Finance Analyst

About the Role

Looking for a finance role where your insights can drive real-world impact—and where you can grow within a project built to last? As a Finance Analyst at Connect Plus Services (CPS), you’ll be joining a high-performing team supporting the operation and improvement of the M25, one of the UK’s most vital infrastructure networks.

With 15 years of work remaining on this nationally significant joint venture, this role offers not only a meaningful challenge but also long-term career stability and development. Based in Leatherhead or South Mimms, you’ll play a key part in delivering accurate reporting, supporting strategic transformation, and enabling data-driven decisions across the business.

This is more than just a numbers role—you’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders, translate complex data into clear insights, and contribute to projects that keep the country connected. Whether you’re early in your finance career or looking to expand your analytical impact, this role offers challenge, variety, and growth in equal measure.

 

 

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Finance Analyst, you’ll be more than a number cruncher—you’ll be a key enabler of insight, efficiency, and transformation across one of the UK’s most impactful infrastructure projects. Your work will help guide strategic decisions, drive performance, and support a collaborative finance function that’s future-focused.

In this exciting and varied role, you will:

• Design and maintain intuitive Power BI dashboards and reports, turning data into actionable insight

• Partner with Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to simplify reporting and enhance decision-making processes

• Contribute to finance transformation initiatives, identifying smarter ways to work across the team

• Prepare monthly results packs that deliver clear value to internal stakeholders

• Lead financial support for Enabling Functions, offering tailored analysis and budget oversight

• Assist with budgeting and forecasting, ensuring accuracy and alignment with business needs

• Own cash reporting and forecasting, supporting strong financial control

• Collaborate with operational teams to report on and improve plant performance

• Provide ad-hoc analysis, helping teams across the business respond quickly to evolving priorities

This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your finance expertise in a role that combines analytical rigour with real-world purpose—on a long-term project where your work truly matters.

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We’re looking for a curious, motivated, and collaborative analyst ready to grow their impact in a forward-thinking finance team. You’ll bring:

• 0–1 years post-qualification experience (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent)

• Confidence in Power BI, Power Query, and advanced Excel

• A strong analytical mindset and keen attention to detail

• Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a team-first approach

 

 

Behavioural Competencies 

Inspiring: Champions curiosity and continuous improvement, role modelling change and managing risks to achieve project outcomes.  

Energising:  Role models positive and energised project focussed attitudes towards   and continuous improvement. 

Challenging: seeks and advocates improvements to add value and drive continuous performance.  

Challengeable: Encourage a culture of skilled challenging and seek to understand and explore challenge to enable improvement. 

Influencing: Builds commitment and consensus, and role models CPS leadership behaviours to deliver our goals. 

Why Work for Us?

At Connect Plus Services (CPS), you’ll be part of a world-class team maintaining and operating the M25, Europe’s busiest motorway. As a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis, we play a vital role in keeping millions of journeys moving safely and efficiently.

A Career Like No Other

Working on the M25 offers unrivalled experience, challenges, and opportunities that no other highways project can provide. You’ll be exposed to cutting-edge technology, large-scale infrastructure, and complex engineering solutions, making every day dynamic and rewarding.

Long-Term Stability & Growth

With 15+ years remaining on this project, we offer career stability, professional development, and progression opportunities. Whether you’re looking to build new skills or take the next step in your career, we invest in your growth.

A Supportive & Inclusive Team

At CPS, your contributions matter. We foster a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative work environment where safety, innovation, and teamwork drive everything we do.

 

About us

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:  https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

Note to all internal CPS employees:

If you are interested in applying, please submit your application through your parent company’s careers portal by entering the job title in the search bar. If your employing company is not advertising this role, please submit your CV and the role title to recruitment@connectplusm25.co.uk