Accountant

The position of Accountant takes responsibility for specific areas of the P&L, balance sheet and key finance processes

Your new role
Monthly close Activity

• Calculation of accruals and prepayments and posting of related month end journals.
• Monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Cross charge of internal costs and related liaison with depots.
• Reconciliation customer accounts to ensure completeness of sales, costs and inventory balances.
• Preparing management accounts and monitoring of data to ensure completeness of accounts.
• Review of the P&L, identifying areas for investigation and resolving the issues identified.
• Production and analysis of haulage and delivery cost statistic data

Ad hoc activity

• Analysis, extracting data from Oracle and other systems, producing summaries and highlighting salient points.
• Responding to queries and requests for analysis from the business.
• Answer queries raised during Statutory and SOX audits.

• Provide holiday cover to other finance team members as required.
• Any other tasks as directed by the Finance Controller and Finance Director.
• Allocation of the tasks within the team is subject to change by the Financial Controller and may change from time to time.

Process improvement

• Documentation of key processes and cross training to ensure cover.
• Identifying areas for improvement in the efficiency of own or other finance team tasks and opportunities for business improvements.

What you'll need to succeed

Required

• Part qualified Accountant or qualified by experience.
• Experience of
• Posting journals.
• Preparing management accounts and management information reports.
• Completing balance sheet reconciliations and ability to resolve issues.
• Analysis of data, identifying and then resolving issues.
• Using Microsoft Excel to an advanced level with large volume of data.
• Using an ERP accounting system

The ability to:

• Work alone and within a team.
• Work to tight deadlines.
• Be proactive
• Pay attention to detail.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• A 'can do' attitude with a high level of energy.

What you need to do now
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