Financial Accountant

Title - Financial Accountant

Location – Dublin, Hybrid working model with 2/3 days in Office

Contract Type – Full Time, Permanent

Reports to – Senior Financial Accountant

Escher Group

Escher powers the world’s first and last mile deliveries, helping Posts connect nearly 1 billion consumers with global ecommerce networks. Postal operators rely on Escher to deliver an enhanced retail and digital customer experience, to activate new revenue streams, and to realize new delivery economics. Learn more at www.eschergroup.com

Overview of role

Escher is looking for a Group Financial Accountant to join its Group finance team in Dublin. The successful candidate will be involved in various accounting activities, including, but not limited to, preparation of financial statements, maintaining accounting records, and ensuring compliance with IFRS.

This role will have exposure to all entities and locations in the Group, Ireland, USA, Canada, UK, Singapore and Malaysia. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date accounting records, including journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations

• Ensure compliance with IFRS and other relevant accounting standards

• Liaise with external auditors during annual audits

• Collaborate with other teams within the finance function to ensure timely and accurate reporting

• Completion of tax returns and filings

• Support the semi-annual internal audits and year-end financial audit activities at the Group and Statutory levels

• Assist with and support month-end close activities

• Ability to work across the department and organization to produce required deliverables for financial & corporate reporting processes

• Support with regulatory filings as required

• Maintain relationships with external service providers

• Assist with daily and monthly administrative duties, along with contributing to project work.

• Support the Senior Group Financial Accountant

• Assist with Ad-hoc projects and other duties as directed

Requirements:

You must be a Qualified Accountant (ACA, Chartered, ACCA) with good technical experience. It's a very collaborative environment, and you must be willing to fall in and help within a strong team environment.

• At least 1 year years of experience in financial accounting, ideally in a multi-national group environment
• Strong technical accounting skills with a thorough understanding of IFRS
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to work in deadline-oriented position and environment
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Thorough working knowledge of NetSuite and Microsoft Office, in particular MS Excel
• Experience with statutory tax reporting’s and filings
• Organized individual with the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining high performance standards.
• Experience with IFRS 15 Revenue Recognition and how to apply to different contracts
• Motivated self-starter who is detailed, results and process oriented.
• Self-motivated and willing to work as part of a team as well as on their own initiative.
• A willingness to learn and develop professionally
• Experience with US Tax

Why Join Escher?

Do you want to join a team that is enhancing the customer experience for over 1 billion people and digitally transforming postal operations on a global scale? Our customers are among the largest postal operators and couriers on the planet and our purpose built-customer engagement platform is helping them to profitably engage customers anywhere, anytime.

At Escher, you’ll be part of a global team with employees on four continents supporting customers from across 35 countries. Here, people truly are our greatest strength, and we mean it. At Escher, you’ll have the support of an experienced leadership team and a group of dedicated employees that have been helping postal operators redefine customer engagement for over 30 years.

What We Have to Offer

Escher offers a competitive compensation package, and free coffee and snacks, and so much more! Most importantly, a career at Escher is one that is both rich and rewarding with many opportunities and room for growth. This is truly a unique opportunity to be part of an exceptional team, helping to transform some of the biggest organizations in the world, and influencing the future of postal operations. If you’re up for the challenge, we want to hear from you!

Escher is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative actions and measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.