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Assistant Accountant
May 23, 2023 | Comments Off on Assistant Accountant
Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.
Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire
Contract: Full time, part time and flexible
Salary: £competitive + Pension + Benefits
Responsibilities
As Assistant Accountant, you'll be working within the business services team, supporting them in the financial administration of highways maintenance contracts including cost capture and procurement and ensuring compliance with parent company financial procedures and all aspects of commercial and financial performance.
Your day to day will include:
- Supporting the contract finance team in the production of monthly management accounts, providing high quality accounts reconciliations to support monthly management accounts.
- Making of monthly balance sheet reconciliations, aiding with audit queries internally and externally
- Generating key monthly management reporting information, accurate cost reconciliations for people & plant, liaising with other contracts on inter-company balances and invoicing
- Helping the contract management team in driving contract efficiencies, assisting in arranging management accounts through to trial balance for the contract(s), maintenance of accounting system via journal entries and monthly accruals
- Preparing key data for monthly client application for payment (including associated reconciliations), also supporting the commercial team with completion of monthly cost value reconciliations (CVR's)
This role of Assistant Accountant is great for you if you can:
- Demonstrate a good understanding of Microsoft Excel and computerised accounting systems
- Work to tight deadlines, with accurate outputs
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.
Benefits 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 favourites include:
- New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans
- Kier's Green Car Scheme
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
Who is Kier?
We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: kier.co.uk/sustainability/
At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.
You can see more about our D&I action plan here: kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf
Closing date: 19 June 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.