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Accounts Assistant
We're looking for an Accounts Assistant to join our Kier Highways Somerset team based in Glastonbury Depot. This is an exciting opportunity to support the Finance Manager in delivering accurate financial control and reporting across the Kier Highways Somerset contract.
Location: Glastonbury Depot - Depot based 3 days a week Hours: Permanent Fulltime 37.5 per week Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per year + benefits We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
In this position you'll play a key role in managing material costs, stock valuation, procurement processes, and payroll, ensuring costs are correctly allocated and aligned to contract activities. You'll also support month-end activities, client recharges, and forecasting, working closely with operational teams to provide effective financial support. Our client is Somerset Council, and we deliver highway term maintenance services across their network, with a contract value of circa £20m per annum.
What will you be responsible for?
As an Accounts Assistant, you'll be working within the Kier Highways Somerset team, supporting them in delivering accurate financial control and reporting. Your day to day will include:
- Monitoring and managing material costs, reallocating costs to correct activity codes to ensure accurate profitability reporting
- Processing payroll by reviewing and validating timesheet entries, uploading to Oracle, and resolving payroll queries
- Managing procurement processes, raising purchase orders, receipting goods and services, and resolving invoice queries
- Conducting quarterly stock takes across depots and valuing stock counts
- Supporting month-end activities, client recharges, and quarterly forecasting
What are we looking for?
This role of Accounts Assistant is ideal for someone with:
- An AAT Level 3 qualification or demonstrable experience within accounting and finance.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel and accounting systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to contribute to meetings
- An analytical and proactive approach, with the ability to work accurately to tight deadlines
- A full driving licence
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.
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Job Description - Accounts Assistant 19.08.26 Somerset.docx
Location: Glastonbury
Vacancy ID: 12974
Background check: None
Closing date: 17 Nov 2026
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full Time
Flexible working: No
Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.
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