We're looking for Graduate Management Accountant to join our Kier Places team based in Salford, Manchester.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading construction and infrastructure services company on our structured graduate development programme. These programmes have been designed to provide you with the experiences and tools needed for progression within your chosen career.

Location: Salford Manchester, with travel required to various Kier offices

Contract: Permanent, full time - 37.5 hours per week 

Salary: £29,250 per annum 

Start date: September 2025

What will you be responsible for?

Kier Group is a leading UK construction and infrastructure services company, made up of different business divisions including Construction, Transportation, Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks, and Property. With a diverse range of opportunities across the country, we offer a dynamic and inclusive environment where you can launch a rewarding career. To learn more about our business and divisions, visit here.

As a Graduate Management Accountant, you will lead across the Kier Places business unit, reporting to the Head of Finance for Kier Places.

The successful Graduate will be responsible for the provision, interpretation and streamlining of financial and management information to support and inform the operational and management teams in the day-to-day management of their business.

Your day to day will include:

• You will prepare and present P & L accounts for allocated projects and attend monthly P & L reviews.
• Management of the WIP and ensuring that invoicing is done on a timely and accurate manner.
• Production of monthly accounts with a detailed analysis and reporting of the results for the business unit responsibility against the annual budgets and quarterly reforecasts
• You will manage relationships with key stakeholders, including business stream and operational management teams, and to support to deliver the challenging results.
• Provide guidance and best practise to the Finance, Commercial and Administration teams.

How does the graduate scheme work?

When you join, you will be enrolled onto our graduate scheme. The programme will take 2 years to complete and has been designed to equip you with the skills you need to excel in your chosen profession and help you achieve professional membership or chartership.

You can find more details about our schemes here.

Benefits for you

• Practical experience: gain valuable hands-on experience in your field.
• Skill improvement: develop technical and professional skills.
• Networking: build professional relationships and expand your network.
• Career insight: gain insights into your chosen industry and potential career paths.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for people due to graduate in 2025, or have recently graduated within the past three years, with a degree in Finance or a related field. 

The role of Graduate Management Accountant is great for you if:

• Strong commercial acumen, with a high level of integrity and resilience.
• You are familiar with objective setting and taking personal responsibility in achieving those set
• You are an effective communicator with a passion to engage with non-financial functions and influence change.
• Hold a full UK driver license.

Rewards and benefits

We are proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a variety of flexible 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 high 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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

Recruitment timeline

October 2024: Initial applications

November 2024: Application reviews

January 2025 onwards: Virtual and in-person assessment centres