Consolidation and Reporting Accountant

Job description

Consolidation and Reporting Accountant
Salary up to £42,000 based on experience plus a fantastic benefits package

Felling, Gateshead

As a nearly qualified accountant with gained from either practice or industry, you are looking to develop your career in a business that will encourage your input, welcome your ideas and act on them. That business is AkzoNobel.

As Consolidation and Reporting Specialist you will deliver high quality, timely, adequate and reliable monthly financial closing processes for business units.

We operate in a number of important market segments ranging from buildings and infrastructure to transport, industrial and consumer goods. We're also the sector leader in sustainability and number one in the renowned Dow Jones Sustainability Index. We are also named amongst the Top Employers in the UK. You can't make a great impact like this without having great people. We want to be the best – to use our leading market positions to deliver a leading performance – and for that, we need the best. Is that you?

You will assist in monthly consolidation and reporting and monitor inter-company reconciliation process as well as drive the solving of inter-company differences. In addition, you will support the implementation of new accounting and reporting guidelines or procedures. We will also look to you to work with colleagues to harmonise and standardise reporting and consolidation processes. In addition you will work collaboratively with your Global Consolidation peers.

As a graduate you will hold an accounting qualification and have experience gained in a consolidation and reporting role. You will have worked with financial management systems, preferably SAP/ MFGPRO but not essential and comfortable delivering monthly closing and reporting processes under tight time pressures. In addition to your technical accounting skills, you have an eye for detail, are a confident communicator and used to presenting information to financial and non-financial colleagues. You will also be the sort of person who is passionate about excellence and delivers on commitments.

At AkzoNobel, we believe we can only grow our business as fast as we grow our people, so if you want to be a Consolidation and Reporting Specialist in a business that will invest in you and give you the opportunity to develop please visit our website via the link.

AkzoNobel. Where your ideas go far.

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