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    We have an exciting opportunity to join our Rail Infrastructure business as an Assistant Project Accountant within the Finance Team in Derby! You will work closely with the team and engage in the financial management of the projects within the East Coast Digitalisation Programme, within the Project Delivery organisation.

    What are my responsibilities?

    • Undertake a handover from the Tendering and Estimating team of the financial elements of a successful bid, including the baseline value and budget of the smaller scale projects.
    • Assist with the review and analysis of project actuals and forecast spend to support Work Package Managers (WPM) and the Project Manager (PM) in the financial control and forecasting of their budgets.
    • Assist with the analysis of new project forecasts, developing a view on robustness, timing, risk and opportunity. Review and, if necessary, challenge with both WPM and PM before finalising .
    • Ensuring all change is properly incorporated in cost and value, including approvals for submitting contract variations and including unagreed variations in forecast final value.
    • Working with other parts of the project team as necessary
    • Ensure all project audit requirements are dealt with in a timely and professional manner.
    • Ensure Agency Application and Certification process is managed and schedule returned within company timescales.
    • Assist with project reports and forecasts ensuring they are submitted to Central Finance on time, accurate and approved.
    • Provide meaningful supporting commentary where required on variance analysis
    • Assist with accruals journals relating to each project.
    • Ensure the correct trading margin % and verify the traded position
    • Assist with commentary on traded position and financial status/movement where necessaryAccounts Receivable
    • Manage or support the setup, submission and processing of Payment Applications, certificates and invoices, including all postings to the ledger.
    • Actively monitor the payment cycle ensuring any required actions are taken to maximize the cash position, chasing payments with supplier where necessary
    • If dealing with cost reimbursable contracts, ensure timely and accurate provision of all supporting information to enable issuing, approval and payment of project milestones in a timely manner.

    What do I need to apply for this job?

    Essential

    • Starting to study Professional qualification.
    • Strong communicator with the ability to challenge and influence others
    • Desire and ability to work closely and develop productive relationships with both finance staff and other project functions.
    • Strong organisational/planning skills
    • Intermediate Excel skills

    Desirable

    • Relevant contract accounting experience
    • A high level understanding or core contract terms and conditions which have a financial aspect

    About us

    We’re Siemens. A collection of over 377,000 great minds who are all making the future and you could be one of them! We have offices across the UK, full of talented individual’s helping us to challenge the today and work towards a brighter tomorrow.

    We are looking forward to receiving your online application. Please ensure you complete all areas of the application form to the best of your ability to help us review your suitability for the role. We will be in contact as soon as possible with an update on your application.

    What else do you need to know?

    Our compensation package includes a competitive salary, holiday allowance and pension. We celebrate the fact that our employees are individuals and have different wants and needs. With this in mind, we have a flexible benefits scheme where you can tailor your benefits package to suit you.

    If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new! That’s why we recruit great minds from all walks of life. We recognise that building a diverse workforce is essential to the success of our business, therefore we encourage applications from a diverse talent pool. We are proud to announce that we have partnered with VERCIDA, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site where all our vacancies are in an accessible format. We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants to encourage agile working and innovation.