Commercial Accountant

Job Title: Commercial Accountant

Location: Flexible

Business Unit: Utilities

Contract: Permanent

Connecting people, powering the UK.

Kier Group is one of the Top 3 utility providers here in the UK - helping connect, heat and power the country from Lands’ End to John O’Groats. Our sector expertise stretches across telecoms, gas and water, working with emerging technologies to the most exacting standards of safety and quality. What does it take to join this team that keeps water running for over 15 million homes and businesses, maintaining 65km of gas pipes and installing one million metres of fibre optic cable every year? It takes people like you.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for a Commercial Accountant who will be a provision of front-line support to the Contract Management team. In this role you will provide assistance/completion of weekly and monthly reporting, including; trading performance, cost base analysis and cash conversion, also offering support to Commercial and Operational functions in understanding and challenging cost base. You will assist Commercial in the preparation of medium and long term finance forecasts and the Contract Management team in the establishment of Operational and Commercial performance metrics and develop early warning indicators. In addition you will prepare weekly cash forecasting and driving efficient profit to cash conversion, as well as controlling balance sheet reconciliation process and contract assurance.

What do we need from you?

You will need a professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with a minimum of 2 years post qualification experience, as well as having strong commercial acumen and experience of operating in an Infrastructure Services environment, ideally. If this sounds like you and you are an effective communicator able to engage with none financial functions and influence change, with a wide business awareness, able to lead on both finance and none finance matters then please apply!

What will you receive?

You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday) together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan). To find out more about the rewards and benefits at Kier, click here.

Make the journey. Leave a legacy.

Being part of Kier means living our values of beingCollaborative, TrustedandFocused. We all have the potential to shape our world, and it’s through these values that we will leave a lasting legacy. Bring your talent and ambition to Kier and you will be given the scope and opportunity to invest in your own future, to build your expertise and contribute to a rich and diverse culture.

Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all of our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. If you’d like to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Kier, you can contact the team by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these.