Accountant – Manufacturing (4967)

Worksop, England, United Kingdom

12/15/2024

The Opportunity

We are looking for an exemplary Accountant, ideally with manufacturing experience, to provide strong financial controls and reporting, at Explore Manufacturing / the Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction (CEMC) in Steetley, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.

CEMC is at the heart of Laing O'Rourke's commitment to offsite manufacturing, and is the industry leading offsite precast facility, which began production in July 2009, manufacturing a range of products including walls, floors, columns, beams, platforms and bridge components for Laing O'Rourke's and external client's projects throughout the UK.

Current projects include Everton's new stadium, Olympia redevelopment, Oxford Humanities and various HS2 packages.

Take a look at the facility: https://youtu.be/NuVqXPhsID0

Main Accountabilities

The role comprises the following key responsibilities:

• Reporting Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cashflow performance along with submitting budget/forecasts to Group
• Analysing business performance and providing explanations for variances in budget & forecast
• Take responsibility for balance sheet accounts, FAR & stock listings ensuring reconciliations are undertaken on a monthly basis
• Weekly cash forecasting, driving opportunities to maximise cash and manage working capital
• Internal review ensuring Stock and WIP are reflected accurately in the system and on reports
• Proactively identifying and improving finance and business processes to ensure fast, accurate management information is available
• Keeping up to date with Accounting Standards and implementing new accounting treatments where necessary
• Understanding business risks and strategies
• Prepare and review the supporting schedules for year end audit
• Preparation of VAT & CIS returns
• Travel occasionally required to other offices
• Two direct report - Accounts Clerks
  
  

What skills and experience are we looking for?:

Essential

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)
• Strong communication and influencing skills. An ability to communicate effectively at all levels and to build and maintain productive working relationships
• Proven experience working in a deadline-driven environment with the ability to prioritise workload
• Experience in developing and improving processes
• Strong financial and analytical skills
• Experience in managing budgets, forecasts, and monthly reporting
• Excellent IT skills - particularly Excel and PowerPoint with Power BI an advantage.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience using SAP, COINs, Tagetik, and Power BI
• Experience working within a large manufacturing company.
  
  

Personal Attributes

• Candidates must have a record of academic success and a mix of the following personal and professional characteristics:
• Highly driven and committed individual
• Enthusiastic, resilient and collaborative
• Effective communicator, a strong team ethic, and a desire to share knowledge
• Confident, ambitious, well-rounded, and able to relate to a variety of stakeholders from senior executives to administrators
• Self-motivated
• Analytical
• Excellent attention to detail
• Always looking for ways to improve processes.
  

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About Us

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com