Accountant GA

Overview

GA Accountant (Banking UK)

Who we are and what we create?

We're Kingfisher, a team made up of over 82,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that's where you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

You no longer need to relocate to get the benefits of working in Kraków.
But you can stick to your routine if you want to.
Join Kingfisher and work remotely.

We also offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
• Life insurance financed by the employer
• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
• Wellbeing programme for employees
• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
• Employee referral programme

• Uploading and processing bank statements
• Posting cash reports from stores and reconciling daily sales
• Performing journal entry processing
• Reconciling dedicated GL accounts, explaining and resolving unrecognized items / balances
• Initiating required action on incorrect allocated items
• Ensuring month-end processes are completed accurately and according to month and year end closing schedule
• Preparing regular and ad hoc reports
• Communicating with clients on a regular basis, ensuring timely and accurate responses to any client queries
• Ensuring operational and design effectiveness of the controls over financial reporting within areas of responsibility
• Ensuring proper company policies are being followed
• Supporting audit as required
• Ensuring that developed KPIs and SLAs are continuously met
• Supporting new colleagues in the onboarding process
• Working for European companies within the Group
• Performing other related tasks assigned by Team Manager

• Relevant University degree (Accounting or Finance preferred) or equivalent education
• Minimum 2 years of work experience in accounting
• Very good spoken & written English (B2)
• Very good MS Excel knowledge
• Analytical skills and good problem solving (attention to details)
• Being able to work within tight operational deadlines and priorities
• Good problem-solving skills and cooperation attitude
• Knowledge of SAP accounting system (considered an asset)