General Ledger Accountant

Abbott Laboratories; Galway; On-site; EUR 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company in Galway seeks a finance professional to assist with financial reporting and analysis. Responsibilities include preparing financial statements and reconciliations, ensuring compliance with policies, and collaborating with internal teams. Ideal candidates have a degree, relevant experience, and strong communication skills. Opportunities for growth in a multinational environment are available.

Qualifications

• 0-5 years relevant experience – preferably with Shared Service Centre and multinational corporation background.
• Able to understand and summarise financial data into high-quality, accurate summaries.

Responsibilities

• Assist in preparation of monthly financial reports.
• Review and reconcile inter-company accounts.
• Provide cost information to management as required.

Skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Strong computer skills (especially MS Office)

Ability to work alone

Fluency in a European language

Education

Third Level Degree or equivalent

Accounting Qualification – ACA, ACCA, CIMA

Tools

SAP/Oracle or other major ERP Systems

Job description

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Galway

Abbott in Galway serves as the international hub for Abbott's Rapid Diagnostics business, which delivers annually more than 2 billion tests. As the global leader in point-of-care diagnostics, Abbott offers the broadest portfolio of best-in-class rapid tests, services, and handheld devices across all healthcare settings: the lab, the clinic, remote healthcare outposts, retail outlets, the patient's bedside and at home. Our industry-leading near patient tests and services are unmatched across key health and therapeutic areas, including: infectious disease, cardiometabolic & informatics, toxicology and consumer diagnostics.

One of the key functions in Galway is Global Business Services, which provides number of shared services activities across finance, purchasing, quality, technical and customer services for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Various global and EMEA commercial and operational management teams across our infectious disease and cardiometabolic businesses are also based in Galway, overseeing the supply of millions of rapid tests from HIV to diabetes to COVID-19, to patients in many regions across the world.

Purpose of the job

• Assisting in the preparation of Monthly Financial Reports, Annual Financial Statements and any other internal or external reports required, ensuring that they are completed in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.

• Assisting in transition of GL functions both into and out of the SSC.

• Developing new and streamline existing processes and systems as required to ensure more efficient delivery of value add information to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Bei an effective team player who will drive efficiency and continuous improvement throughout the department.

Major Responsibilities

• Preparation of monthly financial reports, ensuring they are completed in a timely, accurate and efficient manner:

• Preparation, analysis and posting of journals at month end;

• Preparation and analysis of balance sheet reconciliations at month end;

• Calculation, posting and analysis of monthly accruals and prepayments, ensuring that all items are accurately captured;

• Review and reconciliation of inter-company accounts, involving communication with other Abbott Galway business locations worldwide;

• Preparation of multi-currency bank reconciliations;

• Preparation of variance analysis and standard cost updates as required;

• Provide cost information to management and other departments as required.

• Support in transition of functions to other locations into the SSC.

• Collaboration with external audit staff for periodic year end review procedures and local statutory audits as required.

• Provision of input on local finance policies and procedures ensuring ongoing compliance for all accounting and finance operations.

• Participation in ongoing policy and control environment development to ensure compliance with applicable internal control regulations.

• Enhancement of existing processes and development of new ones to ensure the most efficient completion of duties.

Education & Competencies Required:

• Third Level Degree or equivalent.

• 0-5 years relevant experience – preferably with Shared Service Centre and multinational corporation background.

• SAP/Oracle or other major ERP Systems experience is desirable.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential.

• Able to work alone to understand and summarise financial data into high quality, accurate and usable summaries.

• Strong computer skills especially MS Office.

• Fluency in a European language an advantage.

• Accounting Qualification – ACA, ACCA, CIMA.