Accountant - Manufacturing (4967)
The Opportunity:
We are looking for an exemplary Accountant, ideally with manufacturing experience, to provide strong financial controls and reporting at Explore Manufacturing / the Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction (CEMC) in Steetley, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
CEMC is at the heart of Laing O'Rourke's commitment to offsite manufacturing and is the industry-leading offsite precast facility, which began production in July 2009, manufacturing a range of products including walls, floors, columns, beams, platforms, and bridge components for Laing O'Rourke's and external clients' projects throughout the UK.
Main Accountabilities:
The role comprises the following key responsibilities:
1. Reporting Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cashflow performance along with submitting budget/forecasts to Group
o Analysing business performance and providing explanations for variances in budget & forecast
o Take responsibility for balance sheet accounts, FAR & stock listings ensuring reconciliations are undertaken on a monthly basis
2. Weekly cash forecasting, driving opportunities to maximise cash and manage working capital
o Internal review ensuring Stock and WIP are reflected accurately in the system and on reports
o Proactively identifying and improving finance and business processes to ensure fast, accurate management information is available
o Keeping up to date with Accounting Standards and implementing new accounting treatments where necessary
o Understanding business risks and strategies
o Prepare and review the supporting schedules for year-end audit
o Preparation of VAT & CIS returns
o Travel occasionally required to other offices
o Two direct reports - Accounts Clerks
What skills and experience are we looking for?:
Essential:
* Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)
* Strong communication and influencing skills. An ability to communicate effectively at all levels and to build and maintain productive working relationships
* Proven experience working in a deadline-driven environment with the ability to prioritise workload
* Experience in developing and improving processes
* Strong financial and analytical skills
* Experience in managing budgets, forecasts, and monthly reporting
* Excellent IT skills - particularly Excel and PowerPoint with Power BI an advantage.
Desirable:
* Experience using SAP, COINs, Tagetik, and Power BI
* Experience working within a large manufacturing company.
Personal Attributes:
* Candidates must have a record of academic success and a mix of the following personal and professional characteristics:
o Highly driven and committed individual
o Enthusiastic, resilient and collaborative
o Effective communicator, a strong team ethic, and a desire to share knowledge
o Confident, ambitious, well-rounded, and able to relate to a variety of stakeholders from senior executives to administrators
o Self-motivated
o Analytical
o Excellent attention to detail
o Always looking for ways to improve processes.
About us:
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East, and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. #J-18808-Ljbffr