Processing of Purchase Orders for our main carrier reconciliation of invoices to monthly accounts and to weekly internal systems recording processed mailings.
Weekly reconciliation of other carriers invoices to costs allocated to them.
Assisting the Business Controller with creation and implementation of new checks, controls, and reconciliation.
Checking correct allocation of carrier costs to correct accounts and post correcting journals as required.
Monitoring of some customer rebates and commissions.
Liaising with customer service and sales teams for raising/ receiving of commissions and rebates, purchase orders, and/or credit notes.
Preparing and posting month-end journals.
Calculating and posting journals to accrue revenue for specific sales corrections, intercompany management fees on identified sales, and customers as required.
Preparing balance sheets reconciliations for commissions.
Assisting the Finance Network/Overhead team as required.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Excellent organizational skills with the ability to priorities own workload and work to strict deadlines.
Excellent and confident communicator.
Able to produce consistently accurate work with a high level of attention to detail even when working under pressure.
A "right first time" mentality.
Extensive knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, and Excel including VLOOKUP's, pivot tables, and other formulae.
Analytical skills - able to investigate and analyses data, identify trends, anomalies, and help determine their cause, with the confidence to question or challenge date or processes.
Typically, we would estimate that it would take between 1-2 years' accounting experience or prior experience working within a Transactional Finance function to acquire the skills required for this Finance role