The Role
Assistant Accountant
Dublin West - Permanent
Salary: €33-36K
Start Date: Oct/Nov 2017
My client is seeking to appoint an experienced Assistant Accountant on a permanent basis.
This role will work within the Treasury Department of the organisation.
The successful candidate will need to have a strong Treasury Background and be proficient in the following:
- Experience managing high volumes of cash
- Experience monitoring the cash flow
- Strong Bank reconciliations experience
SAP Experience and strong Excel skills would be a distinct advantage
Key Responsibilities:
- Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations for Companies across the group
- Work with the Group Financial Accountant to resolve and clear reconciling items, processing adjustments arising from monthly balance sheet reconciliations in advance of current month end close
- Accruals and prepayments postings as required to accurately reflect the costs of the business
- Assist with open PO accruals aging review and maintenance
- To work with Financial Controllers, Internal Audit and Process Integration on the identification of and resolution of control issues and process improvements
- Present findings of monthly balance sheet reconciliations to the Group Financial Accountant
- Daily postings and clearing of bank transactions
- Preparation of monthly group bank reconciliations as part of month end close process
- Invoice discounting facility bank to debtor reconciliation
- Assist with preparation of quarter end & year-end audit files and analysis
- Act as point of contact with external auditors for bank & balance sheet reconciliations
- Support all month end general accounting activities & overhead cost analysis. Ensure that month-end file, journal preparation and back-up is best-in-class.
- Work with the team and the business to support the month end close within the required deadline
- Responsible for creating fixed assets approved for capex spend
- Posting of employee expenses on a monthly basis
The Person
Key Skills:
- Part-qualified with minimum 1-2 years’ experience within accounts.
- Strong background within Treasury
- Significant experience in the area of Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Ability to work with significant volumes of data to investigate and arrive at a point which allows an information based decision to be made
- Ability to work on their own to deliver results within a short period of time
- Dealing with 3rd parties where necessary to resolve issues identified in reconciliations.
- Audit experience, either as part of an internal audit function or an audit practice
- Previous experience of preparing accounts using SAP or other similar accounting systems
- Ability to work effectively under time and delivery pressures
For more information on this role, please contact Damian Ryan
Tel: 045-988500