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Assistant Commercial Accountant
October 24, 2022 | Comments Off on Assistant Commercial Accountant
Location: Flexible working available, where you will be based out of our Loughton or Sheffield office with home working available and some travel to other offices and sites
Business Area: Kier Places - Capital Projects - Commercial & Finance team
Contract & hours: Full time, Monday to Friday - We may be able to offer this role as either full time or part time - please specify in your application.
Kier Places are recruiting now for an Assistant Commercial Accountant to join our Capital Projects Commercial & Finance team in Sheffield or Loughton who will support the finance team in ensuring the accurate production of financial and management information as well as supporting the local management teams. In this role you will provide front-line support to the Planned & FRA team, assisting and completing weekly and monthly reporting, including; trading performance, cost base analysis and cash conversion. You will also offer support to the Commercial and Operational functions in understanding and challenging cost base, preparing weekly cash forecasting and driving efficient profit to cash conversion, ensuring accuracy of cost, through completion of cost journals and cost report generation to support the month-end process.
Key Responsibilities
As an Assistant Commercial Accountant, you will be responsible for
- Collating weekly cash forecasts for submission to Regulated Finance
- Completing balance sheet recs for review with Finance Business Partner each period
- Understanding ageing of WIP and accruals, reviewing and agreeing actions with Finance Business Partner
- Reviewing costs (plant, materials, payroll, subcontract) and any outstanding actions relating to these costs on a weekly basis and work with the Finance Business Partner to ensure ongoing issues are escalated and resolved.
- Supporting the Finance Business Partner in the development of dashboards for the Planned & Integrated, and FRA departments.
This profile is not exhaustive. From time to time, you may be required by the company to perform other tasks, which are not included in the above description, but are within your capabilities and, where necessary, training and full support will be given.
What do we need from you?
Is this your opportunity for the taking? To be our Assistant Commercial Accountant, you will need experience in operating in Finance/Accounting role and must have the ability to use a range of IT packages including Microsoft Office and bespoke packages and accounting systems e.g. Oracle. In addition strong analytical skills and the ability to manage large volumes of data is essential, as well as having excellent communication skills, both written and verbally, with the ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines.
Sounds like you? Then please apply!
Who are we?
The Capital Projects Team have a pipeline of opportunities to deliver recladding, refurbishment & decarbonisation projects to residential buildings. You will be working on a portfolio of projects predominantly involving the recladding of high-rise buildings, with turnover of circa £45m per annum, and of a construction nature. You will be joining a newly formed team specialising in this new workstream which has huge long-term growth opportunity, in which successful applicants will have a huge opportunity to grow and develop as this new workstream evolves.
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.
You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a company car or allowance, private healthcare, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan).
Some of our other 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
- Kier's Green Car Scheme
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, as well as 4x Life Assurance as standard, with the option for Partner Life Assurance cover
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands
Make the journey. Leave a legacy. Join us today as an Assistant Commercial Accountant.
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