Shared Service Centre Hub Accountant - UK Fixed Assets and Expenses

**Shared Service Centre Hub Accountant MMC Witham, Essex**

Can you work under pressure and to tight deadlines? Are you organised and committed to delivering high quality of work? If so this could be the perfect role for you!

What can you expect?

As a SSC Hub Accountant you will be a pro-active, results led individual who is able to balance multiple deliverables whilst satisfying a strict control environment by retaining the highest standards of governance. Ideally you will have experience in working within a busy shared services function of a similar organisation.

The MMC EMEA accounting operations team supports 16 countries across Europe and forms part of the controllership function that are responsible for ensuring accounting is in adherence to organisation policies, procedures and SOX requirements. The department is supported by an offshore transactional processing team of approximately 100 employees with onshore headcount at around 40. The teams are functionally aligned as follows: People Costs, Fixed Assets & Expenses Overheads, Revenue & Foreign Exchange, Intercompany & Consolidation, Bank reconciliation, Procure to Pay and Cash Control.

In addition to this, the department has involvement in acquisitions and global projects. It supports initiatives for individual career progression and skill expansion.

This role sits within the UK Fixed Assets and Expenses team who are responsible for all activities in relation to accounting for expenses. Tangible and Intangible fixed assets, Payroll accounting, Prepaymentsand General Expenses for the UK/Ireland and Continental Europe entities. Specific responsibilities include preparation of accruals/prepayments, P&L and balance sheetreview and analysis,balance sheet reconciliation review/approval, journal creation and approval, payroll interface validations.

What's in it for you?

A competitive starting salary to plus a comprehensive benefits package to include; generous pension scheme, employee assistance programme, career mobility, employee network groups, volunteer opportunities, and a number of other programmes.

MMC also offers a flexible benefit scheme to allow you to select benefits that are most appropriate for your lifestyle and personal circumstances. For example, these include options to buy additional days' holiday, dental, travel and personal accident insurance, together with a number of staff discounts available in the retail and leisure sectors, such as discounted gym membership.

We will count on you to:

• Production & control review of all balance sheet reconciliations within functional team remit

• Exception reporting and perform checks prior to issuing

• Ensure timely investigation and resolution of any exception items

• Ensure all month-end and quarter-end deliverables are met

• Communicate regularly with offshore counterpart

• To play a lead role in the continuous improvement of business processes

• Record and monitor new tasks through change control process

• Mailbox management

• Attend meetings with managers, colleagues and clients as required.

• Assist with other ad-hoc tasks, projects and initiatives as required.

• Assist auditors and SOX testers.

• Assist with current and future accounting operation transitions

• Delivery of training to Offshore teams

• Journal creation, review and approvals

• Preparation and review of quarterly reporting schedules

• Payroll system interface checking

• Expense accrual preparation and review

• Fixed asset interface checking

• Fixed asset to GL reconciliation and review

• P&L analysis and commentary to the business

What you need to have:

• Part/Qualified ACCA/CIMA (or QBE).

• Advanced skills in Excel V lookups, pivots

• Flexible and team player develops close partnerships with onshore and offshore colleagues

• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines and deliver results to short timescales.

• Previous proven ability to identify areas to improve efficiency, accuracy and analysis and suggest and implement process improvements.

• Exposure to General Ledger Accounting

What makes you stand out:

• Prior experience of Oracle and HFM (preferred but not essential)

• Insurance industry experience would be advantageous but not essential.

• Lean/Six Sigma knowledge.

About Marsh & McLennan

Marsh & McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is the world's leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. The Company's 76,000 colleagues advise clients in over 130 countries. With annualized revenue approaching $17 billion, Marsh & McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses. Marsh advises individual and commercial clients of all sizes on insurance broking and innovative risk management solutions. Guy Carpenter develops advanced risk, reinsurance and capital strategies that help clients grow profitably and pursue emerging opportunities. Mercer delivers advice and technology-driven solutions that help organizations meet the health, wealth and career needs of a changing workforce. Oliver Wyman serves as a critical strategic, economic and brand advisor to private sector and governmental clients. For more information, visit mmc.com, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @mmc_global or subscribe to BRINK.

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