Ready to grow in finance? Be part of Buro Happold’s Global Finance Shared Services team.
This person can be based in our Bath office on a hybrid working model.
At Buro Happold, we’re united by a shared purpose: to create a better, more sustainable world. Behind every great project is a strong finance function, and we’re now looking for a Finance Assistant to join our Finance Shared Services (FSS) team in Bath.
This is an exciting opportunity to build your finance career within a newly established global shared services function, supporting our Future Finance Strategy and long‑term business plan. You’ll play a key role in delivering high‑quality financial operations while gaining exposure to transformation initiatives and global collaboration.
About The Role
The Finance Assistant role sits within the Record to Report (RTR) team, part of our wider Global Finance Shared Services. You’ll support finance teams across our global regions (UK, Europe, India, Middle East and US), working closely with colleagues in the UK and our offshore team in the Philippines.
This is a dynamic, varied role with a strong operational foundation, offering excellent opportunities to learn, develop and grow within finance.
Key Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):
- Processing monthly intercompany invoices (project and non‑project, receivable and payable).
- Posting daily cash receipts against sales invoices.
- Completing balance sheet reconciliations.
- Posting ad‑hoc bank transactions and supporting group bank reconciliations.
- Supporting month‑end close activities, including foreign currency revaluations and journals.
- Managing and documenting finance processes to ensure consistency and quality.
- Supporting timesheet movement processes handled by the offshore FSS team.
- Providing cover for Global Accounts Payable activities when required.
- Lead the end-to-end production of management accounts and ensure accurate reporting of project revenue and costs.
What We Are Looking For:
- A confident and engaging communicator.
- A team player who thrives in a fast‑paced, high‑volume environment.
- Highly organised, detail‑focused and numerate.
- Motivated, flexible and eager to learn new processes.
- Comfortable using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
Experience:
- Previous experience in a finance or accounting environment (e.g. Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, or General Accounting).
Qualifications:
- GCSE Maths and English at grade B / 5–6 or above.
- Studying towards, or keen to undertake, AAT training (desirable).
Why Join Buro Happold?
At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference
What we offer you
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world's most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Attractive salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements
- Generous company pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies
- A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities
- An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme
- A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from exceptional.
Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.
A place for everyone
Technology is the beating heart of our work and intrinsic to our culture. We innovate. We think smart. We use digital solutions to constantly push forward. Employees choose to join Buro Happold because technology enables them to ‘be their best self’, multiplied but never replaced. This is how we are spearheading the digital transformation of the built environment. We are therefore looking for candidates with a digital mindset who embrace new technologies with ease and enthusiasm.
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.