Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) is an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader serving millions of customers and patients every day, with a 170-year heritage of caring for communities. WBA Digital and IT Solutions Ireland Ltd (WBA D&ITS) is designed to support innovation in healthcare technology with the agility to respond quickly to WBA’s operational needs through a 24/7 ‘follow the sun’ model. WBA D&ITS optimizes pharmacy software platform operations by centrally managing selected digital pharmacy products.
Our people are the reason for our success, and our focus is to scale and grow our Dublin office, simultaneously delivering work for Walgreens. We believe in hiring great people, and we want to ensure everyone has the best possible work experience every day. Together we strive to deliver "More joyful lives through better health!
We are looking for a Financial Accountant to join our team on a fix-term contract to cover Maternity leave. The successful candidates will be reporting to the Finance Lead. They will be responsible for preparing all accounting and controllership matters, including annual statutory reporting, for ensuring that monthly accounting is completed promptly and accurately. In this role, you will be working closely with various business leaders, financial and accounting teams, and other internal and external stakeholders.
This is a hybrid position based in our Dublin 2 offices.
What you will do:
Liaise with the outsourced Accounts Payable team to ensure the timely and accurate processing and
payments of invoices.
Raise Po’s for vendors when applicable.
Maintain relationships with certain key vendors and the ability to resolve/dispute any discrepancies
that may occur.
Prepare regular balance sheet reconciliations, reconcile bank balances and other financial controls to
ensure robust and reliable financial information.
Support preparing and filing VAT and other tax returns to meet strict deadlines.
Help with preparing regular forecasts of expenses and liaise with various team members from other parts of the business.
Prepare, review and process journals; calculate and justify relevant accruals, and prepayments.
Assist with the month-end process for various business entities within the business.
Assist in the review of variances from actuals to budget on a monthly/quarterly basis.
Assist with training employees, and maintaining concur system (the company’s internal travel system).
Statutory Accounts – prepare the working papers to support account balances and liaise with external auditors as needed.
Ensure signing of accounts is completed within the deadline.
Liaise with internal audits when required.
Ensure compliance with all regulatory and statutory requirements and company policies.
Assist the Senior Finance Manager & Finance Director in any other duties required on an ongoing basis.
Any other ad-hoc duties as required, such as projects within the business.
What will make you successful:
You will be experienced with:
Microsoft suite with Excel skills at an advanced level.
FRS102 and US GAAP.
Technical accounting.
….. have:
ACA, ACCA, CIMA (or equivalent) qualification.
At least 3 years experience in a similar role.
Relevant business experience.
Knowledge of SAP system (not essential but beneficial).
Good communication skills and a natural ability to liaise with all levels across the group and integrate well as part of a team.
...and be able to:
Handle and deliver change.
Work to tight deadlines and to schedule work according to the time available is essential.
Work on own initiative and deliver high-quality work.
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
WBA Technology Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, family status, disability, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality or ethnic origin.
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