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 Senior Site Support within the Finance Function. This role will be based on site in Birmingham.

Role Responsibilites;

• Lead the required transverse activities:
  1. Material Work collaboratively with BBN. Manage BBVJV expectations and lead monthly review. Act as a primary point of contact for any escalations/new way of working. Track progress and trends.
  2. Labour Lead the labour cost (direct and indirect) across all sublot’s. Ensure hours are recorded and approved on time with support from Tips Coordinators. Book hours and other items in Oracle Time & Labour weekly to generate accurate payroll.
   3. Month end and reporting Deliver a month end Site support reconciliation mechanism. One and only consistent way of reporting month end accruals (R12 and off system) and support finance colleagues.
• Work closely alongside other members of the finance team, to support overall delivery of the project.
• Lead and support aged accruals review and PO management.
• Be the primary SPOC for audit requests (internal & external)
• Process and documentation review - quarterly as a minimum.
• Drive compliance and standardisation across for the JV.
• CI mindset, drive new projects and ideas.

Experienced required

• Knowledge of accounting routines is essential
• Construction/construction related accounting experience is desirable
• Good attention to detail, a disciplined and organised approach to work and the ability to handle and work with complex data is required along with good communication skills
• Good Microsoft office skills, particularly Excel. Experience of Oracle is desirable

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

• 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.