Trainee Financial Accountant- Intern and Graduate opportunities

Saint-Gobain • Full-time • Loughborough, England, United Kingdom • £25,000 - £30,000 / year • 2m ago

‘Making the world a better home’ – Saint-Gobain’s purpose, we have a history spanning more than 350 years and have a responsibility to address the major challenges faced by humanity. We are on a journey to make the world a beautiful and sustainable place to live and have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050!

We have 3 fantastic opportunities to join us as a Trainee Financial Accountant either on your placement year or as a Graduate Financial Accountant with Saint-Gobain where the focus will be to support our manufacturing clients with their accounting and reporting functions.

As a Trainee Financial Accountant with Saint-Gobain the key responsibilities are:

Prepare and post all accruals and journal entries into SAP as agreed with clients
Reconcile sub-ledgers with General Ledger
Perform the fixed asset accounting, reporting and reconciliation process
Finalise month end inter-company reconciliation processes in liaison with AP, CM and AR team members
Prepare monthly and yearly balance justifications and balance sheet reconciliation files
Ensure that all work conforms to current internal control procedures
Populate the group reporting packages with the financial data
Assist in the preparation of periodical declarations such as VAT and PSA etc
Anticipate month end processes to ensure smooth and efficient closing
Respect closing calendar
Assisting with and supporting internal and external audit visits and requirements; including preparation of reports, schedules and procedures

Am I who you are looking for?

First and foremost, we always want to recruit talented people that align well with our values and way of working; we innovate, we collaborate, we’re agile, we act with entrepreneurial spirit, and we’re supportive of and close to our customers. Does this sound like you?

To be suitable for the Trainee Financial Accountant role with Saint-Gobain you need to have:

IT literate (knowledge of MS Office tools particularly Excel & Word)
Good communication skills (both written and verbal)
Ability to work well in a team and on own initiative
Good degree of accuracy & numeric skills
Results oriented with the ability to meet deadlines
Adherence and awareness of internal controls
Ability to learn new systems (training will be given for SAP ERP system and in house reporting tool)

You are assured to be welcomed into a professional and warm environment, where we value all of our employees equally and have a strong focus on their health, safety and wellbeing at all times.

We are holding a Recruitment Day for all roles on the 29th May, please let us know if you are available to attend and if you are applying for the Intern/ Placement position or permanent Graduate role.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

Yearly bonus

Benefits:

Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Employee discount
Free parking
Health & wellbeing programme
On-site parking
Referral programme
Store discount
Work from home

Schedule:

Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

Are you applying for the Placement year/ Internship role or the Graduate role?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Loughborough LE12

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