GL Accountant

Element Materials Technology; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as an Accountant in a rapidly growing global TIC business. This role offers an exciting opportunity to develop your accountancy career while contributing to essential safety and compliance processes. You will be responsible for month-end management accounts, inter-company accounting, and providing support for VAT/statutory reporting. With a focus on teamwork and effective communication, you will thrive in a collaborative environment that values integrity and excellence. This is your chance to make a real impact in a company dedicated to making tomorrow safer than today.

Qualifications

• Degree or professional qualification in accounting beneficial.
• Experience of working in a similar position.
• Good systems and accounting experience essential.

Responsibilities

• Prepare month-end management accounts and reconciliations.
• Support planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
• Provide monthly reporting and analysis to sector businesses.

Skills

Accounting experience

Attention to detail

Good systems experience

Teamwork

Communication skills

Self-starter

Proactive attitude

Ability to challenge accounting treatments

Education

Degree in Accounting

Professional accounting qualification

Tools

D365

Navision

Cognos

Job description

Overview

Element has an opportunity for a Accountant to join our growing team. This is a great opportunity to develop your Accountancy career within a Global TIC business.

Responsibilities

• Month-end management accounts preparation
• Review and posting of accruals & prepayments
• Payroll, sales adjustments
• Review, challenge & posting of finance manager journals
• Review month end reconciliations (incl Net Sales)
• Inter-company accounting for group companies
• Support the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes for European central functions
• Capital projects approval tracking and expenditure reporting
• Provide support to Finance Manager, Grp Tax Manager & UK labs on VAT / statutory reporting as required
• Provide monthly reporting and analysis to Sector businesses and labs as required
• Provide KPI monitoring and reporting for the Reporting team
• Support of internal / external audit processes & ensure an effective control environment

Skills / Qualifications

• Degree or professional qualification in accounting beneficial
• Experience of working in a similar position
• Good systems and accounting experience essential
• D365 experience desirable (although training will be provided)
• Navision / Cognos experience desirable (although training will be provided)
• European accounting experience desirable
• Teamwork and effective communication within a team
• Ability to challenge and question accounting treatments
• Self-starter, works own initiative and proactive
• Self-confident in their own ability and in their accounting knowledge
• Attention to detail especially regarding VAT and GL transactions
• Positive, can-do attitude

Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to 'Make tomorrow safer than today'.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

Diversity Statement

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming "the world's most trusted testing partner".

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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