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Finance Assistant
September 7, 2022 | Comments Off on Finance Assistant
Location: Edmonton, North London
Business Area: Highways
Contract/Hours: Permanent, Full time
Salary: £26K-30K + Pension + Benefits
At Kier, we are Collaborative, Trusted and Focused, with Safety at the heart of everything we do.
We are currently looking for a Finance Assistant to join our Highways team in Edmonton to accurately capture costs, aid, procurement and prepare monthly management accounts and information to support decision making, process improvement and drive contract efficiencies.
Key Responsibilities
In this exciting Finance Assistant role, you're support the contract management team in driving contract efficiencies and maintain accurate cost capture to aid financial reporting and supporting business decision making. You'll also ensure appropriate systems of internal control are maintained and development of an adherence to company procedures. Part of this role is to support the contract management team in the production of monthly management accounts and the other financial information to Kier Highways deadlines. You'll be also responsible for raising purchase orders, entering good receipts, monitoring registered invoice control and resolving invoice queries. In addition, you'll distribute cost and workflow reports and working with contracts team to ensure processes are adhered to such that these reports are a true reflection of current performance.
What do we need from you?
- Qualification such as AAT, CIMA, ACCA or ACA
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Excel and Computerised Accounting Systems, Causeway experience desirable
- Excellent communicator both verbal and written and a willing contributor within meetings.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines, with accurate outputs
- Exercises sound judgement adding value through challenge where appropriate.
- Desire to progress through personal drive and commitment to the delivery of results.
- Demonstrates analytical, creative and proactive thinking as well as problem solving.
- Technically competent and well versed in financial disciplines
- Ideally has experience in either the construction, highways maintenance or utilities industries.
At Kier, we're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our benefits include: - New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer
- A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave
- A fantastic, matched pension scheme
- Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans.
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- Kier's Green Car Scheme
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
- And many, many more!
Find out more here about the great rewards and benefits we offer our employees.
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Visit our website to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk.
Closing Date: 5th October 2022
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
Recruitment agencies - we are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. The recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL should we require assistance. For further information, visit our careers help page.
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