**Overview of the Senior Accountant Role**
The Global General Ledger (GL) team is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and consistency of the General Ledger. The main duty of the role is to oversee GL processes, with a focus on standardizing, automating, and managing exceptions.
This position requires overall accounting responsibility for multiple entities, including Cook France. It also demands significant experience, project management skills, accounting knowledge, and effective communication abilities.
**Responsibilities**
* Overall accounting responsibility for multiple European and North American Entities.
* Tasks may include working with local auditors, posting journal entries, analyzing accounts, doing tax returns, and other Statutory returns as required.
* Manage Projects and Tasks within General Ledger (GL) to improve our processes and systems, including Chart of Accounts, Fixed Assets, Accruals, Prepaids, Balance Sheet Reconciliation, External audit, and Coding.
* Responsibility for project allocations of staff cost globally.
* Partner with Business Analysis team, Statutory team, and other finance teams to ensure monthly/annual reporting is accurate.
* Analyze GL Entries & resolve root cause issues to ensure GL is Right First Time.
* Write and use GL Reports through SAP Business Intelligence system.
* Training, Support, and Maintenance of our Chart of Accounts.
* Support leadership in the interpretation of financial data, tracking financial/operational objectives, and facilitating the financial reporting, planning, and forecasting process.
* Assist with other related Finance tasks as requested.
* Ensure that Cook's Code of Conduct is considered in all business matters carried out on Cook's behalf.
**Requirements**
* Minimum 5 years continuous improvement/project management/analysis experience working for a multi-national required.
* Shared Service experience beneficial.
* Accounting qualification is a requirement (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
* Exercise strong problem-solving skills during day-to-day activities.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Ability to interact effectively with people at all levels and functions across the business.
* Ability to work well within a team environment, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability as required, meeting team objectives.
* Microsoft Office proficiency (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word).
* Second European language an advantage.
* Business Intelligence report writing experience beneficial.
**About Cook Limerick**
Cook Medical has been in Limerick since 1996, starting out with labeling and distribution, and steadily growing and evolving to include manufacturing, centralized customer support, and collaborative product development in the Innovation Centre.
The Ireland location is our European headquarters and houses our EMEA Support Centre.
This location currently employs more than 1000 people and manufactures 10% of Cook's products for global markets.
We offer various employee benefits, including a Hybrid Work Model, Company-sponsored Defined Contribution pension scheme, Medical Health Insurance cover for you and your immediate family, Life Assurance and Income Protection cover, Educational Assistance, Performance-related Bonus, Extensive health & wellness program, Fully equipped gym on site, 39-hour week with flexible start & finish times, Paid time off to participate in volunteer activities, Free parking, Subsidized restaurant, Sports & Social club.