Record To Report Accountant

International Service Provider based in Greater Manchester requires an Assistant Accountant to solely focus on cash book and bank reconciliations for a 12 month contract

Reporting to the Finance Manager and working within a team of 8,To provide front office transactional services to the UK business, focussing on recording costs, analysing cashbook entries and reconciling key control accounts. Ensuring that bank statements are uploaded on a timely basis, transactions are matched within the cashbook, sales ledger and purchase ledger and that all queries are resolved.

You will facilitate the delivery of month end close activity, with subsequent query handling and well as maintaining the integrity of the general ledger through the promotion of best practice.

Key duties include:

• Uploading bank statements, allocate cash, prepare cashbook entries and investigate and resolve unknown items

• Ensuring that costs are appropriately allocated to UK business units, managing large data sets and using lookups to verify costs to a variety of source data

• Providing front office query handling to UK business finance colleagues

• Preparing bank reconciliations

• Preparing month end reconciliations ensuring resolution of reconciling items

• Preparing analysis of cost/balance sheet data to support UK business units

• Reviewing and monitoring volumes of open transactions in core systems

The ideal candidate will have practical working knowledge of transactional finance/general ledger procedures especially cash book and bank reconciliations and have experience of working with large volumes of data

You will also have strong excel skills ie to perform pivot tables, v look ups and sum-ifs

In addition you will have worked with a finance ERP system ie. SAP, Oracle, Workday or Navision

A 12 month fixed term contract is offered (which may be extended) and the opportunity to apply for permanent vacancies in finance

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