Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a diligent finance professional looking to continue their career within a FTSE listed construction business with a track record of delivering high profile infrastructure projects.
This is a critical role within the R2R function that involves collecting, processing, validating and presenting accurate financial data. Whilst also providing strategic, financial and operational feedback on the performance of the company to senior management.
The role will have responsibility for the management of the bank account ledgers for the main group companies, oversight of all Bank & cash ledgers and reporting.
As part of the R2R team, the role will also include preparation of the reconciliations for balance sheet accounts and resolving related queries and issues.
The role includes exposure to project teams and the treasury function, providing an excellent opportunity for a varied role with regular challenges. It provides the ability to work with a wide variety of teams from different functional backgrounds and the opportunity for continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
Within the team you will be a source of subject matter expertise relating to the bank and cash and provide support to the Finance Manager – O2C in a broader range of record to report controls.
You will continue to provide bank and cash information to a broad range of business unit owners supporting them to ensure timely collection of amounts owed, identifying and resolving issues arising to ensure the bank and cash ledger remains an accurate reflection of the business position.
The Primary Responsibilities Of This Role Are
- Responsibility to post all the Costain bank statements each day, ensuring all the transactions on the cashbook are accurately cleared and matched to the relevant payments made and/or received.
- Resolve queries, to ensure the cashbook ledgers for the group continue to reflect an accurate representation of the cash position.
- Assist the Finance Manager - O2C with the daily cash reporting ensuring they have the most current bank and cash information.
- Maintain balance sheet reconciliations for all bank and cash ledgers for all companies, resolving any queries arising to ensure balances are controlled and include only justifiable entries.
- Assist in driving standard processes for cash & bank through principles of simplification, standardisation, and, working with the wider teams to automate where appropriate.
- Support Ad-hoc projects including system developments where necessary
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum 5 GCSEs graded 4-9 or an equivalent graded A-C.
- AAT or equivalent experience.
Experience
- Experience in a finance role desirable
- Familiarity with Finance function day-to-day operations.
- Collaboration with stakeholders and working to their deadlines.
- Working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.
Skills
- Understands the importance of resilience in facing challenges. Adopts a positive attitude when faced with minor setbacks or changes in plans. Seeks guidance and support from supervisors or peers when encountering difficulties. Demonstrates persistence in completing tasks despite challenges. Begins to develop basic stress management techniques.
- Can prepare basic management reporting, can make basic interpretations of management information and reports and provide simple comments and insight, accurately interpret basic financial reports. Able to interrogate and explain cost entries.
- Show awareness and basic understanding of the principles of a balance sheet reconciliation, produce accurate supplier reconciliations identifying and proactively resolving reconciling items, able to articulate basic double entry accounting, understands the implications of recording entries in the balance sheet, particularly assets.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of accounting records and systems including nominal ledger coding structures. Can review ledgers to ensure accuracy.
- Remains approachable to stakeholders and can develop basic rapport with colleagues, establishing trust through impactful communication and reliability.
- Demonstrable ability to form effective working relationships with multiple stakeholders.
- Flexibility to take on new challenges as they arise and quick to learn.
Personal Attributes
- Willingness to learn from the team and how it interfaces with other disciplines.
- Actively inputs into team working sessions.
- Listens and respects the ideas and contributions of others.
- Shares relevant information with team members in a timely manner.
- Seeks help from colleagues when needed and provides assistance when asked.
- Demonstrates a positive attitude towards working with others.
About Us
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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