Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our Highways team as a Finance Assistant on the Connect Plus Services project and you can build something to be proud of!
The main purpose of the role is to support the Cost Assurance Manager to control effectively and efficiently all the transactional processes of the finance department. This will require working with the finance team and wider business to ensure the overall control of accounting systems to the satisfaction of the Finance Director.
What you'll be doing
- Ensuring that effective and efficient processing systems are operated within finance.
- Liaise with finance teams within parent companies to ensure timely and accurate payment of invoices.
- Support the monthly timesheet process ensuring that all timesheets are processed timely and accurately.
- Support the management and control of JV partner expenses.
- Prepare relevant reports to the business as required.
- Work with wider finance team to ensure that effective and efficient control mechanisms are maintained within the ledgers at all times.
- Prepare relevant balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis, ensuring they are accurate and making relevant adjustments as appropriate.
- Maintain and reconcile vouchers process on a monthly basis.
- Implement improvements to processes/reports as appropriate.
- Assist with the implementation of any new accounting system / ERP / processes.
- Maintain awareness of and compliance with the Integrated Management System.
- Assist in the processing of work as and when required.
- Ensure that holiday and sickness cover is provided for other members within the finance team.
- Carry out any other relevant duties as required within the department, or as required by line manager.
Who were looking for
- Previous experience within finance.
- Able to work collaboratively within a team to achieve joint goals and objectives.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Understanding of the wider business and how this relates to finance
- Accounting qualifications would be an advantage, but we can also offer the opportunity to study these for the right candidate.
Personal attributes
- Good communicator (written and verbal).
- Able to work with staff at all levels, build effective and efficient relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
- High level of integrity.
- Able to control processes, procedures and costs effectively without compromising good working relationships within the business.
Why work for us
CPS is a Joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over £100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.
If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other Highways project can offer.