Accountant

July 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Accountant

Accountant - Excellence for Modern Construction (CEMC)

Steetley, Worksop

Permanent - Flexible working available

This role is to provide strong financial controls and reporting to the Europe Hub.

What will the role look like?

  • Reporting Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cashflow performance along with submitting budget / forecasts to Group
  • Analysing business performance and providing explanations for variances to budget & forecast
  • Take responsibility for balance sheet accounts, FAR & stock listings ensuring reconciliations are undertaken on a monthly basis
  • Weekly cash forecasting, driving opportunities to maximise cash and manage working capital
  • Internal review ensuring Stock and WIP is reflected accurately in the system and on reports
  • Proactively identifying and improving finance and business processes to ensure fast, accurate management information is available
  • Keeping up to date with Accounting Standards and implementing new accounting treatments where necessary
  • Understanding business risks and strategies
  • Prepare and review the supporting schedules for year end audit
  • Preparation of VAT & CIS returns
  • Two direct report - Accounts Clerks

Experience Required:

Essential:

  • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent);
  • Strong communication and influencing skills. An ability to communicate effectively at all levels and to build and maintain productive working relationships;
  • Proven experience of working in a deadline driven environment with the ability to prioritise workload;
  • Experience of developing and improving processes;
  • Strong financial and analytical skills;
  • Experience of managing budgets, forecasts and monthly reporting;
  • Excellent IT skills - particularly Excel and PowerPoint with Power BI an advantage.

Desirable:

  • Experience using SAP, COINs, Tagetik and Power BI;
  • Experience working within a large manufacturing company.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it.

Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

Diversity & Sustainability:

We value and care about difference at Laing O'Rourke and believe a diverse team drives innovation.

We are a global multicultural business committed to the inclusion of all employees, enabling everyone to feel accepted, respected & valued for being themselves.

We have set out far-reaching global sustainability targets including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women amongst our global staff by 2033.

Additional:

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, then please get in touch.