Job Description

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General information

City/town:

Watford

Job field:

Business Support and IT

External closing date:

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Type of contract:

Permanent

ID:

5086
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Description and requirements

Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.



We are looking for a Financial Accountant to join our Finance Service Delivery team in Leavesden, Hertfordshire. You will be responsible for delivering and supporting Treasury owned processes and activities, including bank accounts and Treasury systems administration, cash management, controls, audit support, and scheduled & ad-hoc reporting activities for the Skanska UK Business Unit (BU).

What you'll do:

Administration of all bank accounts within the UK business (circa 100), including operational access, online and paper mandates Ad-hoc bank KYC checks, opening and closing bank accounts Process & support with manual Payments where needed Partnering with our Group Treasury function, external Banks, JV Partner Treasury teams, finance, other Enabling Functions and Operational stakeholders Post cash & support with cash posting in Oracle cash management Carry out the daily cash flow forecasting processes to Group Treasury ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Support the line manager in providing external auditors with bank reconciliations, statements, process walkthroughs, signatory information

What you'll bring to the role:

At least finalist for professional accounting qualification Considerable technical accounting skills and finance experience Knowledge and experience of financial reporting tools (ERP and Excel), data management and analysis Considerable knowledge and competence of Account reconciliation & validation, risk awareness, mitigation & critical thinking Considerable collaboration & business partnering skills Considerable time management, organisation and prioritisation skills Identifying and managing training and development of self and others Living the Skanska values, demonstrating ethics and professionalism

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using

recruitment@skanska.co.uk

if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us:

recruitment@skanska.co.uk

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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