JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Assistant Accountant / SSC Co-ordinator (Mat Cover)
Job Location: Birkenhead
Date Created/reviewed: 22/07/24
Reporting to: Senior Finance Manager
No of direct reports: 0
Key Aim: To assist in the delivery of accurate and timely financial information and maintain a robust control environment and culture of continuous improvement. Establish collaborative relationship with the Shared Service Teams, co-ordinating and supporting them to ensure the shared service scope is delivered.
Key Duties & Tasks:
* Support Financial Accountant with Monthly Close Process
* Finance liaison with External Shared Service Centre for AP Ledger
* Finance liaison with External Shared Service Centre for AR Ledger
* Attend and support weekly calls as finance representative with customer services / business managers and customers with regards to AR Cash Collection activities
* Manage AP On hold report helping to ensure the procure-to-pay process runs as smoothly as possible
* Provide wider finance support to help keep AP/AR ledgers clean
* Assist with cash forecast preparation and recording of actuals
* Run the Internal Intra-Netting process
* Process Ad hoc invoices/credit notes - hands on approach
* Process the Employee Expenses into the ERP system
* Create Manual & BACS Payment runs
* Assist with external audit information requests
* Carry out any other reasonable duty or task as instructed by your manager in pursuit of Faiveley Transport's goals and objectives
General:
* Adhere at all times to the company's Health, Safety & Environmental instructions and requirements
* Must have hands-on approach
Working Relationships:
* Ability to build good working relationships across the business
Person Specification:
Requirements
Essential
* 5 GCSEs or equivalent at Grade A including English Language and Mathematics
Desirable
* Graduate status
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
* Strong IT Skills - Excel to a high level
* Previous experience of AP/AR ledgers
* Experience of working with ERP systems
* Ability to efficiently organise work-load
* Ability to work autonomously or as part of a team
* Previous experience of using Movex
* Strong analytical skills
Competency & Behaviour
* Demonstrate Wabtec Values: People First; Expand the Possible; Embrace Diversity; One Wabtec
* Discrete and diplomatic manner, demonstrating impartiality of judgment
* Resilient
* Excellent communicator
* Calm under pressure
* Can-do attitude
Other requirements
* Current driving licence
This job description will be continuously reviewed and is subject to agreed changes, as necessary.
Who are we?
Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.
Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers' potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more! http://www.WabtecCorp.com
Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:
Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.
To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world's brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.
We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles... People like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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