Accountant - Multinational Engineering Company

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