Accounts Assistant - Costing Team - Shared Services

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Job description

Job Title - Accounts Assistant - Costing Team - Shared Services

Location - Newcastle Upon Tyne - Hybrid (3 dpw on-site)
Salary - £23 - 25K Per Annum
Benefits - Excellent Benefits

The Client - Curo are collaborating with a Global Organisation, consisting of Designers, Engineers and Consultants, dedicated to sustainable development. They support their clients to solve the most complex challenges, turning their ideas into reality, leveraging the latest technology.

The Candidate - This role would suit a candidate who has worked within a Project & Cost Accounting environment. The successful candidate will have excellent transactional processing experience, with swift and accurate data entry skills. Knowledge of using Oracle, JDE or other ERP Finance Systems would be highly beneficial. The ideal candidate will have an awareness or experience of working in a Finance Shared Service Centre environment.

The Role - Working within the Costing team executing all Project & Cost Accounting processes, globally. The team provides services to all five geographical regions, ensuring the cost is correct so that billing is in turn, correct and consistent. This includes all tasks around ensuring staff time is allocated correctly to the correct project/job number. This will require strong customer focus and working to demanding deadlines. This role would suit a confident Accounts Assistant, with the ability to manage upwards on occasion.

Key responsibilities -

• Management of a regional Costing mailbox and the relationships with key stakeholders in that region. Monitoring mailboxes for requests, and communicating with internal customers, in relation to the queries and requests received.
• Operational ownership of the timesheet system and managing data interfaces.
• Ensuring that the company's staff data is maintained accurately across all Finance Systems. This includes regions, entities, projects, and staff.
• Working within a team of 12, reporting to the Team Leader & Supervisors on day-to-day Project Costing tasks.
• Validating timesheet data change requests and executing journal transfers to reallocate time appropriately.
• Completing monthly reconciliations centering on staff data and staff costs.
• Developing technical expertise in software used within the organizations Finance department, and assisting with any future potential software development.

Requirements -

• Experience of working in a Project & Cost Accounting environment
• Transactional processing experience (data entry) - good level of speed and accuracy
• Knowledge and experience of using Oracle, JDE or other ERP Finance Systems.
• Awareness or experience of working in a Finance Shared Service Centre environment.
• Experience of working within a team environment.
• Excellent attention to detail and good organisation skills.
• Strong customer service focus and good communications skills
• Commitment to Continuous Improvement and Automation

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Curo Services endeavours to respond to all applications, however this may not always be possible during periods of high volume. Thank you for your patience.
Curo Services is a trading name of Curo Resourcing Ltd and acts as an Employment Business for contract and temporary recruitment as well as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.

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