Assistant Accountant in Birmingham

Location: Birmingham
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: Balfour Beatty
Job Hours: Full-time

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About the role

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

    • Why work for us

    Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing, and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies, and communities rely on.

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