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Senior Finance Assurance Consultant
Job Posted: 13 hours ago
Salary: £ 44 - 44 / Hour
Job Type: Contract
Location: Peterborough
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Finance Assurance Consultant | Peterborough, Cambridgeshire | £30 ph Inside IR35 | 3 months initially
Location: Peterborough
Salary: £44 per hour
Contract Type: 3 months initially
Travel Requirement: UK-wide and occasional international travel
About the Organisation
My client is a leading professional services firm supporting high-profile public and private sector infrastructure projects across the UK and internationally. Their Commercial Assurance team plays a vital role in helping clients make informed financial decisions by delivering robust, insightful cost and commercial assurance services.
About the Role
As a Senior Finance Assurance Consultant, you’ll deliver end-to-end commercial assurance services across complex infrastructure projects. Working closely with clients, contractors, and internal stakeholders, you’ll provide detailed cost analysis, governance reviews, and financial insight that drive strategic decision-making.
You will lead key commissions, evaluate cost data and commercial processes, and present your findings clearly to clients. With a combination of forensic attention to detail and the ability to understand and explain the bigger picture, you’ll bring clarity, rigour and value to every engagement.
This is a hybrid role based out of Peterborough. Travel to client sites across the UK (and occasionally overseas) will be required.
The ideal candidate will be highly proficient in SAP and have experience within water sector/industry and have a confident, collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement
Key Responsibilities
Deliver commercial assurance and cost verification services across major infrastructure projects
Analyse and interpret high volumes of cost and financial data from various systems (including SAP)
Evaluate cost structures and compare them to contractual frameworks (e.g. NEC3, NEC4)
Identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities in commercial processes
Conduct payroll audits, data sampling, and cost substantiation reviews
Prepare and present clear, insightful client-facing reports
Lead meetings and presentations with senior client stakeholders and supply chain partners
Mentor and support junior colleagues across multiple engagements
Contribute to client relationship development and the identification of new business opportunities
What We're Looking For
Proficiency in SAP, including creating POs, GRNs, setting up projects, and budget maintenance
Strong Excel skills – confident in handling data via pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and data consolidation
Experience within the Water industry/Sector
Strong experience delivering cost/commercial assurance or financial audit services
Good working knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 contracts, particularly ECC and PSC
Skilled in working with large datasets in Excel and finance systems (e.g. SAP)
Ability to extract, analyse and interpret data to provide meaningful insights
Confident communicator with excellent presentation and stakeholder management skills
Comfortable working autonomously and adapting to changing client needs
Experience working within client-side organisations or through secondments (desirable)
Degree qualified in a relevant discipline
Professional qualifications (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, RICS) are an advantage
Eligible or able to obtain security clearance (desired)
Location: Peterborough - Must be able to travel to the Peterborough office up to 3 times per week
Pay rate: £44 per hour (Inside IR35
Immediate start required.
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