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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates exceptional Excel and financial modeling skills, with a strong focus on importing, cleaning, and validating data from multiple sources. Proficient in management accounting, including P&Ls, cost allocation, and financial controls, while effectively collaborating with Finance and Operations teams.
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Excel Financial ModellingData Importing And ValidationManagement Accounting KnowledgeSage Intacct ExperienceFinancial Controls Design
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Hard Skills
Financial ModellingData MappingCost AllocationVariance ReportingReconciliation Design
Soft Skills
Collaborative Problem SolvingConstructive Challenge
Tools & Technologies
Microsoft CopilotExcel FunctionalitySage Intacct
Industry Keywords
Professional ServicesContract-Based BusinessFTE Management
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Assess and document PoloWorks’ existing financial model, including source data, dependencies, allocation logic, outputs and control weaknesses
- Agree the target design and migration approach with Corporate Finance, the GL team, Operations and relevant system owners
- Rebuild and roll forward the Excel model using transparent, maintainable structures
- Establish controlled mappings for employees, contracts, Statements of Work, clients and reporting classifications
- Diagnose and correct broken references, formula errors and data-quality issues
- Establish a repeatable process to extract and load actual time allocations from Sage Intacct timesheets
- Allocate staff costs to contracts and SOWs using approved timesheet data and an agreed methodology
- Load actual costs from the general ledger and supporting schedules, reconciling source and allocated costs
- Maintain treatment of direct and indirect costs, non-project time, overheads, new business, starters, leavers and contractors
- Operate validation and exception controls for missing data, invalid mappings, duplicate records and cost omissions or duplication
- Prepare baseline estimates for future quarters using historical actual allocations
- Provide controlled inputs for Senior Finance Business Partners to refine future allocations
- Maintain forecast logic based on approved allocations, staffing assumptions and cost schedules
- Load and cost signed-off vacancies and approved additional FTE roles
- Import and validate approved schedules from the GL team and Senior Finance Business Partners
- Produce contract- and SOW-level P&Ls covering revenue, allocated costs, bonus, gross margin, margin percentages and FTE
- Maintain actual, budget and forecast reporting by client, division, vertical and sub-vertical
- Produce variance and exception reporting for Senior Finance Business Partners
- Maintain reconciliations to the general ledger, timesheet data and supporting schedules
- Document calculation logic, data sources, assumptions, mappings and operating procedures
- Maintain version control, change logs, testing evidence and approval of material changes
- Train Senior Finance Business Partners to use controlled inputs and outputs and provide cross-training
- Protect confidential employee, salary and commercial information
- Use Microsoft Copilot and other approved AI tools for model development, review, testing, documentation and process improvement, independently validating outputs
- Use Excel functionality and approved tools to create repeatable data-import, mapping, validation and reporting processes
Requirements
What you’ll need- Exceptional Excel and financial modelling skills, with evidence of rebuilding and maintaining complex financial models
- Strong experience of importing, combining, cleaning, mapping and validating data from multiple sources within robust Excel models
- Practical Microsoft Copilot or comparable approved AI experience, including independent validation of outputs
- Strong management accounting knowledge, including P&Ls, GL structures, staff costs, FTE, cost allocation, budgets and forecasts
- Experience designing reconciliations, financial controls and useful exception reporting
- Ability to work collaboratively with Finance, Operations and system owners and challenge unclear requirements constructively
- Sage Intacct experience, particularly timesheet, project or dimensional data (desirable)
- Experience in a staff-intensive professional services or contract-based business (desirable)
- Experience taking a finance model rebuild through design, testing, implementation, parallel run and handover (desirable)
- Demonstrates behaviours aligned to the PoloWorks PRIDE values
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive salary
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Minimum 26 days of annual leave, with the option to buy more
- Flexible, hybrid working
- Private health insurance
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Occupational maternity and paternity pay
- Company volunteering days
- Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing scheme
- Employee assistance programme with retail discounts and savings
- Generous employee referral scheme
- Regular sports and social events
- Free Cheltenham bus travel