General Ledger Accountant

General Ledger Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Long term contract. Galway.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of monthly financial reports, ensuring they are completed in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.
• Preparation, analysis and posting of journals at month end.
• Preparation and analysis of balance sheet reconciliations at month end.
• Calculation, posting and analysis of monthly accruals and prepayments, ensuring that all items are accurately captured.
• Review and reconciliation of inter-company accounts, involving communication with other business locations worldwide.
• Preparation of multi-currency bank reconciliations.
• Preparation of variance analysis and standard cost updates as required.
• Provide cost information to management and other departments as required.
• Support in transition of functions to other locations into the CFS team.
• Collaborate with external audit staff for periodic year end review procedures and local statutory audits as required.
• Provision of input on local finance policies and procedures ensuring ongoing compliance for all accounting and finance operations.
• Participation in ongoing policy and control environment development to ensure compliance with applicable internal control regulations.
• Enhancement of existing processes and development of new ones to ensure the most efficient completion of duties.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent
• Must be a qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA, CIMA
• 2 - 5 years relevant experience - preferably with multinational background
• SAP/Oracle or other major ERP Systems experience is desirable
• Fluency in a European language an advantage
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential
• Able to work alone to understand and summarize financial data into high quality, accurate and usable summaries
• Strong computer skills especially MS Office