Job Description

1. Maintain accurate and complete financial records, and ensure the business fulfils statutory and legal accounting requirements.

2. Maintain project accounting records, so that the MD can understand the profitability of projects by contract and customer.

3. Produce monthly management accounts, 12-week cashflow forecast and quarterly profit forecasts; and submit these to group as per group accounting timetable.

4. Ensure that the construction contracting operations are provided with accurate information, for the occasions that they may need to submit applications for payment to clients and for the assessment of subcontractor applications and project cost reviews.

Key Duties & Accountabilities:

· Ownership of processing of financial transactions to Sage and maintain appropriate financial controls (Set up Projects, posting all transactions (Sales invoices/applications, purchase orders by project, purchase invoices, subcontractor claims, bank payments and receipts).

· To manage and oversee all sales ledger and purchase ledger activities, including reconciliation of the control accounts and collection of debts and retentions.

· Ensure compliance with all necessary standards and statutory requirements including the timely submission of VAT / Payroll / CIS returns.

· Maintain detailed WIP records enabling margin analysis and where applicable variations to be monitored on projects, products and services delivered on each project.

· Collate monthly expenses claims and present summary ready for month end payroll.

· Process weekly and monthly payroll.

· Cash flow forecasting to ensure funding requirements are anticipated and managed ensuring business impact is limited.

· Flexibility to occasionally support the maintenance of contract project files and support to project engineers for placement of orders and arranging deliveries

· Provide support to FD and MD with ad hoc projects.

Working Relationships:

· Direct report to MD

· Develop strong internal relationships and be able to liaise with all levels of staff

· Develop good relationship with Bowdon Services Finance Director

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities