Job Description

Reporting to the Finance Manager and working within a team of 8, you will provide front office transactional financial accounting services to the business, focusing on recording costs, analyzing cashbook entries and reconciling key control accounts

Key duties include:

• To ensure that costs are appropriately allocated to UK business units, managing large data sets and using look ups to verify costs to a variety of source data

• To prepare cashbook entries, investigating and resolving unknown items

• To provide front office query handling to UK business finance colleagues

• To calculate accruals accurately and post on a timely basis

• To prepare month end reconciliations ensuring resolution of reconciling items

• To prepare analysis of cost/balance sheet data to support UK business units

• To review and monitor volumes of open transactions in core systems

• 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 accounts payable

• To adhere to UK and group accounting policies and procedures

• Participate as required as a team member in other special projects

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The ideal candidate will have practical working knowledge of transactional finance/general ledger procedures especially cash book reconciliations as well as working towards a finance qualification i.e. ACA/ACCA/CIMA/AAT or have equivalent experience.You will also have strong excel skills i.e. be able to perform pivot tables, v look ups and sum-ifs.