Job Description

General information

City/town:

Watford

Job field:

Business Support and IT

External closing date:

Friday, October 17, 2025

Type of contract:

Permanent

ID:

5574

Description and requirements

Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.


As the Financial Accountant you will be responsible for delivering and supporting Treasury owned processes and activities, including bank accounts and Treasury systems administration, cash management, controls, audit support, and scheduled & ad-hoc reporting activities for the Skanska UK Business Unit (BU).

What you'll do:

Administration of all bank accounts within the UK business (circa 100), including operational access, online and paper mandates Ad-hoc bank KYC checks, opening and closing bank accounts Process & support with manual Payments where needed Partnering with our Group Treasury function, external Banks, JV Partner Treasury teams Post cash & support with cash posting in Oracle cash management Carry out the daily cash flow forecasting processes to Group Treasury ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Carry out the month Consolidated Bank Reconciliation Statement & FER Support the line manager in providing external auditors with bank reconciliations, statements, process walkthroughs, signatory information Support the development, implementation & maintenance of strong UK Treasury-related policies in line with group standards. Support Treasury technology (ERP, Excel etc) and process improvement initiatives

What you'll bring to the role:

Finalist for professional accounting qualification Technical accounting skills and finance experience Knowledge and experience of financial reporting tools (ERP and Excel), data management and analysis Knowledge and competence of Account reconciliation & validation, risk awareness, mitigation & critical thinking Collaboration & business partnering skills Time management, organisation and prioritisation skills Identifying and managing training and development of self and others

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using

recruitment@skanska.co.uk

or call 0330 105 2000 - Option 5 & 1, if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us:

recruitment@skanska.co.uk

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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