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Finance Apprentice (REC)

Balfour Beatty Vinci • Level 4 • Birmingham, England, United Kingdom • £26k - £28.50k / year • 1m ago

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Finance Apprentice (Level 4). This role will be based on site in Birmingham.

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented inance Apprentice to join our team. This role is ideal for someone looking to start a career in finance, gaining hands-on experience while working towards relevant qualifications.

Experience required

Manage the day-to-day payment runs (BACS/CHAPS) and be proactive in identifying any payment risks.
Attend the weekly cash call and assist the team in providing them with relevant information.
Updating cash movements file and ensure it is kept up to date.
Managing International Run and be proactive in identifying any payment risk.
Preparing financial appraisal of the company's and highlight to the stakeholders the business with high /medium and low risk which help their decision making to assign them contract for the business.
Maintaining and updating Equipment Register of BBVJV, collecting the data from the sublots, compiling it and keeping it up to date.
Ensuring PBA (Project Bank Account) Joining Deeds are signed by all new and old suppliers.
Other ad-hoc tasks such as banking paydowns and raising MPR’s (Manual Payment Requests) as and when requested.

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Apprenticeship Overview

Standard: Professional accounting or taxation technician
Apprenticeship Length: 18 months (this does not include EPA period)

Benefits of working with us

Flexible working available for some roles
Free parking
Travel allowance for eligible candidates
Family friendly leave policies
Excellent pension contributions
Healthcare
Health risk assessments
Access to employee assistance programmes
Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

9.3km of viaducts
62 overbridges
35 cuttings
56 culverts
62 embankments
2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels
28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.