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June 19, 2019 | Comments Off on Assistant Commercial Accountant
Title: Assistant Commercial Accountant Salary and benefits: Competitive Salary, Pension Matched to 7.5%, two Share Scheme options, 26 days Annual Leave, Discounts at over 800 retailers.
Location: Falkirk
Business area: Utilities - Scotia Gas and Scottish Water Frameworks
Closing date for applications 03/07/2019 Introduction: This is an exciting opportunity for a customer-centric Assistant Commercial Accountant within Kier Utilities, to work on the Scotia Gas and Scottish Water Frameworks.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage invoicing for Scottish Water, highlighting unpaid balances and escalating as required
Monitor SGN cash and WIP, highlighting key issues and escalating as required
Collate weekly cash forecasts for submission to Regulated Finance
Complete balance sheet recs for review with Commercial Accountant each period
Understand ageing of accruals, reviewing and agreeing actions with Commercial Accountant
Review costs (plant, materials, payroll) and any outstanding actions relating to these costs on a weekly basis and work with the Commercial Accountant to ensure ongoing issues are escalated and resolved.
Support the Commercial Accountant in the development of dashboards for Gas and Water to provide ongoing understanding of performance against KPIs.
Key Deliverables: Cash Scottish Water
Send invoices to SW within 24 hours of certificate being received, and upload to ECM (peak activity in weeks 2&3)
Keep master invoice file up-to-date with SW PO information, payments received, reconcile to Aged Debtors report and chase SW for payment when appropriate.
Collate weekly cash forecast for review with Commercial Accountant (weekly)
Update weekly cash conversion report with any new invoicing or payment information for review with Commercial Accountant (weekly)
Scotia Gas
Provide weekly report on WIP including ageing of overdue claims in CIPs and reconciliation between CIPS and IMS for review with Commercial Accountant (weekly)
Collate weekly cash forecast for review with Commercial Accountant (weekly)
Process monitoring Both Contracts
Update admin KPI tracker and review with Commercial Accountant (weekly)
Review the following reports highlighting key issues that need to be escalated and resolved - Invoice Query, Plant Tracking and Exception Report, P-Card outstanding actions, Purchasing Governance Reports.
Monitor weekly value of plant by team and highlight any movement or change in trend.
Cost Control and Allocation Scottish Water
Review cost allocation by gang and highlight any potential miscoding (weekly)
Scotia Gas
Run IMS report on hours by job by team and provide coding to Reg Finance to allow correct posting of weekly payroll. (weekly)
Use job by team information to reallocate plant to correct job and post journal (weekly)
Period End / Core Finance
P-Card reconciliation to be completed along with posting to CPA and CFA and accrual calculation to be included in contract CVR (monthly)
Review accruals where GRN date is greater than 4 months old and no invoice received and delete if appropriate
Review plant in ECM versus CPA ensuring both systems in line and taking action to correct where appropriate
Skills and Experience:
Excellent excel skills - pivot tables, lookups
Analytical, inquisitive
Ability to work in a team or independently
Excellent communication skills
Experience of working in finance preferably in a contract environment
Accounting experience - ideally studying towards an accountancy qualification
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