Our client is a growing multi-national engineering company with its UK headquarters based in Woking. They are looking for an Accountant to join their team, reporting to the European Finance Manager, to assume a variety of duties, including daily/monthly accounting, and financial reporting and analysis work. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES - SITE SPECIFIC: Performs general accounting duties as required, including preparation and inputting of journal entries, account analysis and reconciliations. Maintains fixed asset records and manages company Capex reporting Responsible for preparing and filing multiple jurisdiction tax and VAT returns in a timely manner Assists in any sales tax and/or property tax audits Assumes a complementary role in various stages of the annual budget preparation Responsible for operating lease reporting; including various escalating leases Credit Control of UK and European Customers for allocated entities in line with Customer Terms of Business Assists FM with the external Semi-Annual Review and Annual Financial Statement Audits; including preparation of various footnote disclosures. SHARED FUNCTIONS - BASIC ADMINISTRATION REQUIREMENT Daily Accounting activities including: Bank reconciliations. (Multi Bank accounts and currencies) Processing and entry of vendor invoices and resolving queries Check sales invoices and produce daily sales report to the USA Cover colleague during holidays, absences and busy periods. Ensure all debtor, cash and bought ledger payments are promptly and accurately recorded Participates in various credit control and collection activities Agree all aging, receivable and payable, balance with General Ledger Entry of payments onto Banking Systems in preparation for authorization of payment. Petty cash and employee expenses. Filing of purchase and sales invoices, expenses, journals and other accounts correspondence. REQUIREMENTS Qualified or part qualified accountant (preferably CIMA but will consider ACCA / ACA) Experience utilizing and extracting data from an ERP system Demonstrated track record of project management Foreign language skills such as French or German would be a bonus