Financial Accountant
Recruit island
- Castlebar, Co Mayo
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Contribute to month-end close and related duties.
- Bank reconciliations.
- Debt analysis and reconciliation.
- Maintain intercompany schedule and related interest charges.
- Analyse G&A allocations to other cost centers.
- General account analysis, investigation, and reconciliation, as required.
- Prepare journal entries for approval and posting.
- Maintain fixed asset master, reconciliation to GL, and prepare depreciation expense.
- Provide and review inventory cost reports and assist in the inventory cycle counting process and related reconciliation back to the general ledger.
- Provide support for other corporate entity transactions.
- Facilitate the preparation of monthly financial statements in accordance with Accounting Standards.
- Coordinate with FP&A and assist on forecast, budget preparation and analysis.
- Perform monthly financial statement analysis and change causal investigations and communicate on such matters as needed.
- Collaborate in financial consolidation file maintenance and enhancements.
- Continuously assess the accounting system effectiveness and drive improvements.
- Create, test and maintain internal controls and related documentation.
- Liaise with financial statement auditors, prepare client schedules, and provide requested supporting documentation.
- Facilitate preparation of tax returns.
- Provide external tax accountants with tax return supporting documentation, as requested.
- Review purchase requisitions to ensure appropriate GL coding and verify larger purchases have been accessed by Senior Management.
- Ad hoc projects and reporting, as required.
- Prepare and submit grant applications.
- Prepare and submit CSO returns & other required returns.
- Qualified ACCA/ACA/CPA.
- Ideally 3-5 years post qualified experience in a manufacturing industry related role.
- Financial and Management Accounting background.
- Experience in analysing financial data and report preparation & presentation, knowledge of Irish GAAP.
- Intermediate to advance Excel skills.
- Strong accounting knowledge of AP, AR, Inventory & GL, and month-end close.
- Critical and effective problem solving and decision-making skills with the ability to work on one’s own initiative to resolve competing priorities and with minimum supervision.
- Excellent verbal & written communication and organizational skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to adapt to change are key to this role.
- Be a strong team member with the ability to identify and drive efficiency improvements.
- Experience in D365 would be an advantage.