About The Role
Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join Balfour Beatty as an Assistant Accountant in Newcastle upon Tyne and build something to be proud of.
We will provide assistance to the Finance and Reporting function in the reporting of performance, preparing financial statements and accounts, budgeting, and managing ledgers.
What Youll Be Doing
* Responsible for month end balance sheet subledger reconciliations and reporting in R12 and Blackline, investigating and resolving reconciling differences.
* Produce monthly reconciliation reports by business region and respond to queries from SBU’s.
* Process BMC journal entry requests from all CSUK SBU’s accurately and within agreed timelines and approvals.
* Produce and distribute KPI reporting on journal volumes.
* Distribute monthly journal logs and obtain review approval from FD’s.
* Maintain and continually look to improve standard journal template and controls.
* Complete project sets in R12, liaising with SBU’s and site support as required to ensure right first‑time project creation.
* Maintain new Project Organisations in R12.
* Calculate and allocate shared costs across projects and overhead cost centres, maintaining an audit trail of the end‑to‑end process to support cost recovery on projects.
* Cost payroll to projects in line with timesheet data and HR data.
* Support payroll cost queries from site/client audits.
* Produce KPI data and reminder emails on timesheet completion.
* Circulate reporting of potential inconsistencies in employee HR record costing set up and coordinate R12 HR record updates as required with Employee Services.
* Produce payroll and costing data reporting by SBU and share securely via Sharepoint.
* Manage day‑to‑day fixed asset accounting, including additions, disposals and all associated reporting.
* Complete monthly recharge of depreciation to projects.
* Produce KPI reporting on aged PO accruals and circulate to SBU’s and site support.
* Complete PO write‑off process in line with agreed parameters.
* Identify issues within SubContract module accounting and liaise with IT to test and correct. Liaise with Subcontract team to resolve aged items and CIS balances.
* Process and reconcile Plant & Fleet revenue journals.
* Cost internal Plant & Fleet costs to projects and overhead cost centres.
* Produce analysis when requested by the OpCo.
* Support risk mitigation.
* Provide support to internal and external customers.
* Work collaboratively as a member of the AS Team to ensure flawless execution of the AS strategic and operational objectives for your area of responsibility.
* Ensure exceptional service to internal and external customers.
* Highlight areas that could potentially adversely affect the business to management expediently.
Who Were Looking For
* Partly qualified (AAT) or graduate calibre.
* Understanding of financial accounting, compliance systems, and related legislation.
* Knowledge of statutory and regulatory financial accounting across the business.
* Experience of best‑practice thinking in financial accounting and compliance processes and Shared Services.
* Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills.
* Ability to challenge controls and performance.
* Excellent working knowledge of a multi‑currency ERP system (preferably Oracle).
* Intermediate or advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
* Experience operating in large‑scale complex organisations with diverse stakeholder communities.
* Good understanding of industry and working in a multiple Operating Company environment.
* Strong change‑management experience.
* Awareness of developments in Financial Reporting Standards (FRS) and ability to incorporate them into the team’s working practices.
Benefits
* Smart working with flexible start and finish times and up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro‑rata).
* Family‑friendly policies: 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.
Equal Opportunity
Balfour Beatty is an equal‑opportunity employer. We safeguard all candidates and employees against discrimination or harassment based on race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
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