Job Description

Company Description

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.


Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.

JOB PURPOSE


The primary purpose of this role is to deliver a 3 month short-term project to complete the full historic reconciliation of the Group's employee cost balance sheet control accounts and implement a new process for the accurate and efficient reconciliation of the balances going forward.



PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

Accurate reconciliation of the Group's historic employee cost balance sheet control accounts Design and implementation of new reconciliation process for employee costs Reconciliation of other balances as identified during the contract

Project scope:


1. Full reconciliation of the 3 payroll control accounts


2. Proposal of adjustment required to adjust all 3 accounts across all companies to a balance that is supportable by payroll records and any other third-party evidence


3. Design of monthly reconciliation process for the 3 control accounts to support a smooth transition of the payroll R2R monthly activity to the Hub (not TOM related as already in place as required to pick up Lindsay work which could not be absorbed by the UK team)


4. Full reconciliation of the bonus and commission control accounts


5. Proposal of adjustment required to agree balance to supporting calculations


6. Design of monthly reconciliation process



KEY INTERFACES

R2R team Group Finance team HR and payroll teams

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS


We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Experience

Experience in performing high quality balance sheet reconciliations Qualified accountant

Desirable

NetSuite ERP experience

Skills and Knowledge

Strong attention to detail Good knowledge of excel Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written Ability to build relationships with other team members and departments Able to resolve queries in a timely manner The ability to work to targets, achieving objectives and meeting strict deadlines Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written

Behaviours and Characteristics

Enthusiastic, proactive and keen to work on own initiative as well as part of a team Passionate about the continuous improvement of processes Demonstrate an appropriate level of professional scepticism to ensure complete and accurate delivery of financial information Results, deadline and quality driven. Use own initiative to identify problems and deliver solutions to meet deadlines Confidence and desire to take responsibility for deliverables Excellent attention to detail Strong time management skills and the ability to meet and/or exceed deadlines. Ability to manage conflict, complexity and challenging targets.

Additional Information

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It's this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common - and they form our Fastmarkets values.


Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

METRICS DRIVEN.

We use insights to improve our customers' experience and our business performance

ACCOUNTABLE.

We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done

GROWTH MINDSET

. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency

INCLUSIVE.

We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.

CUSTOMER CENTRIC.

We are customer-centric in all that we do

COLLABORATIVE.

We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You've read a little about us - now it's over to you!

If you like what you've read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it's time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it's used to determine whether or not you'll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we'll ask you on the day.


It's vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you're great.