Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Cost Controller within the Finance team.

This role will be based on site in Centre of Birmingham 

Role description:

• Prepares sublots budget with site management.

• Ensures adequate coding of all recorded expenses,

• On a weekly basis review labor and plant reports

• On a monthly basis: - Collects main quantities and work site progress from other departments (QS, Design and Construction) and generates earned value - Ensures with Financial Department all costs and accruals are recorded during the month closing, - Participates to the monthly cost report issuance with the preparation of the Cost Value Reconciliation Report (CVR) - Conducts evaluations between earned value and planned value and on CVR variances - Prepares end of site trend/Rolling Forecast

• Maintains monitoring systems for all cost indicators, targets and standards Management & Performances requested,

• Prepares Ad hoc breakdowns of costs, scenarios, efficiencies, if & when requested

• Alerts management on budget variations and proposes improvement axis & actions plans to prevent recurring variations

• Alert management for all irregularities detected

Experience Required :

•Relevant experience gained within a contracting/projects environment is preferable but not essential, ideally as a Project Cost Accountant or Project Cost Controller.

• Excellent knowledge of cost accounting, budgeting and forecasting.

• Advanced Excel skills.

• They will be a self-starter, highly motivated, energetic and dedicated, with a strong track record of promotion in the organisations that they have worked in.

• The role may require some travel, but will be predominantly based in Site offices

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Free parking

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Excellent pension contributions

• Healthcare

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire. Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites: • 9.3km of viaducts • 62 overbridges • 35 cuttings • 56 culverts • 62 embankments • 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels • 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses Diversity and Inclusion Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability. Flexible working We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.