About the role
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group, delivering some of the UK’s most complex and high-profile major projects across transport, energy and the built environment. Our Major Projects Work Winning team plays a critical role in securing these opportunities by producing compelling, high-quality bid and client materials that reflect our capability, credibility and collaborative approach.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Finance Automations Developer to join our Automations team on a permanent basis. In this role you will be responsible for creating automation tools, primarily to be used within the Finance Operations department, as well as maintaining and providing support for such automation tools across the Finance function, ensuring automations produced are professional, stable, and well-supported..
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
Process Automation
- Experience in office process analysis
- Expertise with MS Office automation tools (EG: VBA and/or Power
Automate)
- Experience with Robotic, Agentic and AI-powered process automation (EG:
Power Automate)
- Experience with planning and orchestration of Robotic and/or Agentic
process flows, including workflow optimisation
- Understanding and vision of best practices within digital technology teams
- Understanding of the opportunities presented by evolving technologies
Data Automation
- Experience with financial data sets
- Expertise in data extraction and transformation (EG: SQL and/or Power
Query)
- Experience in presenting data analysis and creating reports
- Experience in Power BI report creation and maintenance
- Experience in ML-based data analysis and decision-making
- Understanding of the importance of data modelling for modern digital
solutions, especially machine learning analysis
Working Methods
- Ability to collaborate in a project-based team
- Understanding of a Lean continuous improvement project mindset
- Strong organisational skills and ability to communicate with both technical
and managerial stakeholders.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies in the automation area, and skills
needed to stay abreast of continuing developments (EG: RPA, Agentic
Orchestration)
Why work for us
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
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK18047
