Job Description

Role: Accountant (General Ledger)
Hourly rate: \xc2\xa3250 Umbrella
Contract length: 6 months
Location: Royston & Home working (hybrid)

Exciting interim opportunity for an experienced General Ledger Accountant to work for a leading organisation based in Royston.

Reporting into the Plant Accounting Services Manager who is responsible for all Plant Transaction Accounting, Account maintenance and Trial Balance preparation for a defined set of GL accounts. The GL accountant is a key role alongside the Metal Accountant supporting the Accounting Services Manager in preparing an accurate TB, ensuring all transactions are captured, work closely with AR, AP (SSC) etc and ensures controls and accounting policies are applied.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for preparing monthly Trial Balance including preparation of journals for management adjustments, fixed assets and depreciation, capital projects, and intercompany allocations.
• Independently prepare general ledger and fixed asset reconciliations.

Establish and maintain Fixed Asset policies and procedures with support from Plant Financial Accountant. * Establish and maintain effective accounting policies working with the Plant Compliance & Control and Sector Controlling team ensuring they are effectively operationalised.

• Record capital project spending and provide project transactional reporting to enable monitoring of capital projects.
• Coordinate the stocktake process with the Supply Chain team and manage the stocktake reconciliation process to ensure physical stocks tie in with the book balances, in line with a defined policy for inventory management as agreed with the Plant Financial Accountant.
• Responsible for managing GL transactions for product costs working with the Plant Insights & Decision Support team to source transactional data, including:

o Source data on process of conversion from Raw Materials to WIP and Finished Goods, and correct valuation of the inventory including calculation of Overhead.
o Review all work orders (PO process orders) from production and capture all relevant costing in SAP.
o Updates to transfer prices and prepare reconciliation of toll cost and revenue. * Ensure timely reports are available from SAP and other spreadsheets for management information purposes as and when requested.

• Create, maintain and close GL account codes; project account codes and fixed asset master data files.
• Drive continuous improvement of GL accounting processes, identifying process and control inefficiencies, defining business requirements to address these, and implementing solutions directly or via Businesses Clean Air change management governance.

Key skill sets required
Part qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent
Experience embedding compliance to accounting policies and controls in a global organisation
Ability to apply knowledge of applicable Accounting Standards and Cost
Experience within Finance function preferably in the manufacturing environment is desirable
Experience of chemicals / automotive industry is desirable
Ability to work collaboratively and provide appropriate challenge, insight and influence through process knowledge, often under time pressure
Good understand of product costing in the context of Financial Accounting
Strong analytical skills which will be rapidly interpret and to know how to explain and act with complex information
Excellent planning and organizational skills with ability to prioritise workload according scope and tight deadlines
Build positive working relationship supported by strong communication skills to have interactions with all levels of business, clients and auditors
Good team working, continuous improvement and learning expertise
Microsoft Office and knowledge of SAP

If you are interested in becoming part of this growing success story please submit your CV now to be considered for the position. REF

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