Senior Financial Accountant

Senior Financial Accountant

Company: COLAS RAIL UK

Job Location:

LONDON, G

Type of

Contract:

Permanent

Posting

Start Date:

01/09/2026

At Colas Rail, differences matter. Join a team where being your authentic self is respected, encouraged, and vital to our success. At Colas Rail you'll be 'll be welcomed into an inclusive team where there's a role for every talent and a close-knit, familial culture. You will also get the opportunity to help us transform transportation, set new standards, and dare to be different.

• We value everyone as part of the same team.
• We treat everyone as equals - and everyone is approachable, from the CEO down.
• We put you in control of your career to lead and grow in any way you want.
• We have a culture of care, from safe working environments to diversity and inclusion.
• We're renowned for innovation, adopting new ideas, and daring to be different.
• We are building a more sustainable future and our projects impact infrastructure for generations.

Step into the world of Colas Rail, where a century of expertise merges with a daring spirit to shape the future of rail infrastructure.

At Colas Rail, we deliver transport solutions for sustainable mobility. We are a leading rail infrastructure business with on track plant and freight capabilities. As a subsidiary of the Colas Group, we are part of over a hundred years' experience in delivering major innovations across our sector. Every day, thousands of trains run on tracks built, designed, or maintained by Colas Rail.

Our values,
Respect, Commitment, Pioneering and Sharing are at the heart of everything we do. These values feed into our main strategies and accompany us daily in realising our ambitions.

our employees, celebrate diversity and foster a culture of safety, care and respect for everyone we interact with. We care about our employee's wellbeing and create an environment of inclusivity and support.

by showing up wholeheartedly. When we commit together, we invest in everyone's success. We invest in our customers, our teams and our colleagues, and we lead with safety, integrity, passion, purpose, ethics and transparency.

as we all hold knowledge that could and should be shared, enabling us to grow and making us a strong collective. We have a passion for excellence, celebrating achievements and nurturing talent.

to push boundaries, imagine what does not yet exist and dare to do what others do not. We innovate with ambition, and we find solutions.

Colas Rail UK is a market leader in railway construction and maintenance, with annual turnover exceeding £400m and a strong track record of profitability and cash generation. Our success is driven by the excellence of our teams across all disciplines, and we are proud of our record of developing and rewarding our teams.

The Financial Control team plays a critical role by safeguarding the integrity of the financial information which we use to make key business decisions, overseeing group and statutory reporting, managing balance sheet risk, maintaining a robust control environment, ensuring regulatory compliance, and leading on all areas of tax.

We are looking for a Senior Financial Accountant to help us take our financial control activities to the next level, presenting an excellent opportunity to join a high performance finance community with real scope to develop new processes and make a difference.

This role is based at our HQ in London Victoria and we offer hybrid working with 3 days in the office.

• Providing confidence and control over the company balance sheet by developing, embedding and communicating a suite of balance sheet reconciliations which efficiently and effectively identify risk and correct errors.
• Take overall accountability for IFRS
  16 lease accounting across the business - reviewing accounting treatments, advising divisional finance leaders on lease accounting, coordinating and monitoring lease expenditure budgets and approvals and reconciling lease balances monthly.
• Producing and analyzing quarterly group reporting packages and liaising with the Group Finance team.
• Working with the Financial Controller to produce all Colas Rail UK statutory accounts and reconciling those statutory accounts to group reporting and management accounts.
• Taking overall accountability for the timely delivery of external audits (group ad statutory) by planning Colas Rail UK's approach to the audit and coordinating stakeholders across the UK business.
• Provide technical accounting guidance on evolving standards, company law, and HMRC requirements; effectively communicated updates to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Support the management of Colas Rail UK tax affairs (corporation tax, R&D tax claims) and take direct accountability for VAT and CIS.
• Maintain strong financial controls and…