Vacancy: GL Accountant
Fixed term: 12-month contract
Location: Skopje, North Macedonia
As a GL Accountant you will report to the Plant Accounting Services Manager and is responsible for all Plant Transaction Accounting, Account maintenance and Trial Balance preparation for a defined set of GL accounts. The GL accountant is a key role alongside the Metal Accountant supporting the Accounting Services Manager in preparing an accurate TB, ensuring all transactions are captured, work closely with AR, AP (SSC) etc and ensures controls and accounting policies are applied.
Your responsibilities:
- Responsible for preparing monthly Trial Balance including preparation of journals for management adjustments, fixed assets and depreciation, capital projects, and intercompany allocations.
- Independently prepare general ledger and fixed asset reconciliations.
- Establish and maintain Fixed Asset policies and procedures with support from Plant Financial Accountant.
- Establish and maintain effective accounting policies working with the Plant Compliance & Control and Sector Controlling team ensuring they are effectively operationalised.
- Record capital project spending and provide project transactional reporting to enable monitoring of capital projects.
- Coordinate the stocktake process with the Supply Chain team and manage the stocktake reconciliation process to ensure physical stocks tie in with the book balances, in line with a defined policy for inventory management as agreed with the Plant Financial Accountant
- Responsible for managing GL transactions for product costs working with the Plant Insights & Decision Support team to source transactional data.
- Ensure timely reports are available from SAP and other spreadsheets for management information purposes as and when requested.
- Create, maintain and close GL account codes, project account codes and fixed asset master data files.
Requirements for the role:
- University degree qualification
- Professional accounting qualification
- Еxperience embedding compliance to accounting policies and controls in a global organisation
- Accounting Standards Ability to apply knowledge of applicable Accounting Standards and Cost
- Significant and substantial experience within Finance function preferably in the manufacturing environment
- Ability to work collaboratively and provide appropriate challenge, insight and influence through process knowledge, often under time pressure
- Good understand of product costing in the context of Financial Accounting
- Microsoft Office knowledge
What to expect from us:
- Competitive salary
- Private health insurance
- Discretionary annual bonuses & salary reviews
- Incentivized referral bonus program
- Hybrid working
- Team building events
- Professional development budget (Certifications, e-learning platforms and conferences)
- Psychological Health Support Program (Elements and other wellbeing initiatives)
- Wellbeing support
How to apply:
All the internal candidates should inform their line manager before applying.
If you have the necessary skills and experience to join our team, please apply on the link below:
https://matthey.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Ext_Career_Site/job/Skopje---MK/GL-Accountant_R-012098-1
https://matthey.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Ext_Career_Site/job/Skopje---MK/GL-Accountant_R-012098-1
Closing date for applicants: 30th January 2025
