Assistant Accountant (12-Month Fixed Term Contract) (3880)

About GBG

GBG is the leading expert in global digital identity. We combine our powerful technology, the most accurate data coverage and our talented team to deliver award-winning location intelligence, identity verification and fraud prevention solutions.

With over 30 years’ experience, we bring together a team of over 1,250 dedicated experts with local industry insight from around the world to make it easy for businesses to identify and verify customers and locations, protecting everyone, everywhere from fraud.

About the team

Finance, APAC

Our finance team is central to the success of the business. Our aim is to proactively drive business value through informed and insightful decision making. We work in partnership with the business and are agile and responsive to business needs whilst maintaining a transparent system of effective standards, processes and controls. To support this goal, we strive to have the best highly engaged finance professionals in our team. We’re on an exciting journey, and we have the strategies in place to get us to our destination. Supported by our APAC Finance Director and APAC Financial Controller, the successful candidate will be joining a highly effective, collaborative and dynamic team that values quality, accuracy, transparency, trust, collaboration and continuous improvement. Our team culture is supportive and open, with a strong emphasis on knowledge-sharing and professional growth.

The Role

Reporting to the APAC Financial Controller, the successful candidate will be supporting the APAC Finance Team in activities including (but not limited to); assisting with daily accounting tasks, preparing journal entries, supporting month end reporting and maintaining accurate financial records

What you will do

• Daily receipting of bank transactions and ensuring complete and accurate allocations.
• Assist in the monthly reporting requirements
• Assist in the preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Process of purchase invoices through the purchase ordering (PO) system to ensure that invoices are coded and processed correctly and paid on a timely basis
• Other ad hoc financing tasks, e.g. set up of new vendor and customers into the accounting system.
• Ensuring the integrity, accuracy and completeness of financial data in the accounting system.
• Liaise with broader finance team on cross region recharges.
• Identify and recommend improvements to finance operations processes and procedures.

Requirements

• Trainee/Part-qualified accountant with a good knowledge of accounting standards.
• Skills or Experience in using Microsoft Business Central is preferred.
• Someone who is confident and self-motivated with a true passion for this type of role.
• The ability to autonomously plan your workload and focus on the right priorities
• The ability to communicate effectively with internal departments to resolve any queries
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good computer literacy skills – particularly Excel
• High attention to detail and strong analytical skills
• A highly motivated individual, that brings energy and confidence, that is target driven and able to work as part of a team
• You will be able to demonstrate a positive, engaging, hard-working approach and exhibit the company values
• Someone who seeks to maximise opportunities; i.e. challenges ways of working, sets and adopts regional practices, seeks and provides information and clarification.  Proactively suggesting and supporting improvements and efficiency

Behaviours we'd like to see

Benefits

We have a vision to have the best and most engaged team members in the industry. People matter at GBG, they make us who we are. Every team member across all our locations makes a difference, everyone has something to contribute. Maybe you too could make a difference.

As part of our commitment to our team and flexible working approach, we have created a Work When and Where You Want Policy to give our team members choice and empowerment, and to support a balance in work and home life. Please ask your Talent Attraction Specialist for more information on this and our Family Friendly policy if you want to find out more!

Next steps

If you’re interested, please apply! We’re looking to hire the best and most engaged people into our business and we’ll make an offer once we’ve found that person.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Specialist if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to [email protected] and we’ll be in touch.

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