Financial Accountant - Stock

Location: Dublin Head Office

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Preparation of periodic financial and management accounts.
• Preparation of statutory accounts for a number of international legal entities.
• Liaise with audit teams and other advisors ensuring timely and accurate completion of all statutory obligations for a number of legal entities.
• Assist in the submission of periodic reporting packs to ABF (Associated British Foods).
• Involvement in technical financial accounting advice, researching the impact of accounting policy decisions on the business and advising of relevant changes.
• Support projects such as transition to Oracle Retail this may involve testing or covering period close activities if others in the team are completing testing

Other

• Significant cross-functional working across Finance, Oracle Project team and Planning & Space
• Comfortable working and taking responsibility in a dynamic environment

Education and Training

• Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CPA or equivalent)

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• 1+ years’ post qualification experience (preferably in a retail environment)
• Experience in stock and intercompany accounting an advantage
• Self-motivated with excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) - need to communicate to all levels within the business
• Excellent planning and organisation skills, ability to multi-task, plan and prioritise work schedule and work within agreed timescales
• Ability to work under pressure in a demanding environment
• Excellent attention to detail and an ability to analyse and interrogate high volumes of data as well as demonstrating an ability to focus on higher level overview
• Commercial awareness with ability to demonstrate a sound knowledge of wider business factors
• Have strong financial and analytical acumen as well as excellent Project Management and communication skills
• English is essential and other European language would be an advantage.
• Demonstrated initiative with strong work ethic

Computer Skills

• MS Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Strong Excel skills are required
• Oracle Financials, Excel4apps and Cognos would be an advantage

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