Description:
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Accountant to join our growing team in Coleshill
What you'll be doing
- Following and enhancing processes to allocate costs and reduce disallowed costs
- Generation and analysis of cost reports
- Regular reporting and analysis
- Maintenance of data, e.g. employee list, asset register
- System administration Charging costs between JV partner and JV in line with contract Monitoring of overhead costs
- Reconciliations / project splits of bank transactions, VAT
- Corrections / journals (project costs and inter-company)
- Ensuring daily BACS payments are approved and cash is collected monthly
- Communicate with commercial team on deadlines, review cost accuracy and accruals
- Understand the impact on wider accounting position of JV and JV partners
Who we're looking for
- Ability to understand processes and the logic/architecture behind them, e.g. ERP
- system, group processes and coding structure
- Attention to detail to ensure accuracy of tasks and data
- Self-starter, you will be working as part of a small team but need to be tenacious in completing of your own tasks
- Using excel to analyse a large volume of data, and summarise/present costs
- accurately and clearly is essential
- Experience of Power BI to enhance the above would be desirable
- Communicate analysis of costs clearly, and be able to answer queries