Finance Assistant- Internship

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Colas Ltd Full time

**Job Introduction**:
Colas Ltd are a global civil-engineering contractor specialising in highway infrastructure - some of our current projects include a £20mil bridge construction scheme over a motorway in Dover and a £16mil town centre bus boulevard scheme in central Swindon. We have a unique opportunity for a Finance intern to join us on a paid fixed term contract. This would suit individuals either fresh out of school/college looking to go straight into industry focusing on finance, or alternatively, a graduate who needs to do a 12 month placement as part of their finance degree.

**Main Responsibility**:
We have two finance internships available, you will have an overview of the positions, and then move to a specific role.

PI002 : Financial Controller Assistant

PI003 : Creditors Financial Analyst Assistant
- PI002 : Financial Controller Assistant_

**Cash performance**
- Produce the weekly debtor ageing report
- Reconcile the clients’ outstanding per project
- Calculate the WIP of each project based on the cost-based progress revenue method (IFRS 15)
- Reforecast expected cash outflows weekly
- Calculate the Cash Conversion Cycle for each legal entity
- Monitor intercompany debtors

**Data integrity**
- Run controls on resources not receipted in the cost capture tool
- Run controls on PO raised on the wrong WBS element
- Run internal controls/audits on the use of WBS elements
- Audit every week the project filing for securing the commercial position

**Project performance**
- Ensure all recharge projects have no balance at month-end
- Support Cost Control by monitoring project resources, cost capture, and cost reallocations
- Produce the management report on the month-end CVR position
- Update the corporate R&O register when required

**Budget process**
- Support the budget process by coordinating its preparation
- Prepare activity forecast with projects
- Review final project positions with compensation event and cost forecast assumptions
- Monitor overhead evolution against forecast
- Provide help with compiling the budget package
- PI003 : Creditor Financial Analyst Assistant_

**Transaction**
- Monitor invoices blocked in the scanning solution
- Refine the scanning solution rules with the service provider support team
- Liaise with the scanning solution support team about OCR errors
- Match invoices with receipts (three-way matching)
- Code invoices not matched
- Push receipts not signed off before month-end

**Data integrity**
- Liaise with all parties regarding non-compliant invoices/documents
- Run controls on non-compliant orders
- Audit regularly each step of the subcontract management process
- Investigate each single one-shot supplier
- Update the risk matrix report on the payable process weekly

**Training**
- Train project teams on the resource planning tool for better cost capture
- Train project teams on the cost capture system
- Support finance and project teams training on the recent updates of the P2P process
- Support finance and project teams training on fraud prevention

**Tax**
- Audit the GL daily and ensure VAT codes are applied correctly
- Audit the GL daily and ensure CIS is applied correctly on subcontracts
- Run controls on the supplier database and ensure VAT codes are set accurately by default
- Run controls on the supplier database and ensure subcontractor tags are set accurately by default

To be considered for these roles you’ll need to be fresh out of school/college, or alternatively, mid-way through a university degree and looking to do a placement year - these are paid internships and will look fantastic on your CV for a future career in finance.

Personally, you’ll be eager to learn, reliable, hard-working, organised and comfortable working to deadlines as either part of a team or individually. You’ll have a specific training plan devised to increase your skills, knowledge and understanding of the activity. We are highly selective. You’ll be commutable to Birmingham Business Park in Solihull and comfortable beginning your career on the UK minimum wage.

**Package Description**:
As well as a highly competitive salary, Colas offers some great benefits with this role, including:

- 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 policy
- 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, airf

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