Finance Assistant - Maternity Cover

Volkerwessels Uk; East Malling; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Competitive annual leave

Pension

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work scheme

Shopping and restaurants vouchers, and

discounts

Training and development opportunities

Family friendly policies includingenh,

Flexible working opportunities

Employee Assistance programme

Mental health, physical health, and fi

Job summary

VolkerRail Major Projects in Kent seeks a temporary Finance Assistant to join the Tonbridge Depot team on the Southern Integrated Delivery Project. The role focuses on cost control, purchase invoices, and collaboration with site managers to ensure timely and accurate financial records.

Candidates should have GCSE English and Maths, payroll or accounting experience, and strong Excel/Office skills. The role offers competitive rewards, pension, life cover, and flexible working options.

Qualifications

• GCSE English and Maths (Grade C) required.
• Payroll or accounting experience preferred.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of the organisation.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, review, analyse and control all costs for projects within the SRE Track.
• Daily collation and review of all project costs including labour, subcontractor costs, plant and material costs.
• Monitoring and review of all commitments including GRN’s and orders.
• 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.
• Build strong relationships with suppliers to resolve queries.
• Work with site office managers to input delivery tickets for invoice matching.
• Collaborate with procurement to resolve order queries.
• Prepare monthly payment runs.
• Support the project accountant with ad hoc projects and cover during leave.
• Participate in audits to maximise allowable costs and minimise disallowed costs.

Skills

Payroll / accounting experience

Highly organized

Attention to detail

Good communication

Microsoft Office

Education

GCSE English and Maths (Grade C)

Tools

COINS

Microsoft Office

Job description

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.

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