Accounting Coordinator
Contract: 12 months +
Location: Bournemouth
Our client is able to achieve powerful results by connecting unparalleled data, analytics, innovative technologies like Healthcare-grade AI, and deep healthcare and scientific expertise. This enables a highly customized approach to address unique challenges.
Description:
• Review and reconcile sales invoices against business expectations, liaising with Account Managers and account for accrued and deferred income where appropriate.
• Review spend for reasonableness and compare to budget. Investigate and accrue where necessary, raising overspend issues with the Management Accountant.
• Identify costs requiring prepayments, post them to the ledger and manage their release throughout the year.
• Prepare and input monthly journals, reports and other systems inputs as required.
• Review and reconciliation of intercompany transactions, working closely with your counterparts in the other Group companies.
• Review and reconciliation of balance sheet codes.
• Provide on-going financial support to the business as appropriate.
• Prepare monthly management information reports ready for review by the Management Accountant.
• Update foreign exchange rates in the system and reconcile variances monthly.
• Review and maintain finance processes and procedures and recommend opportunities for improvement.
• Review of coding by the Transactional Processing Team for accuracy.
• Preparation of VAT returns across group entities.
• Assist with external audits, liaising with the auditors and answering their queries as required.
• The above is not exhaustive and is subject to change. You will carry out any other reasonable task or tasks in connection with the job function, as requested by your manager.
• Can demonstrate the flexibility and ability to work with multiple currency accounts.
• Has the ability to use Excel to an intermediate level to download data from systems and analyse it for reconciliation.
• Has the ability to use computerised accounting systems.
• Has the ability to work to deadlines whilst ensuring attention to detail and quality of work.
• Good people skills and the ability to talk effectively about their work to non-accountants is essential for performing cost centre review with managers.
• An understanding of how an accounts team works and how to interact with the different roles within the team required