The Junior General Ledger (GL) Accountant will be assisting the GL accounting team with day-to-day accounting activities. This will include posting and processing journal entries, maintaining accounts, and supporting preparation of financial statements and annual audit for period end closes. You are expected to have basic knowledge of accounting principles and internal financial controls to complete these activities.
You will report directly to the GL Team Lead and work closely with GL accounting team to ensure accurate and timely delivery of GL accounting activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Support GL accounting activities
- Assist with posting and processing journal entries to ensure all financial transactions are recorded
- Assist with account reconciliations
- Assist in preparing financial statements for reporting purposes
- Assist in period-end close activities in a timely and accurate manner in line with fiscal close calendar
- Raise any issues or queries requiring judgement and expertise with other GL accounting team members
- Support GL accounting team on any other ad hoc requests
- Ensure GL accounting team compliance
- Perform prescribed GL accounting activities within accounting principles and regulatory requirements and ensure all transactions adhere to them
- Ensure period end close activities are compliant with the fiscal close calendar, ensuring adequate time for collaboration with various teams impacted
- Ensuring all R2R controls are adhered to and documented appropriately
- Apply knowledge to accurately record all financial transactions and maintain supporting documentation
- Collaborate with others
- Establish relationships and credibility with GL accounting team as well as cross-functional teams
- Collaborate with other SSC process delivery teams to exchange information, as required, and support process improvement where dependencies may exist
Skills & Experience
- Strong English language skills with 2- 4 Years of experience.
- Working MS Excel skills with a proven aptitude to interpret financial data
- Basic understanding and enforcement of finance business processes, accounting policies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant SSC operations
- Basic knowledge of core finance systems, ERP and related specialty functional systems, frameworks, and functionality
- Basic understanding of accounting principles, procedures, and methods e.g., accrual, obligation, and cost methods
- Ability to complete accounting tasks/procedures at a basic level with limited supervision
- Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with a proactive approach, accustomed to working towards tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality of work
