3 Finance Transformation Partner roles in Newcastle upon Tyne

You'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of finance at Balfour Beatty. Working closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, Technology and the wider business, you'll lead key transformation initiatives that drive efficiency, innovation and lasting change.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading finance workstreams and helping to deliver major transformation and change programmes across the business.


• Ensuring finance requirements are embedded into solutions, delivering outcomes that support both business needs and strategic objectives.


• Partnering with stakeholders to shape future finance processes, contributing to strategic planning, investment decisions and implementation activities.


• Building strong relationships across Finance and wider business functions to identify opportunities for improvement and drive meaningful change.


• Championing long-term thinking and helping to enhance team performance, capability and effectiveness.


• Managing the idea intake and triage process, ensuring initiatives are prioritised appropriately and governance requirements are met.


• Driving the adoption of automation, digital tools, AI and robotic process automation (RPA) to improve finance operations.


• Identifying process inefficiencies and delivering improvements across key finance activities, including month-end close and balance sheet controls.


• Gathering, analysing and documenting business requirements to support successful project delivery.


• Supporting benefit tracking, baselining activities and ensuring transformation initiatives deliver measurable value.


• Leading stakeholder engagement activities and developing effective communication strategies that support successful change adoption.


• Helping to build a culture that embraces continuous improvement, innovation and new ways of working.


• Simplifying complex information and acting as an advocate for transformation at all levels of the organisation.


• Creating a collaborative environment where teams can thrive, barriers are removed, and shared success is achieved.

We're looking for a proactive and solutions-focused individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about driving positive change. Whether your experience comes from finance transformation, process improvement or broader business change initiatives, you'll be excited by the opportunity to help shape the future of finance at Balfour Beatty.

You'll bring:

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence at all levels.


• A collaborative approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities while working effectively across teams.


• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for identifying opportunities for improvement.


• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, ensuring high-quality delivery in a complex environment.


• A willingness to learn, adapt and embrace new technologies, systems and ways of working.


• Experience supporting or delivering finance transformation, process improvement or systems implementation projects.


• An understanding of project management principles and methodologies.


• Strong Microsoft Excel skills and confidence using a range of business systems and digital tools.


• A curious mindset with a passion for innovation, continuous improvement and challenging the status quo.


• An awareness of digital technologies, automation, AI and robotics within finance, which would be advantageous.


• A recognised finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) is desirable but not essential.


• Experience working within a finance or business support environment, with an understanding of core finance processes such as Record to Report (R2R), Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (O2C), would be beneficial.