The Financial Accounting team's primary responsibilities include month-end Group reporting. The team are also responsible for ensuring that all external audits run smoothly and on time. Further responsibilities include ensuring statutory financial statements and associated Corporation Tax returns are filed on a timely basis for a number of European markets.,

• Coordinate and manage fixed assets in SAP for all EMEA entities, ensuring the fixed asset register is accurate.
• Perform month-end depreciation runs and reconciliations, and handle year-end fiscal openings and closures for EMEA.
• Conduct quarterly reviews of asset registers with the relevant teams.
Group Accounting:
• Maintain fixed assets register and depreciation within the Group entity.
• Review and post the treasury prepayments journals.
• Review and post the treasury bank statement and reconciliation.
• Support the Financial Accountant with the preparation and review of the Group costs each month.
• Adhere to month end deadlines to produce balance sheet analysis and cost information on a timely and accurate basis.
• Monthly balance sheet reconciliation and review with those responsible.
KCC (Key Controls Checklist);
• Assist with coordinating responses for EMEA entities for the quarterly KCC questionnaire
Tax support:
• VAT - support with the run of all VAT reports and processes.
• Ensure training of other team members is kept up to date.
Bank Administration:
• Set up and maintain user information in online banking systems, ensuring controls are in place for new users and leavers.
• Build and maintain relationships with bank contacts, provide training for approvers, and conduct quarterly reviews of user login status.
Other:
• Audit - Liaise with External and Internal Auditors to provide relevant documentation when needed.
• Provide resource to support other parts of the Business when needed.
• Assist with Office for National statistics surveys.
  
  We're seeking a motivated individual with some experience in financial accounting, either AAT or finance related degree qualified, who is looking to apply their financial accounting skills to support a number of month-end reporting processes, and develop their business knowledge of areas like Tax, Treasury and Audit., Experience of an ERP system e.g. SAP FICO or similar
• Accounting Qualification to AAT as a minimum or graduate level
• Positive Outlook: looks to the future for opportunity, constantly challenges the status quo and drives for high performance
• Personable, enthusiastic, team oriented
• Good communicator who is able to build strong relationships in a matrix structure
  
  Are you looking for a step onto the finance career ladder with a global, £multi-billion business, surrounded by amazing people, who have doing the right thing and making each day better at the core of their company values?
Now is a great time to join RS Group! We are a global provider of industrial product and services solutions, and we have an initial 12 month contract available to join our financial accounting team., At RS we've been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the 'what ifs' into the 'why nots', the impossible into the possible. Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world. We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers. We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that's exactly how we partner with people - our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities - to solve problems. We'll also invest in your development and wellbeing - because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. Come and join us and over 9000 employees worldwide - and we'll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.