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Assistant Accountant
November 24, 2017 | Comments Off on Assistant Accountant
Salary and benefits: Competitive salary plus package, including matched pension up to 7.5%, 2x share options, numerous retail rewards and discounts and up to 10% off Kier homes
Location: Within 1 hours' commute of Trafford Park, Manchester
The opportunity:
Kier Northern is looking to recruit an Assistant Accountant to be based from our office in Manchester. Reporting into the Management Accountant, the Assistant Accountant will be responsible for reporting within a division comprising of circa £500m of revenues. A strong working relationship will be required with the Commercial and Assistant Accountants across the division as well as Group Services including Group Finance; Tax and Internal Audit., the successful post-holder will be responsible for assisting the surveying team to provide commercial expertise by working within robust procedures.
Responsibilities:
- Give support and guidance to the Bank and Cash Team in the FSSC as necessary
- Costing of managed invoices (e.g. telephone, hotel expenses)
- Ensure all management information is reported in a timely and accurate manner
- Maintain clear and precise records to ensure an adequate audit trail
- Liaison with customers both internal and external
- Provide support to the Central Finance Team as necessary
- Support to the business by assisting with ad-hoc queries and investigative work
- Continuous improvements to systems and processes in place to ensure best practice
- Optimum effectiveness and efficiency
Individual:
- Excellent IT skills, particularly excel
- ORACLE experience preferred although not mandatory
- Attention to detail
- Good Communicator
- Team Worker
- Persistence and tenacity
- Adaptable to change
- Desire to develop finance skills and train (AAT/ACCA/CIMA or similar)
About us:
Kier Group is a leading construction, property, residential and services group which invests in, builds, maintains and renews the places where we work, live and play. We operate globally across a range of sectors including defence, education, health, housing, industrials, power, transport and utilities. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, we are a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
With a network of 88 UK offices Kier offers national coverage across all of its core activities. Employing 25,000 people, Kier has the financial strength and technical expertise to undertake some of the most significant construction, civil engineering and service contracts in the country.
Kier is an equality and diversity employer