About the role
Your contributions will help us create new opportunities and possibilities every day – for us, for the country’s infrastructure, and for yourself.
Join our Highways team as a Finance Clerk on our Connect Plus Services joint venture and open up new pathways you never dreamt possible!
This role is based at our South Mimms office.
What you'll be doing
As Finance Clerk you will have the following responsibilities:
* 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 ensuring they are accurate on a monthly basis 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.
* Carry out any other relevant duties as required within the department, or as required by line manager.
Who we're looking for
Qualifications/ skills/ experience:
* Previous experience within finance.
* Able to work collaboratively within a team to achieve joint goals and objectives.
* A service outlook to how finance operates within the business.
* Understanding of the wider business and how this relates to finance.
* Accounting qualifications or willing to study.
* Able to control processes, procedures, and costs effectively without compromising good working relationships within the business.
* Good communicator (written and verbal).
* Able to work with staff at all levels, build effective and efficient relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
Why work for us
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.
Why join us?
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…
About us
Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.
Diversity and inclusion
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 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 Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.
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