Job Description

You will be required to provide front office transactional services to the business, focusing on recording costs, analysing cashbook entries and reconciling key control accounts. You will also be facilitating delivery of month end close activity, with subsequent query handling.

Responsibilities include:

• 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
• 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 AP
• To adhere to company accounting policies and procedures

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Proven experience in a similar role Excellent accounting knowledge across Payables, Receivables and General Ledger Strong Excel experience Forward thinking, with a 'can do' attitude Strong analytical and communication skills Be able to work both independently and as part of a team