Finance Automations Developer

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

• 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…

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., 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.