Corporate Accountant

Volker Rail is a leading multidisciplinary railway infrastructure contractor which comprises of two businesses:
Major Projects and Specialist Businesses.

Major Projects is an expert in collaborative working, leading on large, multidisciplinary joint venture and alliance projects.

Specialist Businesses is made up of expert divisions in signalling, track, power, electrification, and piling, and has an in-house plant division and bespoke design teams.

Our Head office is based in J3 Business Park, Doncaster and provides support to the businesses in the following areas:
Finance and Payroll, Human Resources, HSQES, Work Winning, Procurement and Fleet.

We are proud of our reputation as a high-performing business, working in harmony and partnership with our stakeholders, ensuring we help our clients deliver a rail network for the future.

We are recruiting for a motivated and detail-oriented Corporate Accountant to join our Finance team in Doncaster. This is an excellent opportunity for a newly or part-qualified accountant looking to develop their career within a dynamic business, gaining exposure to corporate reporting, taxation, statutory compliance and group accounting.

About our role

As Corporate Accountant, you will play a key role in supporting the Corporate Finance team, ensuring accurate financial reporting, maintaining robust financial controls and delivering high-quality management information to senior stakeholders across the business and our parent company.

Key responsibilities will include:

Supporting the Corporate Finance team across a broad range of accounting activities.
Preparing and posting journals, including Work in Progress, reserves and other balance sheet adjustments.
Reconciling accounts and ensuring the integrity of financial information.
Producing divisional and company performance reporting, consolidated management accounts and forecasting information.
Ensuring trial balances reconcile accurately to consolidated management accounts.
Supporting group reporting requirements and submissions to our parent company in the Netherlands.
Preparing monthly and ad hoc reports for senior management.
Taking responsibility for corporation tax analysis, quarterly and annual submissions, and associated accounting entries.
Maintaining strong financial controls across key balance sheet accounts, including VAT, Corporation Tax, Deferred Tax, Duty and Research & Development accounts.
Assisting with internal and external audits and providing supporting documentation and analysis.
Supporting wider tax and finance projects as required.

About you

We're looking for someone who combines strong technical accounting knowledge with a proactive and collaborative approach.

You'll ideally have:

Essential

ACA, ACCA or equivalent qualification (ideally newly or part-qualified and actively studying).
Demonstrable experience within practice or a corporate finance environment.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
The ability to build effective working relationships across the business.
A willingness to learn, develop and take ownership of responsibilities.

Desirable

Experience using COINS ERP systems.
Exposure to corporate tax, statutory reporting or group reporting environments.

If your past experience doesn't match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.

Why work with us?

Volker Rail is under the umbrella of Volker Wessels UK which is a multidisciplinary contractor that delivers innovative engineering solutions across the civil engineering and construction sectors including rail, highways, airport, marine, energy, water, and environmental…