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General Ledger Associate - English Speaker - (M/F) - Lisbon

General Ledger Associate - English Speaker - (M/F) - Lisbon (BBBH568574) Lisboa, Portugal

Kelly Services is currently recruiting a General Ledger Associate, fluent in English and Portuguese, for a client located in Lisbon.

Our client is a global medical products and technologies company focused on therapies for the management of chronic conditions, with leading market positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence, and critical care, and infusion devices.

Purpose of role:


To perform selected accounting and reporting tasks in the general ledger area. The role contributes to ensure proper accounting, reconciliation and reporting for assigned entity(ies).

 

Responsibilities:

  • Perform assigned accounting and reporting activities in line with defined processes, standard operating procedures and work instructions, update process documentations as required
  • Respond to finance queries raised by employees, managers, finance partners & other internal and external stakeholders
  • Escalate issues and concerns to Country Accountant or RTR Team Lead
  • Support migration projects (work shadowing, work instructions creation)
  • Act as a team player, build good relationship with stakeholders
  • Support cross process and cross function cooperation required to achieve overall goals for GBS
  • Secure compliance according to internal procedures and legislation
  • Secure deadlines and assignments are executed according to SLA
  • Act proactively in identification of improvement areas and supports their implementation


Requirements:

  • Master’s degree in Finance/Accounting
  • Minimum 2+ years of overall combined accounting and finance experience
  • Knowledge of Technology: MS Office, SAP is an advantage
  • Languages: English (fluent), other is an advantage
  • Strong communication skills
  • Taking ownership of assigned responsibilities, including self-study/research needed to execute the same
  • Being able to work to tight deadlines and with switching priorities
  • Proactive and creative in terms of improving ways of working
  • Team player

 

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