Finance Automations Developer

About the role

Balfour Beatty's' Finance Operations' Automations team are recruiting for a junior developer, a role that involves building reports and automating digital processes. We are looking for applicants with an analytic mindset, who can identify problems and put forward solutions. In particular, we appreciate applicants with a strong background in finance operations, accounting services, or similar functions - an understanding of a range of existing processes and how they tick.

As a FA Developer, you will spend a lot of time working in Excel and should have a solid understanding of its core features. You will also be introduced to Power platform apps, including Power BI and Power Automate, and if needed will be trained in how to use these to automate the processes of other Operations teams, especially the movement of data and reporting that keeps the whole Finance function working. Opportunities are also available to advance your training through apprenticeships in Data and emerging technologies like AI for Business.

What you'll be doing

New Process Automations

• Use digital technology to automate office tasks within the Finance function. This
  is accomplished with the full suite of existent and emerging digital technologies,
  e.g. cloud computing, machine learning, digital robots and AI/copilot-enabled
  programming.


• Work with the Finance Transformation team, and the Finance Automations
  Product Manager, to ensure that automations are built to a common standard
  and that relevant documentation is filled out to a professional standard.


• Collaborate with end users to ensure that automations created for usage by
  other teams present a good user experience, including meaningful error
  messages and a comprehensible user guide.


• Where the responsibility for automated tasks needs to rest within the
  Automations team, ensure that timelines are clearly laid out and understood.

Automation Maintenance

• Support the business by providing support for existing automations built by the
  Automations team, including bug fixing, troubleshooting, configuration and re-
  training.


• Work with the Finance Automations Product Manager to carry out periodic
  reviews of previously created automations, updating and/or archiving tools
  appropriately when they are no longer fit for purpose.

Centralised Process Automations (Including Robotic and AI-Agentic
Automations)

• Where automations are complex and/or time-sensitive enough that they must
  be operated by the Automations team, ensure the timely and consistent delivery
  of such.


• Continue to drive "true" automation by converting manually triggered
  automation tools into robotically automated processes and/or data pipelines.


• Work with the IT Data Department to convert existing automations for data
  transfer into proper data pipelines, making data tables available through the
  Data Lake.


• Create and maintain live reports for key metrics using Power BI, to replace
  Excel-based reports currently being produced both within the team and by
  managers across Finance

Who we're looking for

Essential -

• Experience in Data visualisation


• Experience in Data for accounting services


• Experience in Finance operations processes


• Experience in AI for automated processes


• Experience in Requirements gathering


• Analytic thinking


• Curiosity


• Independent working


• Strong digital literacy

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.


• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)


• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave


• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We're making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we've got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

We're looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com