Accounting Assistant
Posted 1 day ago by eTeam
Negotiable
Undetermined
Onsite
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Finance Specialist - Accounting Operations role involves providing general accounting support during month-end close processes and ensuring compliance with enterprise standards. The position requires processing journal entries, account reconciliations, and managing payments across multiple bank accounts and legal entities. The candidate will also identify flaws in existing processes and recommend improvements. This is a full-time contract position based in Leicester, UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide general accounting support for month-end close while the team works toward LCD+3
- Perform journal entries and month-end close activities
- Conduct account reconciliations
- Understand and interpret applicable Enterprise Standards, SOPs, and Process Maps
- Identify and flag flaws in approaches, methods, procedures, and processes, and recommend improvements
- Provide payments support, processing payments across 25 bank accounts / 7 legal entities
- Support resolution of misdirected payments and other banking-related activities
Key Skills:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, or high school diploma / GED with at least 4 years of experience in Finance
- Minimum 4 years of experience using SAP in accounting operations
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to work independently
- Strong problem-solving skills
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leicester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Title: Finance Specialist - Accounting Operations
Location: Leicester, LE6 0FH, UK
Job Type: Full-time contract, 6 Months
Work Model: Onsite
Responsibilities:
- Provide general accounting support for month-end close while the team works toward LCD+3
- Perform and support:
- Journal entries
- Month-end close activities
- Account reconciliations
- Understand and interpret applicable
- Enterprise Standards, SOPs, and Process Maps to deliver globally competitive financial process/accounting services
- Identify and flag flaws in approaches, methods, procedures, and processes, and recommend improvements
- Provide payments support, focused on:
- Processing payments across 25 bank accounts / 7 legal entities
- Supporting resolution of misdirected payments and other banking-related activities coming from BR HQ
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, or
- High school diploma / GED with at least 4 years of experience in Finance
- Minimum 4 years of experience using SAP in accounting operations.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Ability to work independently.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
Required Qualifications:
Desired Characteristics: