IR Associate Accountant

We are looking for an individual who is a strong Financial Analyst with a strong accounting background and confident with data manipulation and analysis.

They must be advanced on Excel (Pivots and V-lookups) as they will be working with large datasets. They will be working on open aged BAU items/ discounts, accuracy of outputs and analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the accounting controls at month end
• Progressing any settlement or reporting issues
• The role covers financial accounting, invoicing, analytics, and the implications of FX in contracts and agreements.
• Commercial insights will be gained, working closely with Commercial Finance (providing value adding analysis) and Group (to expedite the more difficult settlements)
• Run the Historical Correction process in month to true up gross and discount values from previous months.
• Take responsibility for the exchange of relevant debit and credit notes once discount reconciliations
• Manage the settlement of outstanding IR receivables and payables with a priority focus on reduction of "greater than 90 days" balances.
• Maintain and update monthly balance sheet reconciliations and additional analysis relating to control account variances, including invoice vs accrual variances and FX revaluations.
• Prepare cyclical KPI report and provide insightful commentary for management review

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