Accounts Assistant
Full Time
Job Description
- Leads portions of the month-end close process including the preparation and analysis of schedules, reports and posting of journal entries and understanding the impact to the overall financial statements.
- Analyzes trends and explains actual variances to prior periods and forecasts including researching and providing appropriate support
- Reconciles and reviews higher risk and more complex balance sheet accounts including identification, resolution and communication of reconciling items as necessary.
- Leads and/or significantly contributes to department initiatives, special projects and critical deliverables and actively works to improve key department measures and metrics.
- Documents internal processes, suggests improvements to procedures and controls and generally challenges the status quo
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- 4-year degree (Finance, Accounting) or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 3+ years’ experience
- Strong financial technical skills working with large ERM programs (Oracle, PeopleSoft, Hyperion)
- Strong understanding of finance and accounting principles, including P&Ls, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flow Statements
- Awareness of internal controls and compliance requirements
- Strong Excel skills
- Proven experience of working in a commercially focused finance team, preferably in a fast paced, multi-site, large company
- A degree of commercial acumen is essential, together with the ability to think through the numbers and effectively communicate the interpretation of key issues in a clear, concise manner
- A rigorous mind-set and the ability to deliver timely and insightful information
- Ability to work well under pressure and looking for new challenges
- Excellent interpersonal skills and relationship building capabilities with the ability to quickly form working relationships and gain credibility with others.
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