst ensuring the safe and reliable operation of assets.

New Homes - As experienced and specialist new build housing contractors, we create homes and regenerate areas with communities in mind. We work collaboratively with registered partners, local authorities, and private developers to provide high quality, energy efficient, and sustainable homes for people to live and grow.

Connected - We connect people through fixed-line and wireless telecom infrastructure, ensuring seamless communication and access to information for all. At United Living, we have one of the largest specialist in-house teams for project management, acquisition, design, construction, and maintenance in the UK.

Job Description

Purpose

Working as part of the New Homes finance function in ensuring the provision of providing quality and timely management information to pillar management and the UL Group finance function.

The specific role will focus on ensuring the delivery of a reliable Management accounting service to the business to a consistently high quality, supporting all internal and external accounting and reporting requirements, ensuring all support is delivered to a high standard and in accordance to reporting timescales.

Accountability

Accountable for ensuring management information is on time, accurate and understandable. Accountable for accounts system and reporting maintenance and development.

Specific Responsibilities

Working with the FD/FC in provision of divisional management information in line with Group and pillar MD requirements (month-end reporting packs).
Bi-weekly cashflow forecasts support
Support Financial Controller in:
Assist project team QS in production & review of monthly CVR’s
Month close & journal preparation
Processing monthly contract accounting
Allocation of cost correctly to projects
Labour allocations, staff utilisation
Overhead reporting
Ensuring costing accuracy
Ensuring the correct IT set-up of new projects and employees
Budgeting and re-forecasting support
Support Tenders & Business plan when required
Ageing WIP analysis
Balance Sheet reconciliations for ULN, ULS and Partner Construction
Key involvement in development of ERP / IT systems
Documentation of support process and procedures
Assist with ensuring full VAT and CIS compliance, escalating issues as required.
Other duties as maybe directed by the pillar management team or Group Finance.Whilst this role will be predominantly pillar focussed, the finance team operates in an open and inclusive manner, tasks are shared to ensure cover for absence and processes are reviewed and improved as a team.

Essential

Interest in and experience in commercial / project accounting and management reporting.
Genuine desire to work across disciplines (Commercial, Construction & Group Finance).
Ability to work as part of a team, but also confident to operate in a sole capacity.
Finalist or Newly Qualified (ACCA, CIMA)
Accurate and numerate and highly computer literate including Advanced Excel
Excellent communication skillsDesirable

Experience operating variants of Microsoft Dynamics NAV platforms (current system E-Vision).
Knowledge of JET reporting
Relevant industry or PE experience
Experience of change management – introduction of new systems and processes