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Assistant Accountant

Location: 

Paisley, GB

Department:  Finance
Full-time or Part-time:  Full-Time
Job Type:  Employee
Shift:  Hybrid

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet.  More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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Purpose

This is an opportunity to join the Financial Reporting team based out of the Paisley office on a 12-month fixed term contract. In this role you will support the production of management accounts and other financial support to the site finance teams along with the submission of monthly results for group reporting. 

Responsibilities

  • Monthly management accounts: responsible for month end accounting including review of the ledger, preparing inventory reconciliations, calculating accruals, prepayments and adjustments to accurately reflect the business results in consultation with Head Office and Site Finance Teams
  • Group reporting: submission of monthly, half-year and year-end group reporting and disclosures using Cognos within tight deadlines (month end reporting Day 4) and tax packs on an annual basis
  • Balance Sheet reconciliations: preparation of reconciliations for approval, identification and resolution of issues, and ensuring compliance with group policy
  • Audit: provision of information to auditors for group accounts, statutory accounts, and Sarbanes Oxley
  • Mid-month: bank reconciliations, set-up of manual bank payments, VAT reconciliations, ONS Returns, intercompany reconciliations, currency maintenance, payroll journal postings and reconciliations, and other ad-hoc tasks
  • General ledger: month end close processes and reconciliations, account set up, mapping to group reporting system, maintenance of Fixed Asset Registers (US GAAP / IFRS) and Operating Leases Register, and other tasks as required

Skills and Experience

  • Part qualified CA/ACCA/ACMA
  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a management accounts role

 

About Amcor
Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualized sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries.
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