Assistant Accountant upon Tyne

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. To provide assistance to the Finance and Reporting function in the reporting of performance, preparing financial statements and accounts, budgeting and managing ledgers.

• 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
• Processing of 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
• Calculation and allocation of shared costs across projects and overhead cost centres maintaining an audit trail of the end to end process to support cost recovery on projects.
• Costing of 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 through Sharepoint
• Day to day management of 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 Sub Contract module accounting and liaise with IT to test and correct. Liaise with Subcontract team to resolve aged items and CIS balances.
• Processing and reconciliation of Plant & Fleet revenue journals
• Costing of internal Plant & Fleet costs to projects and overhead cost centres
• Produce analysis where requested by the Op Co
• Risk mitigation
• Providing support to internal and external customers
• Work collaboratively as a member of the AS Team to ensure the flawless execution of the AS strategic and operational objectives for own area of responsibility
• Ensure that you provide exceptional service to internal and external customers
• Ensure areas which could potentially adversely affect the business are expediently highlighted to management

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

• Part qualified (AAT)
• Graduate calibre
• Understanding of Financial accounting and compliance systems and related legislation
• Understanding of statutory and regulatory Financial accounting and compliance requirements across the business function
• Knowledge of best practice thinking in Financial accounting and compliance accounting processes and Shared Services
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• The ability to challenge controls and performance
• Excellent working knowledge of multicurrency ERP system (preferably Oracle). Intermediate / advanced Ms Excel, Ms Power Point and Ms Word
• Experience of operating in large-scale complex organisations with diverse stakeholder community
• Good understanding of industry and working in a multiple Operating Company environment
• Strong change management experience
• Awareness of the developments in the Financial Reporting Standards (FRS) and the ability to incorporate them into the team's working practices

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40%…