Record to Report Accountant

Salary: Competitive
Location: Crawley / Hybrid (3-4 days per week onsite)
Start Date: ASAP

The Client:
Curo are partnering with a Global Company who deliver their B2B Customers cutting-edge technology. Their automated test and assurance solutions accelerate technology development in the lab, and ensure new products and services perform in the real world. They specialise in innovative products and services, which address the test, assurance, and automation challenges of new generation technologies: 5G, SD-WAN, Cloud, Autonomous Vehicles and beyond.

The company offers a friendly and collaborative culture.

The Candidate:
This would suit a flexible candidate with good communication skills. Experience within a Record to Report environment is essential. It would be beneficial if you had experience in JD Edwards and/ or Hubble, as this would minimise the need for system training. However we will consider candidates that have not used these systems.

The Role:
It is a busy time for the organisation, so they are keen to take on an RTR Accountant to support the current team through year and beyond. We are ideally looking for an immediately available candidate, or someone who can start within a couple of weeks. This role will be crucial in the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes and is expected to actively support consistency of process and continuous improvement globally, while functioning at a high level of accuracy and efficiency.

Reporting to the Global Record to Report Supervisor, you will join the newly established Global Record to Report team in our clients fast-paced, exciting, hi-technology Communications Company. You will have responsibility for day-to-day accounting operations, initially for the North American region.

This is a hybrid role, and would suit a candidate who is commutable to Crawley for 3-4 days a week.

Duties:

• Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting activities, including balance sheet reconciliations, general ledger maintenance, and production of financial schedules.
• Perform monthly bank reconciliations.
• Perform analysis for monthly accruals.
• Maintain fixed asset sub-ledger, including recording new assets, disposals, and monthly depreciation.
• Establish, maintain, and improve accounting control procedures.
• Identify, gain support for and implement process improvements.
• Prepare and maintain amortization schedules for prepaid accounts.
• Prepare and file sales and use tax returns for multiple states.
• Manage the vendor setup process.
• Support financial and tax audits.
• Ad-hoc projects as needed.

Essential Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business, from an accredited university or part qualified accountant or qualified by experience. Minimum of 2 years of experience in Finance, Audit, and/or Accounting.
• Thorough knowledge of basic accounting procedures and principles.
• Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships is a must.
• Display strong written and oral communication skills.
• Must be able to work with large volumes of data.

Nice to have experience:

• Experience of working in a process focused environment such as shared services or outsourcing
• Experience of US tax and regulatory framework preferred.
• JDE E1 and Hubble experience preferred.
• Process management experience and familiarity with Lean Six Sigma or other process management disciplines desired.

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Job Reference: RL7184