Finance Support Assistant

About The Role

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Major Projects team as a Finance Support Assistant for Net Zero Teesside (NZT) based at our site in Redcar and Cleveland, and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.

Provide professional services to project teams on site, supporting effective operational delivery, provide consistent, effective and efficient site support services in accordance with Balfour Beatty policies, and assist with timecard processing for blue collar workers to ensure accurate recording of data. What you'll be doing

• Coordinates payroll activity utilising time and attendance system, Kronos in accordance with approved procedures for blue collar workers
• Collection and subsequent maintaining of all submitted workforce operatives’ payroll forms (ie holiday forms, pay query forms, absence forms, lodge forms)
• Process plant transactions, material receipts/GRN processing, invoice query resolution
• Ensure that all transactions are posted in a timely manner
• Ensure that site support processes are consistently and rigorously applied across all projects in line with company policies including liaising with operatives for compliance
• Assist with resolution of both costing and payroll queries
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm

• Experience of performing a site admin role
• Producing and reporting project cost either on a large site or across multiple sites in a construction environment
• The ability to work with people at various levels both internally within Balfour Beatty and externally to comply with the Balfour Beatty site support procedures is essential
• This is a position of responsibility involving receipting, invoice processing, payroll and project costing
• Previous experience of timekeeper duties is desirable
• A working knowledge of Oracle (or equivalent ERP cost management module) and construction/engineering working rule agreements is desirable

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.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects including HS2, the new high-speed railway and the first nuclear power station in a generation, Hinkley Point

C. Using the latest technology, we’re driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities.

From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and…