Accountant
Full Time
Job Description
- Assist with the month end close process, posting journals as required.
- Liaison with outsourced AP/AR/reporting functions as necessary, especially during month end.
- Support the Financial / Assistant Financial Controller with month end and quarterly Balance Sheet Reconciliations and commentary, for review by Financial Controller, EMEA and HQ corporate team.
- Assist in the preparation of annual statutory accounts, including audit liaison.
- Manage all queries from internal and external stakeholders through to resolution.
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders across the business;
- Ensure the teams are raising PO’s and processing invoices correctly and provided training where necessary
- Communicate required changes to processes
- Assist with their ad-hoc queries; and
- Understand their operations to ensure month end postings are accurate
- Key point of contact for the business
- Overall responsibility for VAT process including reviewing and sign-off of outputs from internal VAT team including VAT returns, and foreign VAT claims.
- Review Concur (travel and expense) reporting within the SAP ledger monthly to ensure costs are appropriately allocated to assigned business entity.
- Review and process monthly/quarterly intercompany recharges of the UK entity.
- Purchase order and purchasing group hierarchy maintenance.
- Provide support to FP&A team with both cash flow and P&L forecasting as required.
- Any ad hoc analysis/projects as required for both Finance Controllership and FP&A teams.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Part qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA or equivalent).
- Previous experience of management accounts and reconciliations.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills (particularly Excel and PowerPoint).
- A confident and pro-active communicator with the ability to effectively interact with non-finance personnel.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills.
- The ability to priorities and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, changing/growing environment.
- Comfortable in identifying issues and proposing solutions.
- The ability to operate effectively across diverse cultural and business environments.
- A team worker who is good at building strong working relationships.
- Experience of working with outsourced teams.
- Experience of working with General Ledger and Consolidation systems, SAP/BPC/AOE.
- Strong interest in the media industry and television business.
Reference no: 98594