Business Unit Controller - UK

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Partner with and support leadership in understanding their business through effective challenge and by providing insightful and accurate management information that will help improve business performance as well as accuracy of reporting. Provide effective financial management & control for the Sector/ Business unit.

The BU Controller reports directly to the BA Controller and has a dotted reporting line to the BU/Sector Director

Role accountabilities:

Act as a business partner to support the BU Director and BA Controller for decision making: 

• Be a forward-looking, proactive Finance partner providing insightful advice and challenge to the business in all areas of performance


• Lead the development and completion of the financial plans and forecasts.


• Track and report the financial performance of the Sector/BU in country ensuring integrity is maintained in all governance and compliance areas.


• Provide insightful analysis on business performance and trends with a forward-looking lens and driving action as required across the business. 


• Drive Working Capital performance to exceed targets.


• Be a champion for change.

Lead the Sector/BU Finance function in country: 

• Report financial KPIs, project and P&L performance management reporting and analysis (profitability, net working capital and cashflow) accurately and transparently, enabling effective decision making for Project Managers and Functional Management.


• Coordinate the BU budget, develop outlook & forecast capabilities and develop mitigation plan to support target achievements.


• Lead and develop the BU finance team to deliver value adding services.


• Ensure a high level of collaboration and coordination is maintained with the other BU Controllers and the In Country Accounting lead to ensure consistency in service delivery and compliance including meeting all the financial statutory obligations of the country.

Interact with global finance team:

• Contribute to the global Finance strategy with active involvement in the advancement of standardized, centralized and automated process across the entire function.


• Roll out in the country-BA the processes and methods designed centrally.


• Ensure standardization within the GBA and with other GBA’s avoiding customization of systems and processes.


• Ensure maximum use of and alignment to all the GSSC Finance teams (eg. AP, AR, Accounting, Project accounting) · Ensure a high level of collaboration is maintained with the wider GBA Finance team including other

Qualifications & Experience:

• The candidate should have a relevant bachelor or master's degree and at least 5+ years of experience as a senior finance leader with broad experience in finance management and reporting in a global setting. 


• The candidate should be fluent in English. 


• Further the candidate should have proven experience as strong business partner with excellent understanding of client needs combined with a thorough knowledge of project business and driving finance transformation and/or operational excellence processes (including leading, motivating and developing remote finance teams). 


• Excel and Oracle ERP to a medium proficiency preferred and attention to detail and consistent high standards.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.