[Hiring] Finance Assistant @Costain Group

Role Description

The Transportation Consultancy Finance Team supports a range of consultancy frameworks within the Transportation Sector. The team works closely with project and commercial teams to ensure financial accuracy and compliance.

To support the Finance Manager in the delivery of financial administration and controls, ensuring financial records are maintained accurately and in line with department and company procedures.

The role will be remote with the option to work from a main office (such as St Marys Axe, London). The role will be part-time, working over 4 days (standard hours 8.30am to 5pm with 30 minutes lunch break). However, working days and hours are negotiable.

At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.

Responsibilities

• Raise sales invoices from certified Applications for Payment and maintain accurate invoicing records.
• Reconcile cash receipts against sales invoices and investigate discrepancies.
• Maintain the OPW register and ensure supplier invoices are processed promptly.
• Process month end accruals and goods receipts for OPW using approved timesheet information.
• Inputting cost journals in line with relevant procedures with appropriate approval and communication.
• Assist Finance Manager with month end processes, ensuring accurate recording of costs.
• Manage purchase orders, ensuring values are monitored and uplifted as necessary in line with company procedures.
• Carry out other reasonable duties commensurate with the role as required.

Qualifications

• Essential: At least 9 GCSE's
• Essential: Relevant A-Levels or BTech qualifications
• Desirable: Studying towards an accountancy qualification
• Desirable: Future goal to start studying towards an accountancy qualification

Requirements

• Essential: Ability to work well under pressure, solving problems in a calm and rational manner and always acting with integrity.
• Essential: Have clear written and oral communication skills.
• Essential: Is a good team player and demonstrates a positive ‘can do’ attitude.
• Essential: Keen to learn and to be challenged.
• Desirable: Experience of using EnterpriseOne (E1) or other accountancy software.
• Desirable: Previous experience in an accounting or accounts assistant position.
• Desirable: Computer competence (MS Word, Excel, document and finance management systems).

Company Description

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that discloses they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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