The Accountant will assist in key finance processes for the Europe Finance team including month end close, production of management accounts, reporting, cashflow, budgeting and forecasting processes.
They will be a strong team player with a substantial understanding of accounting principles and processes.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring all financial transactions are processed accurately, timely and in line with relevant standards.
- Reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts monthly for review by the Finance Manager.
- Month end reporting for assigned company in line with region/group deadlines and assistance with other month and year end reporting.
- Prepare the weekly/monthly cashflow forecast to ensure an accurate representation of future cashflows and balances.
- Assisting with External Audit, VAT/Tax and related returns as required.
- Review of financial performance with suggestions to improve performance of key financial and non-financial metrics.
- Support supplier payments process.
- Support the budget and forecast processes end to end for the assigned companies.
- Work across Europe Finance team to support whole team priorities and support Europe deliverables to group as necessary.
- Focus on continuous improvement and identifying opportunities for process efficiencies and simplification.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable
- Working on other ad-hoc requests and admin as required.