GL Accounts Assistant
Location:Bristol, GB
Function: Finance
Part-time or Full-time: Full-Time
Job Type: Employee
Workplace type: Hybrid

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

• Specific Skills & Abilities
• Previous experience of working with SAP (desirable)
• Minimum AAT qualified (desirable)
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Good understanding of the workings of a shared service finance function
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic with attention to detail
• Ability to prioritise and structure work over time
• Demonstrates work flexibility throughout the month in order to satisfy key processing and reporting dates, particularly at month and year-end.

JOB PURPOSE

We are looking for a reliable and committed individual, ideally with SAP experience to work in our General Ledger team. The GL Finance Assistant role is responsible for maintaining general ledger accounts. This includes preparing journal entries for accruals and variances and performing month-end account closing activities and reconciliations to enable robust financial reporting.
The role is based in a Shared Service Centre (SSC) environment in Bristol.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• A key player during the Month End process
• Accurate and timely processing of SAP journals
• Monthly ledger revaluations
• Completion of monthly control account and balance reconciliations via both Excel and Blackline
• Processing of monthly prepayment and accrual journals
• Upload monthly exchange rates into SAP
• Input monthly payroll journals
• Investigation and processing of re-charges between sites
• Posting of other monthly journals and raising of invoices as appropriate
• Adhere to internal controls and SOX compliance
• Deliver a high level of customer service at all times
• Working alongside other teams within the SSC to meet deadlines
• Provision of cover for other GL duties