Commercial Assistant

6 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Colas Full time

At Colas Rail, we have over one hundred years of experience in delivering major innovations across our sector. Every day, thousands of train run on tracks built or maintained by Colas Rail. We deliver on the challenges set by a rapidly changing railway environment - constantly seeking to adapt our behaviour and culture to not only meet and exceed the expectations of our customers and stakeholders, but to also continuously develop and support our people.

**Purpose of the role**:
To provide support to the commercial managers and senior commercial managers to ensure the successful delivery of the control period 6 (CP6) contract with a focus on actual cost accuracy and subcontract management. Based at either Kings Norton or Bristol.

**Person Specification**:
Essential
- Experience of working within a commercial environment or experienced in a cost clerk or accounts Ledger role
- Experience in cost verification.
- Ability to work under own intuition and think of new ways to drive efficiencies.
- Ability to use range of IT packages including excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organisation and time management skills.

Desirable
- Preferred construction industry experience.
- Preferred experience of working within a commercial environment.
- Awareness of industry issues

**Key Responsibilities**:

- The formation of accurate and timely labour accruals to support period reporting.
- Validate subcontract timesheets against workplans / signing in records.
- The approval of summit requisitions and invoices.
- Support the production team with the raising of subcontract requisitions.
- Assist in the formation of subcontract final accounts.
- Provide audit support as and when required.
- Proactively assist with instilling commercial awareness throughout Colas Rail Ltd.

**What we offer**:

- Competitive Salary
- 26 days Annual Leave
- Industry leading Life Assurance
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Wellbeing Employee Assistant Programme
- Pension Scheme
- Eye Care Vouchers
- Long Service Award
- Season Ticket Loan
- Occupational Health Service

Colas Rail in the United Kingdom hold three core values: Care, Share and Dare. We take care of our employees, always ensuring safety is a top priority and we nurture our collective wellbeing. We share a passion for what we do, celebrate our achievements and value high standards like nowhere else. We dare to take on new challenges; we are one of the international leaders in our industry. We continually innovate and expand in new markets.

We value and encourage diversity in our workforce, regardless of background, disability, age, religion, or gender. As part of our aim to deliver quality services, we are committed to promoting equality and eliminating discrimination. We will create a workforce that is reflective of the communities we work and live in. We are committed to the Disability Confidence Scheme, and as such we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme.



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