Job Introduction
Our Finance team based at head office in Birmingham Business Park, Solihull, are recruiting an Head Office Accountant with responsibility for supporting the wider business with cost control and general bookkeeping. Reporting into the Head of Financial Reporting, you’ll have line management responsibility for up to 3 Accounts Assistants and play a key role in month end accounting.
Main Responsibility
The Head Office Accountant will produce monthly management accounts and regular financial reports which are submitted to the Colas board and parent group. You’ll support in preparing VAT returns, allocating central costs throughout the business, doing balance sheet reconciliations and anything adhoc required by the management team.
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant and have previous experience in a management accountant type role or similar, ideally with atleast a couple of years’ PQE. You’ll be a dynamic individual and committed to supporting the team and wider business.
Package Description
Colas are offering a great package with this role, including:
- Discretionary bonus
- A generous pension contribution
- Life assurance cover (x4 basic salary)
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (with the option to buy/sell more)
- Flexible working
- Opportunity to study towards a professional qualification fully funded
- Ongoing training and personal/professional development
- Discounts on car leasing, holidays, cinema tickets, restaurants and much more through our online employee benefits portal
About the Company
Colas Ltd are a UK subsidiary of the global Colas Group, which operates in over 50 countries worldwide and employs over 55,000 people including over 1500 in the UK across multiple sites. We are specialists in highways construction and have been involved in large scale UK and international construction projects within the highways, airfields and marine sectors as well as offering highways maintenance services and manufacturing our own innovative surfacing products. We hold a ‘Gold Investor in People’ award for continuously developing and rewarding our employees, offering excellent career potential.
Colas is fully committed to promoting equality and diversity and maintaining a culture of fairness, transparency and respect for all employees, clients, communities, suppliers, contractors and other stakeholders. Colas aims to be inclusive, meet diverse needs and promote awareness and ownership in the workplace and the communities in which we serve.
Colas values the strength and differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and believes that by harnessing these differences, we will foster a productive environment where equity and mutual respect are intrinsic, where talents are being fully utilised and organisational goals are met.
