General Accountant

General Accountant

At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions.

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This position reports to

Accounting&Reporting Mgr-Gen. Accounting

Your role and responsibilities

You will also support the preparation of the relevant organization financial reporting, business planning, budgeting, and forecasting and providing information to the management by gathering and summarizing data, preparing reports, and making presentations of findings, analyses, and recommendations.

The work model for the role is: Onsite at our Leeds site.

This role is contributing to the Electrification, Smart Buildings – Emergency Lighting business in Leeds. Main stakeholders are the manufacturing and procurement operations teams.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Assisting in month-end and year-end closing procedures including accruals and reconciliations.
• Reviewing, verifying, and processing incoming invoices and expense reports from vendors and employees and matching invoices with purchase orders, ensuring their accuracy and completeness before initiating payment. Generating regular reports on accounts payable activities, including aging reports, outstanding payments, and cash flow analysis.
• Performing quality checks on financial reporting data, including fluctuations monitoring.
• Assisting in the timely and accurate processing of vendor invoices, ensuring all necessary documentation and approvals are in place.
• Inputting invoice and payment information into the accounting system with a high level of accuracy and assisting in reconciling vendor statements to ensure all outstanding payments are accounted for and resolved promptly.
• Performing analyses of business performance versus plan and proposing improvement actions.

• Ability to demonstrate your experience in a similar role preferable in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of computerized accounting systems and financial reporting software.
• You possess outstanding attention to detail, accuracy and multitasking abilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or Business or equivalent finance qualification.

• Evolve in your career: through trainings and our Open Job Market, your career development continues!
• Benefit from an open and solution-oriented work culture
• Feel empowered: take ownership and drive exciting results in your scope of action

More about us

As part of our dedication to our employees, ABB UK offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Flexible benefits scheme (Includes options to buy/sell holidays, health checks, dental, eye care, gym memberships, cycle to work, gadget discounts and more)
• Open Job Market (internal mobility opportunities, mentorships & access to projects globally)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous employee referral scheme

For the 4th year running ABB UK has been recognised as a Top Employer in UK. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices.

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