Balfour Beatty Plant & Fleet Services LtdCost Controller
Oct. 2008 - Mar. 2011Derby, United Kingdom- Prepared and controlled the capital expenditure register, monitored progress of actual and allocated expenditure, and reported to senior management.
- Liaised with the Finance team in producing monthly accounts, fixed asset reconciliations and doing the depreciation run month end.
- Recording procurement spend to ensure accurate month end accruals. - Contract costing and pricing for jobs ensuring timely matching of revenue to cost.
- Created, maintained and reconciled the fixed asset registers with asset values over £4m.
- Producing financial justification to the senior team for all capital expenditure proposals using financial appraisals which include ROCE, IRR and payback.
- Analysing direct costs identifying variances against budget and trace costs to the activity.
- Working closely with Purchase Ledger to resolve invoice queries, ensuring all orders are GRNd and minimize liability exposure.
- Developed, championed and managed the introduction and implementation of a new Balfour Beatty Quote (BBQ) System.
- Controlled efficient and effective commercial administration systems.