Assistant Accountant

An excellent opportunity to work with one of Europe's most recognised businesses. 12 month Fixed Term Contract - Assistant Accountant. In order to be considered for this position, you must be immediately available or on a 2 week notice period. This opportunity will enable you to work from home.

Key Responsibilities

• To ensure that costs are appropriately allocated to UK business units, using lookups to a variety of source data
  * To calculate accruals accurately and post on a timely basis
  * To prepare cashbook entries, investigating and resolving unknown items
  * To prepare month end reconciliations ensuring resolution of reconciling items
  * To provide front office query handling to UK business finance colleagues
  * To prepare analysis of cost/balance sheet data to support UK business units
  * To review and monitor volumes of open transactions in core systems (e.g. Concur, Coupa, Maximo, Saffron and Navision)
  * To prepare, update and review operating procedure documentation
  * Assist management to facilitate continuous process improvement and ensure tight cost control, supporting Lean initiatives and maintaining integrity of systems and data
  * To perform root cause analysis of items where issues are found at the end of the process in PTP

Professional and personal competencies/qualifications

• Previous Record to Report / General accounting experience is desirable
  * Excellent accounting knowledge across Payables, Receivables and General Ledger
  * Experience / knowledge of Navision is preferable
  * Experience in a similar role within a multi-site business is desirable
  * Prior experience of working with an outsourced Finance Shared Service Centre is preferable but not mandatory