Description
We are currently recruiting for a General Ledger Specialist to work within a leading financial company in Bracknell.
You will be responsible for conducting accounting activities relating to the maintenance of a complete and accurate general ledger and report preparation.
Duties & Skills
- Journal preparation, uploading and posting into JDE
- Responsible for balance sheet reconciliations monthly
- Correct accounting for Fixed Assets, Prepayments & Accruals at month-end
- Responsible for overhead analysis and reporting to budget holders
- Assists with monthly and annual closings
- Inter-company charges
- Allocations of support function costs
- Prepares KPI's for internal departments and other ad hoc reports to strict deadline
- Developing good working relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues
- Ensure compliance with accounting principles, SSC standards and SLA's
- Recognise and communicate potential issues/risks with team
- Assist with internal and external audit
- Adhere to strict Matrix approval procedure
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of organizational structure
- Assess the risks and work in a safe manner at all times, robustly implementing health and safety rules, instructions and systems and refuse to undertake work that compromises your safety or health.
- Report in a timely manner all incidents including near miss and safety observations (NMSO), accidents and injuries and raise any health and safety concerns with your line manager.
Essential criteria
- 2 years finance/business related job experience
- Experience of working with foreign currencies
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft packages, Excel, Word etc
- Excellent customer service skills across multiple locations
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Industry or shared service experience
- Fluency in written & oral English.
- Team Player
- Ideally Part Qualified CIMA or ACCA