Finance Assistant - Maternity Cover

VolkerWessels UK Ltd.; Tonbridge; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work

Training and development

Flexible working

Job summary

VolkerRail Major Projects in Tonbridge is hiring a temporary Finance Assistant for the SRE Track business stream. You will help monitor and control project costs, process invoices, assist in preparing payments, and support the project accountant.

Key requirements include GCSE English and Maths, payroll/accountancy experience, strong organisation, attention to detail, and good MS Office skills. Experience with COINS and supplier liaison is a plus.

Qualifications

• GCSE English and Maths required.
• Payroll and accountancy experience desired.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills essential.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in work.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, review, and control project costs for SRE Track.
• Process purchase invoices and matching with orders and delivery tickets.
• Input invoices on COINS and assist with monthly payments.
• Support project accountant and auditors as needed.
• Liaise with suppliers and site office managers to resolve queries.

Skills

Payroll experience

Accountancy experience

Highly organised

Attention to detail

Microsoft Office

Communication skills

Education

GCSE English & Maths

Tools

COINS

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.

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 Fairness, Inclusion and Respect | VolkerWessels UK

If you need support with your application, please contact us at [e-mail]

Additional information

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.

We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable, and we kindly ask that all inquiries to be directed to [e-mail]

VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.