Liberty IT employs over 650 people who develop a wide range of specialist and enterprise scale applications and provide technical support across the global enterprise for our parent company, Liberty Mutual. Across our two offices in Belfast and Dublin, our teams live and breathe innovation, creativity and commitment to excellence - designing and implementing innovative solutions using both existing and emerging technologies. Combine that with our commitment to providing a great place to work for employees and you have the perfect place to start or grow your career.
Assistant Financial Accountant
Role Purpose & Context
Reporting to the Lead Financial Accountant, this role will assist with the accurate and timely processing of accounts and associated activities across our operations in Belfast and Dublin, feeding into the wider global organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in the preparation of monthly management accounts including month end journals.
- Balance sheet reconciliations and analysis.
- Intercompany reconciliations.
- Accounts Payable administration:
- Monitoring the receipt and issue of purchase orders, ensuring they are correctly authorised and matching these to the subsequent invoices.
- Management of invoice processing including posting invoices to creditors ledger on SAP, ensuring invoices are correctly authorised.
- Vendor statement reconciliations.
- Reconciliation and auditing of staff expenses; on call, out of pocket and per diem claims.
- Monitoring contractor time sheets.
- SAP, Concur and Fieldglass profile maintenance.
- Assist in monitoring and updating the Finance intranet site, including expense policies etc.
- Assist with the year end audit and preparation.
- Assist with the completion of statutory and statistical returns.
- Assist the Lead Financial accountant, Financial Analysts, Finance Generalists and Pay and Benefits Partner with other tasks as necessary.
- Support key stakeholders by providing ad hoc and standard reporting and analysis.
- Participate in and undertake projects or initiatives as directed by the Lead Financial Accountant.
- Identify opportunities to improve methods and procedures and drive plans to realise those opportunities.
The ideal candidate will:
- Be a team player who enjoys working with others to solve problems and share knowledge.
- Have excellent analytical skills and strong attention to detail.
- Address customer needs by following established procedures and involving the right people at the right time.
- Be proactive in their approach, quickly ascertaining how to perform effectively in the face of unfamiliar tasks.
- Seek opportunities to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills on the job.
- Ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Possess strong written and oral communication skills.
- Be confident to engage with different levels of stakeholders, including directors and senior managers.
Required Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience
- Part qualified accountant or Accounting Technician qualified.
- A minimum of four years experience in a similar role.
- Experience working with accounting system(s).
- Experience in reconciliations, posting journals, good understanding of debits and credits.
- Good degree of competency in Microsoft Excel and associated Microsoft packages.
Desired Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience
- Working knowledge of SAP.
- Working knowledge of Concur.
- Evidence of customer / client interaction.
- Experience of working in a globally distributed team.
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development.
Through our Be Flexible policy, our employees can choose their preferred way of working - in office, hybrid or virtual first from the UK or Ireland.
Flexible work patterns, including part-time working hours and compressed working weeks, are available.
