Finance Assistant - Maternity Cover

VolkerRail Major Projects is an expert in collaborative working through joint ventures and alliance schemes. Collaborative working agreements are a proven strategy for delivering large, complex railway projects, and through its strong relationships with other major contractors, VolkerRail Major Projects has helped to deliver several of the biggest rail projects over the last decade.

The SID is a fully integrated team that will bring together the strengths, capabilities, and knowledge of the partners and Network Rail. It will own the renewals work bank, manage it at portfolio level and drive a transition to a production management ethos. The SID is commercially aligned and jointly incentivised creating a ‘share in success’ environment. Business partners within the alliance will generate profit through performance against the Final Determination. The four partners, VolkerFitzpatrick, Octavius, Atkins, and VolkerRail are aligned to the core asset disciplines with the fifth partner, Network Rail Minor Works, being multi- disciplinary for low complexity, low value works.

We have an excellent opportunity for a temporary Finance Assistant working in our Tonbridge Depot on the Southern Integrated Delivery Project.

You will be responsible for:

• Monitoring, reviewing, analysing and controlling all costs for projects carried out within the SRE Track business stream.
• Daily collation, monitoring, review of all project related costs including: - labour costs, subcontractor
• costs, plant costs and material costs.
• Monitoring and review of all commitments including GRN’s and orders.
• To assist in analysing and reporting on cost codes, trends and allocations.
• Inputting purchase invoices onto the accounting system COINS.
• Matching invoices to purchase orders and delivery tickets.
• Building strong relationship with suppliers to resolve queries.
• Working closely with the site office managers to ensure delivery tickets are input onto the system to enable matching to the invoice.
• Working with the procurement team to resolve order queries etc.
• Preparing monthly payment runs.
• Assisting the project accountant with ad hoc projects and providing cover of some duties while s/he is on annual leave.
• Participate and justify to auditors in order to maximise the allowed costs in a timely manner and minimise disallowed costs where possible
• Undertake other reasonable duties as directed

About you

• Educated to GCSE – grade c in English and Maths
• Payroll / accountancy experience
• Highly organised
• Strong work ethic and a self-starter
• Work to a high degree of speed and accuracy to meet deadlines.
• Attention to detail
• Have the ability to communicate with all levels of the organisation
• Good knowledge of Microsoft office packages
• Willingness to problem solve / recommend solutions.

If your past experience doesn’t match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.

Why work with us?

VolkerRail is under the umbrella of VolkerWessels UK which is a multidisciplinary contractor that delivers innovative engineering solutions across the civil engineering and construction sectors including rail, highways, airport, marine, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.

By utilising the specialist skills of each business unit within VolkerWessels UK, VolkerRail are able to ensure our staff provide unrivalled resources and expertise to our clients.

We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.

We offer a range of benefits, including:

• Competitive salary
• Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
• Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
• Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits
• Flexible working opportunities
• Employee Assistance programme
• Mental health, physical health, and financial support

Fairness, inclusion and respect

We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive. You can read more about our FIR Strategy as well as our partners here

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