Accounting Officer
St Helier, JerseyHybridFull-time
AI Summary
An Accounting Officer responsible for financial accounting and reporting at JT, with a focus on fixed assets, capital expenditure, reconciliations, month-end reporting, and audit support.
About this role
Are you building your accounting career and looking for an opportunity to expand your experience in areas such as reconciliations, fixed assets and month-end reporting?
As an Accounting Officer, you'll be part of our Financial Accounting team, playing a key role in financial accounting and reporting across JT. With a particular focus on capital expenditure accounting and fixed assets, this role offers the opportunity to build strong core accounting skills while helping to ensure our financial information remains timely, reliable and well controlled.
You'll work closely with colleagues across the business to contribute to monthly financial reporting, maintain accurate financial records and help ensure effective financial controls are in place. You'll gain exposure to a broad range of financial accounting activities, including capital expenditure accounting, fixed assets, reconciliations, month-end reporting and audit support.
We foster a collaborative and inclusive working environment where reliability, attention to detail and teamwork are valued. At JT, you'll be encouraged to develop your skills, contribute to continuous improvement and take pride in delivering accurate, high-quality work as part of a supportive and experienced team.
JT is committed to building a diverse and inclusive working environment and JT Family. We will ensure that all individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in job applications, interviews, onboarding processes and beyond. Should you require any support or assistance in making your application, please contact us at hrinbox@jtglobal.com.
Key Responsibilities
- Complete journal adjustments required to ensure completeness and accuracy of monthly results
- Administer the Capex governance process, ensuring appropriate approvals, controls and documentation are completed.
- Completion of key balance sheet controls monthly in a timely manner and investigation of variances to resolution with the business as required and timely
- Administer the Capex governance process, ensuring that all required documentation in line with policy
- Support the business on queries on results and investigate as appropriate
- Liaise with the wider business to ensure that they are aware of financial processes and
- timelines are followed
- Monitor key details for approved capex projects on the asset database and ensure that it is kept up to date by asset owners/project managers as the projects progress and timelines/costs change
- Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations to reconcile cost, additions, disposals and net book value between the General Ledger and the Fixed Asset Register
- Support the Financial Accounting team to drive improved financial control across all areas including capex and reporting
- Influence project managers and asset owners to ensure that financial requirements are met at all stages of the capex lifecycle
Benefits
- 24 days holiday
- Health & Dental Insurance
- Pension Scheme
- Bonus Scheme
- Fully discounted staff services or cash allowance in lieu
- Professional Development
- Recharge Days
JT provide colleagues with an opportunity to embrace flexibility to work the hours that suit them in a location of their choice – office, home or further afield under our Hybrid Working guidelines.
Through our hybrid working initiative we have diversified the ways in which we recruit, which also means that we are now able to support posts in major global locations. The benefits that are listed above are an example of those that we provide in our key locations, if you are applying from outside of these areas, please note that your compensation package might look a little different.
Our main priority is colleague wellbeing, and we hope this offers greater opportunity for a work life balance. We aim to offer this approach to all colleagues across the business, but we recognise that there are certain roles that will need to work in a specific way due to their nature, such as our colleagues working in engineering, our contact centres and our retail outlets. We are actively working with our management teams to increase flexibility wherever we can.
Through our hybrid working initiative we have diversified the ways in which we recruit, which also means that we are now able to support posts in major global locations. The benefits that are listed above are an example of those that we provide in our key locations, if you are applying from outside of these areas, please note that your compensation package might look a little different.
Our main priority is colleague wellbeing, and we hope this offers greater opportunity for a work life balance. We aim to offer this approach to all colleagues across the business, but we recognise that there are certain roles that will need to work in a specific way due to their nature, such as our colleagues working in engineering, our contact centres and our retail outlets. We are actively working with our management teams to increase flexibility wherever we can.
Skills
Asset DatabaseAudit SupportCapExFinancial ControlsFixed AssetsGeneral LedgerMonth-end ReportingReconciliations
