Description
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Company Accountant to join their Investments team on a temporary contract basis.
Main Purpose of the Job:
- To provide the accounting function for concessions to meet concession, lender, shareholder and statutory reporting requirements whilst recruiting a permanent member of staff to fill an equivalent position.
- To pick up requirements from the incumbent, and to pass these on to the permanent hire.
Key duties/responsibilities will include:
- Production of UK GAAP/IFRS monthly management accounts and commentary thereon (including variance analysis) to concession deadlines;
- Preparation of statutory accounts and acting as first point of contact with auditors;
- Preparation of annual budgets and periodic updates to support 6-monthly updates for lenders;
- Making payments to subcontractors and lenders to contractual timescales;
- Liaison with lenders in respect of loan agreement financial administration;
- In conjunction with the Finance Manager, maintenance of the Finance Policies and Procedures Manuals;
- Producing cash flow forecasts, managing treasury deposits and controlling company bank balances;
- Liaison with Finance Manager to determine technical accounting calculations as required (eg IFRIC 12 and FRS 5 for PFI and similar concession arrangements);
- Ownership of all General Ledger accounts and ensuring that invoices, payments, receipts and month-end journals are processed accurately and with required authorizations;
- Ensuring that the concessions' financial transactions are carried out in accordance with its contracts and accounting policies and standards and that reliable accounting records are maintained;
- Production of Balance Sheet account reconciliations;
- Liaison with internal audit function and resolution of issues identified;
- Preparation of Corporation Tax quarterly payment calculations and provision of information to tax advisers relating to annual computations and returns;
- Any other additional duties such as the Head of Finance, Finance Manager or Concession management team may reasonably require;
Ideal Candidate will have the following skills/experience:
- Educated to degree or equivalent standard;
- Qualified accountant;
- PFI experience preferable but not essential;
- Familiarity with SUN Accounts software preferable;
- Good practical accountant;
- Able to work with technical accounting concepts;
- IT literate especially with Excel and Word.
- Able to work and communicate effectively with colleagues at a range of levels;
- Able to act on own initiative and prepared to ask for guidance;
- Able to perform a number of different tasks and to prioritise own workload to ensure deadlines are met, whilst producing accurate work, is essential;
- Quick to assimilate and work effectively with new information;
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