Balfour Beatty US Looking for Finance and Accounting Intern at Dallas, TX  Full Time

Become Part of Our Team

Summary

Provide quality customer service to both internal and external customers; improve knowledge and skills by pursuing continuous improvement of processes and procedures. Assist finance managers and directors with preparation of Ad-Hoc requests from internal customers and monthly reporting. Assist in vendor address book clean-up initiative

Essential Functions

• Assist in vendor address book clean-up project. Review and analyze address book entries for errors, duplicates, and updates.
• Build reports and analyze accounts payable data
• Oversee cash activities, including
  • Reporting daily bank balances
  • Reporting daily cash forecast
  • Reporting North American Cash position on a weekly basis
  • Reporting and Managing US liquidity
  • Provide recommendation for daily cash investing
  • Bank fee analysis and management
• Assist in opening bank accounts
• Prepare general accounting reconciliations
• Participate in certain aspects of general accounting, project teams, division finance and financial reporting including:
  • Prepare ad hoc reports and analysis as needed.
  • Assist in half-year appendix reports on bank accounts, direct debits, and related party payments.

Working Conditions

The majority of work is completed in an office setting with intermittent sitting, standing and walking.

No travel required.

Education, Experience, and Knowledge

• Working towards to degree in Accounting or Finance
• Ability to organize, use time, and other resources to prioritize multiple activities at once to accomplish desired results.
• Is full of energy for things that are challenging and enjoys working hard; builds effective relationships and likes to learn from supervisors who have been there before; easily coachable.
• Provides individuals with timely information needed to do their jobs and make accurate decisions.
• Exhibits a commitment to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, looks beyond the obvious for effective solutions in order to meet/exceed the needs of internal and external customers.
• Acts in a manner of integrity that shows support for the company, its values, and the employees while maintaining a constant focus on meeting/exceeding customer requirements and expectations.
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to meet deadlines such as weekly and monthly cutoffs in addition to the daily requirement of managing cash balances and cash activities.
• Ability to be patient and tolerant with people and processes; listens and checks before acting.
• Demonstrates an openness to change and can learn quickly when faced with new challenges.

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm, we are challenging the construction industry’s assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.